Kolkata: Just 72 hours to go before the Supreme Court’s first deadline to add voters cleared by SIR tribunals, Election Commission has yet to publish the name of a single person whose voting right has been reinstated and who can participate in the first phase of the Bengal polls on April 23.More than 27 lakh…
MUMBAI: Marathi instruction in schools is set to come under stricter scrutiny, with state govt warning of penalties of up to Rs 1 lakh for institutions that fail to comply with teaching requirements for the language.A government resolution (GR) issued on Friday flags that “in many schools, especially private English-medium institutions, Marathi is not being…
New Delhi: Ending the plight of a man booked under Pocso Act after the hospital where his underage wife delivered a child alerted police, Delhi High Court has quashed the criminal case.It allowed the joint plea of the accused husband and the now-adult wife to quash the case under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences…
Chennai: Brushing aside talk of anti-incumbency, Velachery MLA Aassan Maulaana, who is seeking a re-election, asserts there is no anger against him on the ground. In an interaction with TOI during his campaign, the Congress candidate said he was confident of winning by a comfortable margin.You received backlash for saying in 2023 that floodwater will…
Patna: JD(U) may elect its legislature party leader next week, probably on April 20.The JD(U) legislature party meeting was scheduled for the very day party supremo Nitish Kumar resigned as the CM on April 14, but it was postponed. Later, Nitish “garlanded” BJP legislature party leader Samrat Choudhary as his successor at the NDA meeting…
Bokaro: Deputy commissioner (DC) Ajay Nath Jha has asked Airports Authority of India (AAI) to fast-track Bokaro airport project as the 48-hour inspection by AAI team concluded on Thursday. The team also met with the DC to apprise them of their findings.The team, led by AGM (CNS) Dilip Kumar Sinha, reviewed infrastructure, safety, emergency systems,…
Ranchi: Schools across the city are busy preparing lists of candidates who wish to appear for the second CBSE Class X examination. This year, CBSE introduced two board exams for Class X providing students an opportunity to improve their scores in the second exam if they are dissatisfied with their marks in the first.Following the…
NEW DELHI: NDA allies offered full support to the three bills during the Lok Sabha debate on Friday.Southern ally TDP’s floor leader Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu said his party would back the bills to pave way for delimitation and women’s reservation, based on the “guarantee” given by home minister Amit Shah and PM Modi.He referred…
Kolkata: Darjeeling, Siliguri, Cooch Behar and North Dinajpur will cease to exist if the delimitation bill is passed, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Friday, slamming the BJP-led govt’s move as a “deliberate attempt at dividing the country”.“They tabled the delimitation bill. Women’s reservation is a false front, as I support it independently. We will support…
Mumbai: Bombay high court on Friday directed the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to reply to a petition that seeks financial assistance for the treatment and care of patients of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), a rare neurodegenerative disease that is caused by mutated measles virus.Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Shyam Chandak were…
