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Kanpur: Income Tax sleuths on early Friday morning conducted raids at the residence of a neurosurgeon and his hospital here, sources said.

According to the news, IT department teams of reached hospital at Kakadeo area. The neurosurgeon Dr Raghavendra Gupta works at this hospital. The teams also arrived at his residence in Swaroop Nagar locality, as reported.

Dr Gupta is also a Professor at Ganesh Shanker Vidyarthi Medical College here.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Four months after India announced its “net-zero” target at the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow, the country has yet to submit its targets for cutting greenhouse emissions, underscoring the difficulty of overhauling energy policy amid a growing population.

When asked about the delay during an unrelated event in the capital New Delhi on Tuesday, Indian environment minister Bhupender Yadav downplayed it, saying that several ministries were still discussing the matter to chart out a roadmap.

Kanpur: The IIT Centre of Excellence (CoE)  has developed the Lucknow-based Future Crime Research Foundation.

It is working to develop a first-of-its-kind AlI-powered big data search engine to aid policing.

The search engine, according to officials, intends to make the investigation and policing process more efficient.

It will integrate data from all the key stakeholders to create a search engine that will help in predictive policing, crime mapping and analysis apart from the other services, they said.

New Delhi, Mar 3 (PTI) The Indian Air Force said its four evacuation flights with 798 Indians from the Romanian capital Bucharest, Hungary's Budapest and Polish city Rzeszow landed at the Hindon airbase on Thursday morning.

Its first flight carrying 200 people from Bucharest landed at 1.30 am. The second flight brought back 210 Indians from Budapest on Thursday morning.

A little while after the second, the IAF's third evacuation flight arrived at the airbase from Rzeszow with 208 Indians.

Gurugram, Mar 2 (PTI) A man allegedly lured a 16-year-old girl of his village under the Farrukhnagar police station area on the pretext of giving her a ride in his car and raped her in the vehicle, police said on Wednesday.

Accused Sanjay alias Chhota called out the girl sleeping in her room from the window and took her away in his car and dropped her before a school gate in the village, police said.

New Delhi, Mar 3 (PTI) Citing the academic journal Science, Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday said the official number of deaths due to COVID-19 in the country is suspect.

The reputed journal estimates that the Covid toll in India between "1-6-2020 and 1-7-2021 was 3,200,000 - eight times the official death toll of 400,000", Chidambaram said on Twitter.

"Of these deaths, 2,700,000 occurred in the months of April, May and June 2021," he added.

New Delhi, Mar 3 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said Make in India is the need of the hour and appealed to the industry to reduce dependence on imports and boost domestic manufacturing.

He urged the industry to take challenges and make efforts to cut imports of goods that can be manufactured in India.

"Today, the world is looking at India as a manufacturing powerhouse," Modi said while addressing DPIIT's webinar on 'Make in India for the World'.

Kanpur: A lineman got electrocuted nearly a week ago (February 27). He reportedly succumbs to his injuries on Wednesday.

 A video statement was given before his death and accused his seniors of keeping the line running on the electricity pole even after convincing him of carrying a shutdown

The relatives of the deceased have accused the officers of putting the lineman on the front of the casualty.

Lakhan Dwivedi, who lived in the Barra area, was a lineman in the electricity department. On February 27, his engineers had mounted him on a pole to fix a fault.

Kanpur: Taking cognizance of the alleged EVM tampering matter, Kanpur Nagar DM issued a clarification.

He said, "On 1 March, two persons tried to enter the outer wall of the Bilhaur Strong room, who were caught by the CRPF personnel and handed over to the local police for questioning."

"The security incharge then wanted to check the footage from the CCTV operator, who was then present with the CRPF personnel to show him the footage," the DM said.

New Delhi, Mar 2 (PTI) With the Russia-Ukraine war roiling financial markets globally, the government may defer the mega IPO of LIC and wait for an opportune time to get the maximum value of its holding in the state-owned insurance behemoth, sources said.

"It's a full blown war now so we will have to assess the situation for going ahead with the LIC IPO," a government source said.