The Odisha Vigilance has arrested the deputy director of Mines, Talcher in Angul district on the charges of possessing disproportionate assets to the tune of Rs 5 crore which exceeds his legal sources of income by over 500 per cent, said a senior vigilance official on Tuesday.

The accused officer, identified as Dharanidhar Nayak, joined the government service on February 12, 2014, and was posted as a mining officer at Koraput. After about seven years, he was transferred from Koraput and posted at Talcher as a mining officer on January 20, 2021. He was promoted to the rank of Deputy Director of mining on April 18, 2022.

The Department of Civil Engineering at Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College Shri Fatehgarh Sahib recently hosted a three-day event, TECHNOBLAZE 24. The event aimed to refresh students' knowledge and spread awareness about surveying, designing, and the basics of civil engineering. The event commenced with a site surveying competition using dumpy levels, followed by an AutoCAD competition and a quiz on the basics of civil engineering. Principal Dr. Lakhvir Singh addressed the students, sharing his wisdom and insights. Prof. Guljit Singh, Head of the Civil Engineering Department, discussed surveying techniques and AutoCAD designing, highlighting their significance in civil engineering.

A man was killed after a piece of concrete fell on him at a demolition site in Tokyo, local media reported.

The 67-year-old man, Masanori Yokoyama, a security guard who was directing traffic at the site in the capital's Minato Ward, was sent to hospital with his head bleeding, but died three and a half hours later, Jiji Press reported on Monday, citing the Metropolitan Police Department.

The piece of concrete, apparently part of an exterior wall of the building, fell from the fifth floor through a construction enclosure, the report said, news agency reported.

The police of Chandigarh's Sector-31 police station have arrested a young man on the charge of raping a minor girl. In this case, a case has been registered under the sections of POCSO Act and rape. The accused has been identified as Rahul, who works in Industrial Area Phase-II Chandigarh.

The incident took place when the minor girl went to Rahul's office to hang out with her friend and the young man. It is being told that on July 29, the victim girl met her friend and Raj Kumar alias Raj near the Shiva temple in Hallomajra. The trio decided to stay out and hang out all night. Rajkumar took her to his friend Rahul's office in Industrial Area Phase-II. At night, everyone had dinner at Rahul's office, after which the victim's friend went downstairs to sleep, while the victim stayed there.

A total of 293 people have been killed and 564 others injured in monsoon rain-triggered accidents in Pakistan in the past two months as heavy downpours continued to wreak havoc in parts of the country, according to the National Disaster Management Authority.

Heavy rains have partially or fully damaged 19,572 houses, 39 bridges and several schools across the country, said the agency, adding that nearly 1,077 livestock have also perished from July 1 to August 31,news agency reported.

With disposable incomes rising amid the premiumisation trend, the sales of luxury smartphones have surged in India in recent quarters, industry experts said on Tuesday.

The smartphone shipments of Rs 1 lakh and above increased by 20 per cent (year-on-year) and 10 per cent (YoY) for Q1 2024 and Q2 2024, respectively, according to Counterpoint Research.

The shipments in the Rs 1 lakh and above segment accounted for just over 1 per cent of the market in the first half this year.

“This share is expected to increase slightly in the second half of the year with the arrival of Samsung Galaxy Foldables and the new Apple iPhone series,” Tarun Pathak, Director, Counterpoint Research, told.

Former South African cricketer JP Duminy has been named head coach of the ILT20 franchise Sharjah Warriorz ahead of the third season.

Duminy took over the baton from fellow Proteas cricketer and coach Johan Botha, who had led the team in the second edition of the ILT20.

"I am delighted to take up the challenge of being the head coach with Sharjah Warriorz. This is an excellent set-up, which is vibrant and full of optimism and ideas for the upcoming season. We are looking forward to building a strong squad for this year, and we are excited to see what lies in store for us," Duminy said in a statement.

The former South African all-rounder, who was the batting coach for the Warriorz in the previous edition of the ILT20, is among the most experienced cricketers in the T20 format.

On the 72nd birthday of Shakti Kapoor, her daughter and actress Shraddha Kapoor penned a heartfelt note for her 'pasandida purush', showering love on her 'baapu'.

Taking to Instagram, Shraddha, who has 92.7 million followers shared a photo with Shakti.

In the selfie, we can see Shraddha wearing a pink outfit and standing close to her father.

She wrote in the caption: "Aaj mere pasandida purush ka janam din hai! Happy Birthday Baapu @shaktikapoor Woh stree hai, woh kuch bhi kar sakti hai kyunki uske papa ka haath har dum uske sar par hai Love you Baapu".

Karisma Kapoor commented: "Happy birthday Shakti ji".

Varun Dhawan wrote: "Shakssss looking fresh". Shraddha replied to Varun and said: "He a bigsteppa trendsetta".

The solution to the problem of mass immigration lies in addressing the root causes, not in "walls or militarizing borders," Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said.

The best way to tackle immigration was "supporting the countries of Central America and the Caribbean with poor communities," the president said as he delivered his sixth and last state of the nation address to thousands of citizens gathered at Mexico City's central square on Sunday, news agency reported.

"Those who abandon their family, their community, do not do it out of pleasure, they do it out of necessity," he said, stressing the need to create jobs in underdeveloped regions to slow immigration.

Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Tuesday said that the floods in Munneru Rivulet in Khammam town were the result of encroachments.

For a second consecutive day, the Chief Minister visited the flood-affected Khammam district.

He told media persons that he would discuss the issue of raising the height of the retaining wall of Munneru Rivulet. He said encroachments would be removed after identifying them through the Survey of India map.

He also alleged that former minister and BRS leader Puvvada Ajay Kumar built a hospital on encroached land and demanded that BRS leader Harish Rao respond to the matter. He said the BRS leaders should set an example in removing encroachments.