Ranchi: Anticipating poor monsoon this year, state agriculture minister Shilpi Neha Tirkey on Thursday directed officials to plan in advance in order to combat drought and directed them to prepare district-level contingency plans by May 12.“The govt is fully alert and active regarding the possibility of below-normal rainfall in the state as per initial predictions,”…
NEW DELHI: The onus of disproving suspicions about the legitimacy of late businessman Sunjay Kapur’s purported will lies on his wife Priya Kapur, Delhi high court said Thursday, directing that his Rs 30,000-crore estate be frozen until all doubts are settled, reports. “The legitimate suspicious circumstances raised by the plaintiffs will have to be completely…
Kolkata: Poverty to severe health issues, no challenge could deter these students who overcame all hurdles to score well in ICSE and ISC exams, turning their results into tales of grit and determination.Uday Vir Yaduka of DPS Newtown School, who scored 86.2% in ISC, with 93 in physics and 97 in computer science, has spasticity…
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Wednesday found no intention to hurt religious sentimenta in a comedy TV show dialogue “Ya Allah! Rasgulla! Dahi Bhalla!” and quashed a 2010 FIR against actors Shekhar Suman and Bharati Singh. The HC cautioned against casual invocation of criminal law against artists.The dialogue was in a TV show broadcast…
New Delhi: Delhi University colleges have proposed infrastructure projects worth over Rs 1,900 crore under Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA), with multiple proposals at different stages of approval. Ramanujan College has already secured a Rs 178.3-crore sanction for a major campus upgrade.According to official documents, Ramanujan College has been sanctioned a term loan for construction…
Chennai: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has introduced a QR code-based photo identity card module to eliminate the possibility of unauthorised persons entering counting centres. There are 62 counting centres across Tamil Nadu.An ECI statement said that three-tier security mechanism has been prescribed for the verification of identity at counting centres. At the first…
Patna: Circle officers (COs) and revenue officials called off their indefinite strike (mass leave), which had continued since March 9, after talks with revenue and land reforms department secretary Jai Singh on Thursday.It is learned that a consensus has been reached with the govt following negotiations on their demands. Consequently, the Bihar Joint Revenue Service…
Bokaro: Two persons were killed and five others were injured when a passenger bus collided with a car in Giridih district on Thursday. The incident took place at Lal Bazar area under Dhanwar police station limits around 5 am.Police said the bus was headed towards to Khorimahua when it collided head-on with the car which…
Hazaribag: The accident-prone Danua valley stretch on GT Road, where seven people lost their lives this week in three separate road accidents, is likely to undergo structural changes to improve safety.Gobind Sagar Bharadwaj, the director of the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), on April 28 wrote a letter to Hazaribag project director of National Highways…
NEW DELHI: For the second successive year, Kailash Manasarovar Yatra, organised by ministry of external affairs in coordination with Chinese govt, will take place from June to Aug 2026. The Yatra had been reopened by China last year amid signs of improvement in bilateral ties, following completion of the troop disengagement process in eastern Ladakh.This…
