Patna: A 48-year-old govt schoolteacher was shot and injured by two bike-borne criminals during a mobile snatching attempt on Wednesday morning in the Agamkuan police station area of Patna. The incident occurred at 4.30am near a private school at Bhagwat Nagar Chowk.The victim, Shambhu Kumar, who teaches at a govt school in Chandi, was on…
Ranchi: Rajesh Pillai, principal of Kairali School here, has been elected as the president of Ranchi Sahodaya School Complex (RSSC), through an online voting process. Paramita Saha, principal of Loyola Convent School, has been elected as the secretary, while Shalini Vijay, principal of Guru Gobind Singh Public School, has been elected as the treasurer. Principals…
Ranchi: The state govt is mulling a sponsorship scheme to 50 meritorious students from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and backward every year to help them prepare for competitive examinations. Chamra Linda, the minister for the state department of ST, SC, and Backward Class Welfare, said the students will be provided residential coaching in New Delhi….
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the Pokhran II nuclear tests showcased that “no power can bend India”.Codenamed ‘Operation Shakti’, Pokhran II tests were a series of five nuclear bomb explosions in May 1998 that gave India official entry into the global “nuclear club” and the sixth country to declare itself a nuclear-armed…
Kolkata: Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday said the state govt had granted sanction for prosecution to the CBI in four cases to enable action against officials accused of corruption.“The previous govt blocked four CBI cases for the last four years. Under the law, the CBI or an investigating agency requires sanction from the…
Mumbai: Mhada has yet again extended the deadline for applications to its upcoming housing lottery till May 28. In a controversial decision, the housing agency has reserved 610 out of 1,221 tenements in Vikhroli exclusively for HIG (High Income Group) applicants. Each will be allotted one parking space free of cost. The date of the…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Wednesday dismissed a public interest litigation challenging the blanket exemption of agricultural income from taxation and seeking its imposition in the capital, terming the plea “misconceived”.A bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia said the issue fell outside the court’s domain and that it could…
Chennai: DMK president M K Stalin on Wednesday accused the ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam of indulging in “dirty politics” by allegedly engineering support from split AIADMK legislators to survive the trust vote.“Those who came to power promising ‘clean politics’ have now resorted to ‘dirty politics’,” Stalin said, after the confidence motion was won by chief…
Patna: The bodies of two minor cousin sisters, who had been missing for the past two days, were found near Maksudpur brick kiln at Minapur village under Rampurhari police station area of Muzaffarpur district on Wednesday morning, police said. The bodies had started decomposing, indicating that the girls were allegedly murdered soon after they went…
Chatra: A man was arrested with 96 bottles of spurious liquor late on Tuesday, the police here said. The accused Vijay Kumar, 30, was arrested at a vehicle check point near Pandeypura mosque under Hunterganj police station limits, the police said.“A motorcycle (JH13F-3586) was intercepted after cops found the rider’s movement suspicious. During interrogation, he…
