Kolkata/Jaldapara: The forest department has put in place special measures to ensure voter safety during the first phase of the Bengal assembly elections on Thursday, with a focus on elephant-prone areas of south and north Bengal.Around 25 polling booths have been identified as sensitive in south Bengal because of their proximity to active elephant corridors….
Mumbai: More than eight months after the Mumbai Coastal Road (South) project was opened round-the-clock to motorists, landscaping of the open spaces along the stretch is yet to begin. Civic officials said the BMC has been asked by Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL)—which has been assigned the landscaping work—to first carry out soil filling up to…
A former domestic help was arrested in Delhi for the alleged rape and murder of an IRS officer’s daughter NEW DELHI: A former domestic help allegedly turned fugitive was arrested from a hotel in Dwarka after Delhi Police pieced together a digital trail involving a stolen mobile phone, hotel Wi-Fi access, IP data records and…
CHENNAI: Polling at a booth in T T Arasu Matriculation School in Choolaimedu was disrupted for over two hours on polling day after a malfunction in the electronic voting machine (EVM).Voting began at 7am and was proceeding normally until around 10am, when the EVM suddenly stopped working. At the time of the disruption, more than…
Patna: Chanakya National Law University (CNLU) has launched a two-year M Sc programme in cyber security and digital forensics (CSDF) from the 2026–28 academic session.Registrar S P Singh said the programme is designed to prepare students for over 21 career roles across four tracks — industry, judiciary, law enforcement and national security, and policy and…
NEW DELHI: For thousands of elderly and critically ill patients dependent on the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS), the biggest risk is no longer just the disease—it is the delay in getting approval for treatment.A representation sent to Union health minister Jagat Prakash Nadda has flagged how life-saving procedures and drugs are getting stuck in…
Kolkata: Trinamool MLA Khagendra Nath Mahata from Gopiballavpur in Jhargram joined the BJP on Wednesday evening, hours before the constituency goes to polls. Mahata, a doctor, was denied a ticket by Trinamool for the 2026 elections.“The party has broken the trust of the people in Jangalmahal. No decent neta can survive in it. I had…
Padma Shri Param Pujya Acharya Chandanaji MUMBAI: Padma Shri Param Pujya Acharya Chandanaji did not just live a spiritual life; she expanded its meaning. In a tradition that often equates devotion with withdrawal, she chose engagement, with suffering, with society, with service. As the founder of Veerayatan Group of Institutions, she built more than an…
NEW DELHI: A seven-year-old boy, who was allegedly kidnapped in southwest Delhi’s Dabri area, has been rescued. Police arrested the accused from New Delhi Railway Station, officials said on Thursday.According to police, the child was taken from his home around 4.30 pm on Monday, following which a complaint was lodged at Dabri police station. A…
NAMAKKAL: The indelible ink applied on her right index finger added to the beauty of the henna on her hands. Casting her vote was the first thing that Deepika of Kosavampatti in Namakkal district did after her wedding on Thursday morning. Deepika and the groom, Anand of Tirupur, walked straight to polling station wearing garlands….
