JAMMU: At least 21 Bangladesh nationals, including four women and seven minors, were detained in J&K’s Ramban district last week. Officials were questioning them to learn who facilitated their movement to the Union Territory, official sources said Monday.The group was caught moving in two vehicles during a checking drive in Banihal on Aug 1, as…
Waterlogging at Sarat Bose Road Kolkata: The city has received 5% excess rain this monsoon, while south Bengal recorded an excess of 2%. The city, however, had a deficit of 12% in July while south Bengal received an excess of 14%. The July deficit in Kolkata has been attributed to more localized showers which were…
HC set aside the state’s decision to declare lands belonging to a majority of 184 property owners as private forest lands Mumbai: Bombay HC has pulled up the state govt for its “obstinacy” over assuming that as of Aug 30, 1975, private lands with forests automatically became private forests under Private Forests Act despite Supreme…
New Delhi: The city’s road digitisation survey kicked off with Ashoka Road Monday, marking the first on-ground step of Delhi govt’s collaboration with CSIR-Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) to make the capital’s roads greener and scientifically managed.A specialised network survey vehicle (NSV) has started digitising the road network to create a geo-referenced database that will…
Chennai: A 30-year-old man who suffered a head injury after falling during an altercation at a restaurant in Kelambakkam last week succumbed to his injuries. Police altered the case to murder.The deceased, Kirubakaran of Thaiyur panchayat near Thiruporur, had gone to a restaurant on July 28 to buy parotta. According to police, an argument broke…
Patna: After Jan Suraaj won the Bankipur assembly by-election, Congress slammed the RJD for the result that swung towards Prashant Kishor.The bypoll result exposed differences within the opposition alliance, with Congress spokesperson Asit Nath Tiwari blaming the RJD for the Mahagathbandhan’s defeat, saying the party contested the election without consulting its alliance partners.“Senior Congress and…
NEW DELHI: Raising the possibility of Parliament’s monsoon session being a washout, opposition Monday told govt that a discussion on the Ram temple donation issue and Union minister Amit Shah’s statement on police’s alleged crackdown on students are a must for the legislature to function normally. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge called the absence of PM…
Kolkata: A day after Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya warned partymen against any demand for cut money or extortion, state ministers Dilip Ghosh and Agnimitra Paul said on Monday such people would not be allowed to continue in the party. There were also “a number of people trying to contact us with crores of rupees”…
In the last year, BMC has been embroiled in a series of transfer-related controversies regarding the postings of its civic engineers. Mumbai: Amid repeated allegations of favouritism in the transfer of municipal engineers, the BMC is planning to introduce a software-based randomisation system to allocate postings for engineers, significantly reducing human intervention in the process.Civic…
New Delhi: Microplastics have been detected in all freshwater fish species examined from Yamuna. Fish from the Delhi stretch have significantly higher contamination than those from upstream areas, a study by researchers from University of Delhi has revealed.Microplastics are small plastic particles less than 5 mm in size. The study assessed 220 fish representing 12…
