Several IAS officers were transferred Chaitanya.MarpakwarMumbai: IAS officer Tukaram Mundhe was on Tuesday appointed commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This is his 25th transfer in a 21-year career and his second in less than two months. In April, the 2005-batch IAS officer was transferred as secretary of the disability welfare department and…
New Delhi: Delhi Police has secured the conviction of a man accused in a wallet snatching case within just 14 days of the crime. While the investigation was completed in three days, the chargesheet was filed within four days of registration of the FIR. The trial court conducted proceedings on a day-to-day basis before convicting…
Archaeological Survey of India is working to bring back from Scotland seven charters on copper plates, including those issued by Vishnu Gopavarman and Simhavarman, early Pallava kings who ruled from Kanchipuram. CHENNAI: After bringing back the 11th century CE Chola-era copper plates from Leiden University in the Netherlands, Archaeological Survey of India is now working…
Patna: CM Samrat Choudhary on Tuesday asked govt doctors to end the practice of unnecessarily referring normal patients from sub-divisional and district hospitals to major hospitals by Aug 15, warning that strict action would follow any violation.Speaking at the launch of the ‘Sahyog’ camp in Sonepur of Saran district, Samrat said govt doctors posted in…
Dhanbad: An undertrial prisoner lodged in Dhanbad divisional jail died under suspicious circumstances late Monday night, leading the district administration to order a magisterial inquiry and a supervised post-mortem examination.The deceased was identified as 27-year-old Jeetan Rajwar of Sangramdih under Govindpur police station. He was in jail since May 16 in connection with the alleged…
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari’s aide Chandranath Rath NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested Vinay Rai, the fifth accused in the murder case of Chandranath Rath, personal assistant to West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari.Rai was arrested from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh as the probe into the high-profile killing widened across…
Kolkata: Taslima Nasrin, the Bangladesh-born author living in exile and now based in Delhi, said the change in regime in West Bengal has rekindled her hopes of returning to Kolkata, from where she was forced out in Nov 2007. She said she has not been allowed to return to the city since then.An upbeat Taslima…
Bella JaisinghaniMumbai: With petrol price in Mumbai Rs 107.59 per litre and diesel Rs 94.08 in the wake of the latest rate increase on Tuesday, the cumulative fuel hike over the past four days comes to Rs 4 per litre. As fuel costs feed into transportation and essential goods, the increases, it appears, have begun…
New Delhi: Ahead of the scheduled launch of special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the capital, Delhi chief electoral officer on Tuesday held first meeting with representatives of political parties after the SIR was announced last week. The meeting was held with the objective of getting feedback from political parties before the SIR…
AIADMK chief Edappadi Palaniswami (left) and DMK chief Stalin. CHENNAI: Signs of unrest within Dravidian majors after the poll debacle intensified on Monday, even as DMK president M K Stalin and AIADMK chief Edappadi K Palaniswami assured their cadres that the two parties would bounce back.While AIADMK veteran S Semmalai quit after serving the party…
