The building from where the man fell and died Kolkata: A 39-year-old man died after allegedly falling from a seven-storey residential building located in Kankurgachhi on Tuesday, triggering an investigation whether he has died by suicide or an accidental fall.The deceased has been identified as Birendra Bahety (39), a trader, was a resident of Narkeldanga…
The Bombay High Court ordered social media intermediaries to remove vile and abusive online content. MUMBAI: Observing that some of the content was “vile’’ “abusive’’ and “certainly defamatory’’, Bombay high court on Wednesday granted urgent interim relief to Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari and directed Social Media intermediaries to remove posts including videos that linked…
The bill was deliberated and passed in the cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta NEW DELHI: Businesses in Delhi could soon be spared lengthy approval processes and repeated inspections, with the Delhi Cabinet clearing the draft of the Ease of Doing Business Bill, 2026, which proposes self-certification for low-risk industries, deemed approvals and…
CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu govt on Wednesday announced a new interest subsidy scheme for women self-help groups (SHGs). Under the scheme, women SHGs that repay loans on time would receive an interest subsidy, benefiting loans to the tune of Rs 38,000 crore this year, said state finance minister N Marie Wilson while presenting the 2026-27…
Supreme Court clarifies interim order for new sorganisations on audio-video clips of court proceedings NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has clarified that its July 24 interim order prohibiting news organisations from sharing or uploading audio and video clips of court hearings does not bar them from reporting on judicial proceedings, but that they cannot use…
BY: Oishi GooptuKOLKATA: St. Xavier’s University inaugurated its first BTech batch under the Xavier School of Engineering and Technology (XSET) on Tuesday, at the Fr. Albert Huart Hall, Arrupe Building. The inaugural batch has filled all 240 seats across four programmes offered by XSET — Computer Science and Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, Electronics…
Bombay high court ordered Meta and X Corp to remove defamatory content MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday directed social media giants Meta and X Corp to immediately take down all content, including Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated material, allegedly defamatory towards Union minister Nitin Gadkari regarding the government’s ethanol-blended petrol policy.Sandeep S Ladda, the advocate…
A new study by researchers at the University of Delhi found microplastics in every species of freshwater fish sampled from the river, with fish collected from Delhi’s stretch carrying much higher contamination than those from upstream Haryana. NEW DELHI: For years, the Yamuna has come to symbolise sewage, industrial waste and toxic foam, but now…
CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu govt has allocated Rs 23 crore in the 2026-27 budget for the preservation and promotion of traditional folk arts. It will cover 200 selected folk art groups, with financial assistance to support 100 days of performances annually.Presenting the budget in the assembly, finance minister N Marie Wilson said the govt wants…
For 19 years, Taslima Nasreen carried Kolkata in her memories, longing to return but unable to do so. The city that had become her “second home” after she left Bangladesh in 1994 remained out of reach. Forced to flee her country of birth and later compelled to leave the city where she had settled, Nasreen…
