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Kanpur: City Health Officer Dr Amit Singh said that tenders could not be held due to the code of conduct.

However, he added that the company engaged in the Municipal Corporation's panel tender has been entrusted with the task of cleaning the drains from May 4 to June 30 this year.

He made it clear that tenders could not be called due to the code of conduct. But the company has been entrusted with the task of cleaning the drains. 

Tapi; 5 May 2023 (UMMN): 22-year-old Mohammed Ameen Arif Anjum, a resident of Malegaon in Maharashtra’s Nashik district, was sentenced to life in prison by a sessions court at Vyara in Tapi district in Gujarat for “illegally transporting cows”

Kanpur: As the civic elections comes near, the talk about the different political parties contestants goes all around.

The BJP has reportedly fielded its as many as 17 candidates in the Muslim dominated wards in the city for the first time.

Strangely enough all the male candidates are pinning hopes on the women voters in all these Wards.

Some said why has the BJP not thought of extending tickets to women candidates?

Issues like triple talaq, general status are said to have been raised in an influential way in the local polls.

Kanpur: Plans are afoot to prepare wholly a new lawn tennis court at the Green Park stadium here.

With the construction of a new lawn tennis court at Green Park stadium, the tennis players will have to complete their dreams of improving in the popular tennis game.

This will help the city's tennis players to get another high-quality facility to practice and prove their playing skills.

There are also considerations to provide comprehensive lawn tennis training to aspiring or budding local players at the new tennis court.

02 May 2023; MEMO: Egypt's Grand Mufti, Dr Shawki Allam, embarked on a six-day official visit to India yesterday, as part of efforts to enhance cultural ties and interfaith dialogue.

NEW DELHI, May 2 (Xinhua) -- Four people were charred to death and seven others suffered burns early Tuesday after a fire broke out inside a slum in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, police said.

The fire broke out near Ramdayalu railway station in Muzaffarpur district, about 70 km north of Patna, the capital city of Bihar.

"In a devastating fire today at a slum here four people were killed and seven others suffered burns," a police officer in Muzaffarpur said. "The injured were immediately removed to Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH) for treatment."

New Delhi, May 1 (PTI) Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Monday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to go to Jantar Mantar and listen to the "mann ki baat" of protesting women wrestlers, saying that such a step would show that the PM is willing to understand their pain.

Sibal, a senior advocate, has represented the wrestlers in the Supreme Court. His remarks come a day after the 100th episode of Modi's "Mann ki Baat" radio programme was broadcast.

Thane, May 1 (PTI) Two more bodies were recovered on Monday from the debris of a two-storey building which collapsed in Bhiwandi town of Maharashtra's Thane district, raising the death toll to eight, officials said.

The work of clearing the debris was underway for the third day, they said.

The building, which housed godowns on the ground and first floors and four families on the top floor, collapsed at 1.45 pm on Saturday at Wardhaman Compound in Valpada of Mankoli area.

Jamkhandi (K'taka), Apr 30 (PTI) Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Sunday referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks about verbal abuse, saying one has to take such attacks in their stride in public life and asked him to learn from Rahul Gandhi, who "is ready to take a bullet for the sake of the country".

Targeting the Congress over its president Mallikarjun Kharge's "venomous snake" barb at him, Modi on Saturday said till now the party and its leaders had hurled different types of abuses at him 91 times.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Eleven people died and four more were hospitalized after a gas leak Sunday in northern India’s Punjab state, local media reported.

The incident occurred at an industrial area in Ludhiana city, but the source of the gas leak is still unclear, police told the Press Trust of India news agency.

India’s National Disaster Response Force sealed off the densely populated area and evacuated residents.

Authorities were trying to ascertain the type of gas in the leak, PTI quoted disaster response officials as saying.