New Delhi: A month after Delhi budget allocated Rs 3.5 crore for the aftercare of young adults leaving child care centres and their integration into the mainstream, the women and child development (WCD) department has initiated steps to the end.The plan is to strengthen the scheme, starting with tracing these youths and building a database…
Chennai: Rocket, an AI software development startup backed by Salesforce Ventures, Accel and Together Fund, is targeting small and medium businesses and large enterprises by building tools around existing workflows and governance requirements. The $15 million seed-funded startup believes it can scale by focusing on business customers rather than individual developers or non-technical enthusiasts.Vishal Virani,…
A nursing school’s directive forbidding female students from marrying during their studies sparked immediate backlash. The civil surgeon swiftly cancelled the order, asserting education rights aren’t tied to marital status. The principal cited disruptions from marriage proposals and extended leaves, but admitted no official rule existed. The notice has since been withdrawn. Patna: A notification…
Ranchi: The ruling JMM has started to mobilise its cadres at the district and block level by holding workshops to sensitise them ahead of the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral roll in the state, which is expected to kick off soon.On Tuesday, JMM workers from 12 district units of Sahibganj, Dumka, Godda, Pakur, Deoghar,…
Jamshedpur: A 37-year-old man, Budeshwar Singh, a resident of Patamda block, died on Tuesday after jumping off from the roof of a pick-up van after the overloaded vehicle suddenly wavered on an uneven patch at Bamni village on the Tata-Patamda main road on Monday evening.Apprehending that the vehicle would turn overturn, Singh jumped off the…
NEW DELHI: In a bid to enhance the Indian Army’s minefield breaching capability, the defence ministry on Tuesday signed contracts worth nearly Rs 975 crore for the procurement of critical equipment for T-72 and T-90 tanks.The contracts with defence PSU Bharat Earth Movers Ltd (BEML) and Electro Pneumatics and Hydraulics (India) Private Ltd are for…
Kolkata: A real estate developer narrowly escaped an alleged kidnapping attempt linked to an extortion demand. According to a victim’s complaint, the incident occurred on the evening of April 19 near a petrol pump on Karl Marx Sarani. The developer said that he had been called to the spot under the pretext of a business…
Mumbai: Over two months after the BMC first issued a stop-work notice to a transit camp in Worli after finding that it was coming up on a civic land parcel reserved for a sewage treatment plant (STP), the municipal commissioner has now written to the state government seeking a revision in land allocation for the…
New Delhi: Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has informed National Green Tribunal that it will complete a drone survey of the Yamuna floodplain, or the O zone, in about two months. The survey area spans 165 sq km and includes the buffer areas.The O zone is the entire floodplain along the 22-km stretch of the Yamuna…
Chennai: DMK IT wing deputy secretary and the daughter of actor Sathyaraj, Dhivya Sathyaraj, said on Tuesday that TVK supporters hurled slippers at her when she was campaigning in Chennai.“When I was campaigning at Nungambakkam for Thousand Lights MLA N Ezhilan on Monday evening, a group of TVK supporters who gathered there threw slippers at…
