SRINAGAR: As the Leopard continues to roam freely in the uptown areas of Srinagar city, the wildlife department Thursday said that they have got some vital clues of the animal by capturing the images in cameras at two places in Srinagar.
Quoting an official, news agency KNO reported that the department has been largely successful in identifying the track of the animal and that they are trying at multiple levels to track down the roaming animal.
“We are getting closer now in sorting out the conflict as our cameras have captured the images from Wanibal and the old airport in the Rangreth area and, so far we have got the images of only one animal”, he said.
He said that people should continue to take precautions and avoid any movement of children during the morning or evening hours, stating that the animal is roaming around the human habitat.
“Wanibal area has a history of witnessing the movement of wild animals as last year we captured one Leopard from the area. People in the area should move in pairs and should avoid keeping their pets in the lawns as that attracts the animal”, he remarked.
He added that they have increased the number of trap cages in specified areas after they identified the vital trails leading to the animal.
Pertinently, a leopard was spotted in Srinagar’s Rawalpora area, around mid of February, after which the wildlife
A video showing two men reportedly stealing flowerpots set up for the impending G20 meeting in Haryana’s Gurugram went viral on Tuesday, forcing the city’s development administration to take action against the offenders.
“It (viral video) has come to our cognizance and action will be taken against them,” SK Chahal, Joint CEO of Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority told news agency ANI.
DC Gurugram responded to the tweet and asked the city police to look into the matter.
The one-minute video shows the two men standing alongside their car, which has a VIP number plate, in Gurugram’s Shankar Chowk, picking flowerpots one after the other and storing them in the trunk.
At the moment of posting, the video had received over 5 lakh views and over 3500 ‘likes’ on Twitter. Hundreds of comments were left on the post, with many poking fun at the situation and others highlighting the price of the car featured in the video.
According to District Commissioner (DC) Nishant Kumar Yadav, representatives from 39 nations are anticipated to attend this event where they will discuss the anti-corruption initiatives implemented in their nations, the degree to which they were successful in reducing corruption, and what else needs to be done.
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Anakapalli Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) B. Sunil was reportedly found using a car, which was seized in a Ganja smuggling case, for his personal use.
The incident came to light when the officer travelling in the car along with members of his family met with an accident in Visakhapatnam.
The videos of the DSP on the four-wheeler soon went viral on Sunday followed by several TDP leaders from Anakapalli and Visakhapatnam districts criticising the police officer for his action.
The car was seized by the Kasimkota police in July last year after the peddlers sped away leaving the car in the Mandal in the Anakapalle district.
Later, the accused asked the police to hand over the car to his mother.
However, his mother had left for Rajasthan by the time the police shifted the car to Anakapalle rural police station.
Since then, the police have been reportedly using the seized car as no case was registered nor complaint launched by any.
Also, the number plate of the car was reportedly changed and given to the DSP to go to a hospital in Visakhapatnam to meet one of his family members, who was undergoing treatment.
Police have sought the details and initiated a probe into the matter.
“The states are not going to reach an agreement. We are just too far apart,” said Rep. Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.), who represents the Phoenix area. “Now is the time that we need this administration to come up with a solution to this dilemma, and we need it now.”
California is insisting on its legal claims under a compact dating back to 1922 as the river faces unprecedented strain because of climate change and population growth in the Southwest. The standoff thrusts the Biden administration into the position of deciding how to resolve competing claims on water shared among 40 million people from Wyoming to Mexico.
The Interior Department, which asked the states to come up with a joint plan to reduce use by roughly 30 percent, is expected to impose cuts as early as this summer.
On one side are six states, including Arizona and Nevada, where growing cities such as Las Vegas and Phoenix are in an existential battle to avoid exhausting their supplies from the Colorado River. On the other is California, where farmers could go to the courts to protect their water rights.
Decisions taken by California in this most sensitive of battles could one day hurt Gov. Gavin Newsom if he runs for president and needs political support in Nevada and Arizona, two battleground states.
A bipartisan group of Western representatives, excluding officials from California, urged President Joe Biden to support the proposal offered by the six states in a letter Wednesday morning.
California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot, a Newsom appointee, as well as the state’s two senators have criticized the six-state plan, saying it would disproportionately burden California cities and farmers.
Western senators are planning to meet to discuss the issue Thursday.
The Interior Department is keeping up talks with states and tribes and wants “as much support and consensus as possible,” said a spokesperson on Wednesday.
The proposal from the six states would impose additional cuts to every user, including California and Mexico.
Their plan relies on a new tool to preserve some water for Arizona and Nevada users by accounting for evaporation and leaks along the river as it flows downstream to California.
That infuriated California’s farmers, who see the concept as a way to cut into their legal claims to the water.
Instead, California’s proposal would alter operations at the river’s two main dams, forcing states to take modest cuts to which they’ve already agreed. If that’s not enough it would then force cuts using the priority system, effectively drying out central Arizona cities and tribes before the Golden State takes additional mandatory cuts.
“We agree there needs to be reduced use in the Lower Basin, but that can’t be done by just completely ignoring and sidestepping federal law,” said J.B. Hamby, the chair of the Colorado River Board of California and an Imperial Irrigation District director.
California, he said, already volunteered additional reductions back in October to ease the burden on other states.
The Interior Department said it plans to release a draft analysis of the options it is considering this spring. It could step in as soon as this summer to slash deliveries.
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Hyderabad: Two government officials in Warangal were caught red-handed accepting a bribe of Rs 50000 from a painter for processing a bill of Rs 16 lakh pertaining to works for a tribal festival.
The painter had approached the two for an official favour. The painter requested the officials “to record the measurements in M-Book and to process the bill of Rs 16 lakh pertaining to the works to existing structures of Medaram Sammakka –Saralamma Jathara-2022″ executed by the painter and four others on behalf of Village Development Committee.
The accused, who worked at the tribal welfare office in Warangal, were identified as Mohammad Abid Khan, 58, Draft Man Grade-III, and Konnay Naveen Kumar, 28, Assistant Executive Engineer.
Officer Naveen had demanded Sanjheeva pay him Rs 50000 for getting his work done, which he accepted through the other accused Abid.
The painter approached Anti-Corruption Bureau officials after the accused demanded the bribe and the two were caught red-handed.
The fingers of Abid’s right hand yielded positive in the chemical test and the bribe amount was recovered from the possession.
Both have been arrested and produced before the First Additional Special Judge for SPE & ACB Cases.
Further investigation is underway.
The police have requested the public to report any public servant who demands a bribe to the ACB on the Toll-Free number 1064 for taking action.
In the latest episode of the season 2 of Shark Tank India the Shark Anupam Mittal is seen going after an entrepreneur who tried to increase its company’s valuation by 10X simply by adding zero in the cheque given by Shark Anupam Mittal.
While the episode is yet to be aired the ad of the episode show an entrepreneur presenting his idea to the sharks and cracking a deal of 30 lakhs for 10% equity from Anupam Mittal. However, not happy with the valuation, the entrepreneur secretly added zero in the cheque and was caught doing show by the show host.
The same was reported to Anupam Mittal, who then not only reprimanded the entrepreneur but also cancelled the deal and reported the case to the police. Speaking to The Fauxy, Anupam Mittal said “this could have landed me in trouble since I don’t have 3 crore in my account and the cheque would have bounced“.
To avoid such cases, Shark Tank India will now have psychometric test for all the pitchers.
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