Malda: Another holding centre for illegal Bangladeshi immigrants opened in Malda on Wednesday, the third in the district, reports Subhro Maitra.The new centre has come up in Bamangola. The first holding centre in Malda opened at English Bazar while the second at Old Malda. Malda SP Anupam Singh said with the new centre, the three…
Amitabh Jhunjhunwala is currently lodged in Arthur Road Jail under judicial custody for a separate, but related matter Mumbai: A special court on Wednesday remanded Amitabh Jhunjhunwala, former group managing director of the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications, to CBI custody till Friday in a multi-crore bank loan fraud allegedly involving Reliance Commercial Finance Limited. The…
New Delhi: For more than two weeks, a 77-year-old man’s worsening breathlessness was blamed on advanced lung disease. But when treatment failed and his oxygen levels plunged to 65%, doctors discovered an unexpected cause: a pea stuck deep inside his airway.The elderly patient, a known case of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) for the past…
K Bhagyaraj with his mentor When people speak about Bharathiraja’s legacy, the conversation often begins with the actors he introduced and the heroines he transformed into stars. But perhaps, his greatest contribution to Tamil cinema lies behind the camera.For nearly five decades, Bharathiraja’s sets functioned as an informal film institute, producing a generation of assistant…
Pic for representation purpose only Patna: All district hospitals where ICUs are currently non-functional have been instructed to operationalise a minimum four-bed ICU or HDU for treating critical cases and emergencies such as cardiac arrest, snake bites, and dog bites.These directions were issued by health secretary Kumar Ravi during a review of various health programmes,…
Bokaro: The Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) has switched from propane to piped natural gas (PNS) on plant premises to mitigate the rising costs and supply chain disruptions due to the ongoing West Asia conflict, officials here said.In April this year, the PSU commissioned a 7km-long internal PNG pipeline network in seven days to ensure uninterrupted…
Jamshedpur: The Jamshedpur district traffic police on Wednesday began a crackdown on erring auto-rickshaws, following an increase in complaints from motorists about drivers disrupting the smooth flow of traffic.Random inspections aimed at penalising operators who park illegally on roadsides or stop on service roads to pick up and drop off passengers.Traffic police, accompanied by transport…
NEW DELHI: The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday denied that there was any proposal or discussion about the Mamata Banerjee led party merging with the Congress at a meeting between leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi and TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday.The meeting between Rahul and Abhishek at 10, Janpath came a day after…
Kolkata: With state lawyers absent, Calcutta HC deferred the MLA ‘Signgate’ case in which Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee is an accused, and is likely to hear it now on Thursday. The court also refused urgent hearing to Trinamool over CID raids in connection with the alleged signature scam.On Tuesday, a CID team searched the TMC…
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Monday granted interim protection from prosecution or imposition of any penalty by the Income Tax (I-T) department to industrialist Anil Ambani in an alleged Rs 420-crore aggregate tax demand case, in a petition he filed to raise a constitutional challenge to the provisions of the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign…
