Kolkata: More than 1,200 listeners sat spellbound as Sangeetacharya Amiya Ranjan Bandyopdhyay stepped onstage on Feb 21 — his 100th birthday — and reiterated that age is just a number. The hall filled beyond capacity, and another 200 people turned back, shut out not by lack of devotion, but by lack of space. In a…
Mumbai: The Congress’s decision to contest alone in most parts of Maharashtra during the recently concluded local body elections offered the party a mixed lesson. While the results fell short of expectations, leaders believed the solo run helped revive its fading grassroots network — a point that came up during Rahul Gandhi’s brief visit to…
NEW DELHI: A 15-year-old boy died following a fight with a group of minors at a park in West Delhi’s Tilak Nagar area on Monday evening, police said.According to authorities, the incident occurred at around 7.22 pm on 23 February within the jurisdiction of Tilak Nagar police station. The victim, a minor, had been playing…
Chennai: Doctors can thrive without hospitals, whereas a hospital can never exist without doctors rendering their services. Therefore, by no means can a hospital treat a doctor like a workman in a factory, a technical person, or a regular employee, Madras high court said.Justice N Anand Venkatesh made the observations on Monday, while dismissing an…
Patna: The Vigilance Investigation Bureau (VIB) arrested two govt officials while they were allegedly accepting bribes in separate incidents on Tuesday.In the first case, Vikram Kumar Ram, survey “amin” at Marauna circle in Supaul district, was arrested while accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 at his rented accommodation in Ward Number 1 under Nirmali Nagar…
Ranchi: An 18-year-old Raja, who has been living in a childcare home in Kerala after being separated from his parents when the family was migrating from Chaibasa in West Singhbhum to Howrah in a train in search of work in 2012, would be reunited with his family.Raja had reportedly got off the train at some…
Kolkata/ Chatra: A plane, which took off from Ranchi for New Delhi on Monday around 7.11 pm, lost contact with air traffic control (ATC) around 7.34 pm and crashed in a forested stretch near Karmatand village in Kesoria panchayat under Simaria block of Chatra district, sources at the Kolkata ATC said.Preliminary reports suggest that all…
AI-generated image (For representative purposes only) NEW DELHI: Centre on Tuesday approved altering the name ‘Kerala’ to ‘Keralam’ almost two years after the state’s legislative assembly passed a resolution for the same. The approval comes as the state is set to go to polls later this year.BJP Kerala president Rajeev Chandrasekhar called it a “privilege”…
Kolkata: A honey badger, rarely sighted in India, has been spotted in the forests of Jhargram, a senior official said on Monday. The animal was photographed by a trap camera installed by the forest department during a recent survey.Earlier, a honey badger was captured on camera in Purulia.Chief conservator of forest S Kulandaivel said the…
Mumbai: Bombay HC rapped the chief officer (CO) of Mhada’s Mumbai Building Repairs and Reconstruction Board for cancelling an NOC given for redevelopment of a Tardeo building following a representation. Ten of the proposed sixteen floors of the building have been raised.“We find that there is an increasing tendency of persons to approach public officials…
