Chennai: The state highways department has begun major widening works at the Padi rail overbridge (ROB) on Jawaharlal Nehru Salai (Inner Ring Road).The ongoing work, worth 139 crores, will expand the existing three-lane bridge into a dual five-lane structure and widen the narrow approach stretch towards Padi, a long-standing traffic bottleneck on the corridor.Highways chief…
In a strategic huddle ahead of the Rajya Sabha elections, the RJD and its allies expressed strong confidence in their candidate’s prospects for victory. With precisely 41 MLAs in tow, the significance of unity among the opposition was highlighted. However, the conspicuous absence of AIMIM and BSP raised questions about their potential support, which remains…
Ranchi: The Jharkhand High Court on Wednesday directed Chatra SP to investigate the whereabouts of a missing teenager who is allegedly missing since Jan 31 this year.The teenager’s mother Akhtari Khatoon has filed a petition of habeas corpus before the HC stating that her 19-year-old son was picked up by the police in Chatra and…
Ranchi: After being ignored in the seat-sharing deal during Bihar assembly elections, the JMM is now eyeing new allies for the Assam poll, due later this year. Party office-bearers, however, said that final modalities will be known only as the election near.Addressing a rally at Mijikajan Tea Estate in Assam on Tuesday, Jharkhand chief minister…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday directed CBI to conduct a preliminary inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of a 20-year-old Dalit woman in MP’s Sagar district in 2024. It rejected the plea of the state that the case was politically motivated, and said the truth must come out.A bench of Justices M M…
Kolkata: Kasba police registered a theft case after a 26-year-old woman alleged that silver items, coins, ornaments and electronic items worth several lakhs were stolen from her flat in south Kolkata between March 2 and March 10, police said.The case started on the basis of a written complaint filed by Mamoni Saha, a resident of…
Thane: The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) revived its Heat Action Plan ahead of the peak summer months, bringing back measures such as installing green shade nets and water fountains at major traffic intersections to provide relief from soaring temperatures.The heat mitigation measures, which came amid the civic body simultaneously allowing the cutting of a large…
New Delhi: Police arrested 3 people, including two main accused, for allegedly setting a Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus on fire during unrest that broke out in west Delhi’s Nangloi after a fatal accident earlier this week. The main accused, Navlesh Kumar (45) of West Sagarpur, was identified through CCTV footage allegedly showing him setting…
To educate children to respect the law is not to deny them the tools of critique. It is to sequence those tools responsibly. Srimathi Venkatachari Recently, a Class VIII National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) social science textbook with a section describing “corruption in the judiciary” made headlines.Supreme Court took suo motu cognisance…
In a bid to uplift talented yet underprivileged students, Patna University is breathing new life into its dormant endowment funds. Established by generous supporters, these scholarships and awards have sadly become inactive due to dwindling resources. Patna: Patna University (PU) has initiated steps to revive all its ‘defunct’ endowments to help poor and meritorious students….
