Ranchi: The Jharkhand Biodiversity Board (JBB) has drafted the biodiversity site management plan for Canary Pahar in Hazaribag district, the state’s first notified biodiversity heritage site.Canary Pahar is the first of 111 sites identified by the board to receive the status from the state govt, positioning it as the 45th biodiversity heritage site in India.Board…
NEW DELHI: In four days of securing Kerala chief minister post, Congress leader VD Satheesan has found himself at the centre of a political storm that is not over policy or governance, but over his name.Congress leaders have now criticised its own CM for the name he chose to publicly use while taking his constitutional…
KOLKATA: A local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, Pappu Sana, was allegedly assaulted by a group of attackers in Narendrapur in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, near Kolkata, police said on Thursday.Pappu Sana has been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a state-run hospital in Kolkata.The incident took place around 2 am,…
Mumbai: A 25-year-old woman was booked by Worli police after her high-end car rammed into a sedan on Worli Sea Link at around 11.45 pm on Monday, police said. No injuries were reported in the incident.Police booked Zenia D’sa, a resident of Powai, who was allegedly driving in a reckless and negligent manner on the…
Dowry deaths persist in India despite being outlawed, with women facing relentless demands for cash and property, often leading to violence and suicide. India outlawed dowry in 1961. More than six decades later, thousands of women still die every year in marriages shaped by money, status and coercion.One bride pleads with her father over the…
A Amalraj is a 1996-batch IPS officer. Photo by A Prathap CHENNAI: Additional director general of police (ADGP) A Amalraj, a 1996-batch IPS officer, has been posted as the Chennai city police commissioner. ADGP Abhin Dinesh Modak has been posted as the Crime Branch Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) replacing ADGP T S Anbu. Additional chief…
Patna: Bihar’s ‘Dial-112’ Emergency Response Support System (ERSS) has provided emergency assistance to more than 55 lakh people since its launch on July 8, 2022, emerging as a major success in emergency policing and citizen support, according to Bihar Police Headquarters (PHQ).Addressing a press conference at PHQ on Wednesday, additional director general (technical services and…
Dumka: A resident of Shimla Manjhidih village in Deoghar district was arrested on Thursday on charges of beating his septuagenarian father to death over a financial disagreement a day earlier, police said.The deceased was identified as 70-year-old Mulind Hembrom, police added.The ASI of Chitra police station, Shetlal Barla, said, “Mulind had been engaged in a…
Ranchi: The state govt would launch a state-of-the-art incubation centre by August to strengthen the regional entrepreneurship ecosystem. The proposed facility aims to support at least 100 non-IT startups within its first two years of operation.The Jharkhand Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (JIIDCO) on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with XLRI – Xavier School…
Every morning across India, millions of hands instinctively reach for the same comfort before the day truly begins — a steaming cup of chai.At railway stations, tea stalls and office canteens, conversations begin over tea long before breakfast is served. In homes, the familiar sound of boiling milk and tea leaves often becomes the soundtrack…
