Jalpaiguri: Within 48 hours of the Election Commission (EC) declaring Bengal polls, Alipurduar police seized Rs 2.75 lakh cash from a couple travelling in an Assam registered car on Wednesday afternoon.According to norms, individuals are not allowed to carry cash exceeding Rs 50,000 once elections are declared.Biken Ishwarari and his wife had travelled to Alipurduar…
Quick-thinking resident foiled a kidnapping attempt in Vikhroli’s Damodar Park. MUMBAI: The presence of mind shown by a resident prevented a man from kidnapping two minor girls from a housing society in Vikhroli. Mohammad Zakaria Qamar Naeem Shamsi (21), a resident of Damodar Park, Maitri Co-operative Housing Society, who helped police arrest Suraj Prasad Banwasi,…
TN challenges ‘industry’ tag for temples in SC (Representative image) NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious & Charitable Endowments Commissioner questioned the expansive definition of ‘industry’ settled by Supreme Court in 1978 , saying how it can cover temples when most of them are maintained from the surplus money generated from donations received by a…
Section 17 lands in O’Valley in Gudalur region in the Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu govt’s delay in implementing Section 17 of the Gudalur Janmam Estates (Abolition and Conversion into Ryotwari) Act, 1969, which has lasted about six decades, has led to widespread encroachments, including along elephant corridors in O’Valley within the Gudalur taluk…
Patna: Animesh Kumar Parashar, managing director of Bihar Urban Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (Buidco), has instructed officials to complete key drainage projects, including Nandlal Chapra pumping station and Yogipur drain connection, by March. This system will link the Yogipur drain to a new station near Bhootnath Metro, diverting excess water and reducing pressure on Pahari…
Ranchi: Even as CBSE Class 10 board examinations concluded on March 11, schools across Ranchi have begun entrance tests and admission processes for Class 11, reflecting heightened competition and early academic planning among students.Several leading institutions have already rolled out stream selection tests for science, commerce and humanities, with a large number of students appearing…
JAMSHEPUR: A 41-year-old man died after choking on a rasgulla at a wedding in Jharkhand’s Jamshedpur.Doctors said the syrupy sweet blocked Lalit Singh’s airways, which disrupted oxygen supply and led to his death.Lalit had difficulties in breathing after the rasgulla got stuck in his throat during the wedding in Malianta village near Jamshedpur on Saturday….
KOLLAM: A maritime trainee from Chandanathope in Kerala’s Kollam is stranded on an Iranian cargo vessel mid-sea off Sharjah coast for nearly a month. His family is worried that he is suffering. Akhimon M, 21, had joined Iran-based cargo vessel Queen Star and travelled to the country on April 14 last year. After completing training…
Kolkata: Jadavpur University on Sunday decided to suspend a fourth-year chemical engineering student from his ongoing eighth semester, including attending classes and appearing for exams, and has debarred him from entering campus and hostel premises following an incident of verbal abuse, slut shaming, physical assault and sexual harassment of a few students on campus on…
IWSA’s urban rainforest brings biodiversity alive “A tropical rainforest,” says naturalist Vijaya Chakravarty, “is like a multi-storey building. You have the ground cover, the shrubs, the creepers, and, towering above them, the trees.” And every ‘floor’, she continues, motioning up a trunk, forms a distinct ecological niche inhabited by some species or another, from orchids…
