Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway: 7 killed, 4 injured in head-on collision between two cars

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, June 29 (UNI) Seven people were killed and four others seriously injured in a head on collision between two cars near Kadavanchi village in Jalna district, Marathawada, Maharashtra on Friday night, Police officials said on Saturday. According to the sources, the unfortunate incident occurred around 2300 hours, on the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi expressway last…

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Dormitory fire in Moscow suburb kills 5

Moscow, June 29 (UNI) A fire erupted in a dormitory in Balashikha, a Moscow suburb, leaving five people dead, local media reported on Saturday. “As a result of the fire in the dormitory on Keramicheskaya Street, five people have died. Three have been rescued and are currently undergoing resuscitation, and 10 people have been evacuated,”…

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Conservative Jalili outpacing reformist Pezeshkian in Iran Elections- EC

Tehran, June 29 (UNI) Former nuclear negotiator conservative Saeed Jalili is outpacing his reformist rival ex-health minister Masoud Pezeshkian in Iran’s presidential elections, according to a preliminary vote count, the country’s election commission, located in the Islamic Republic’s Interior Ministry, said. “A total of 8,379,341 ballots have been counted. Saeed Jalili is gaining 3,505,191 votes,…

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Sr Cong leader Dharmapuri Srinivas passes away

Hyderabad, June 29 (UNI) Senior Congress party leader and former Rajya Sabha member Dharmapuri Srinivas (DS) passed away at his residence in Jubilee Hills in the early hours of Saturday. He was 76 and is survived by his two sons, Sanjay, who served as the Mayor of Nizamabad city, and Arvind, who is the Nizamabad…

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Child care institutions will get regular grants

Bhopal: Women and Child Development Minister Nirmala Bhuria gave instructions to immediately provide grant money to the childcare institutions operated under Mission Vatsalya. She asked the department to list all such institutions that have been recognized for more than two or three years and are running the institution without any grant and instructed to present…

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Tribal students will get free JEE, NEET and CLAT coaching

Bhopal: Tribal Affairs department will provide free coaching to tribal students of Madhya Pradesh with the aim of increasing their educational participation in higher educational institutions. The department has created the ‘Akansha Yojana’ to prepare tribal students for national-level competitive examinations in the area of medical, engineering, and law (JEE, NEET, and CLAT). It is…

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Maha Budget: Sops for farmers, women; tax on fuel cut

Mumbai, June 28 (UNI) Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday presented the state Budget in the Assembly, offering incentives to farmers, women, the poor and the youth with focus on appeasing all sections of society ahead of elections in October. In an attempt to appease the middle class, which often…

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