Ranchi: Ranchi MP and Union Minister of State for Defence Sanjay Seth on Tuesday introduced “Namo Stall” in Ranchi under the PM SVANidhi Scheme in presence of other BJP ministers. He distributed pushcarts with storage capacity and weighing scales to 5 per cent of street vendors in the initial phase.Seth said the initiative is aimed…
An armoured vehicle and CAPF personnel on patrol in Kolkata Tuesday Kolkata: West Bengal’s final phase of assembly polls unfolds under a security grid rarely seen in Indian elections, stretching across 142 constituencies in seven districts. Numbers define the scale – over 2.3 lakh Central Armed Police Forces personnel, 38,297 state police, 142 general observers,…
Kolkata: Lucky electors, whose appeals for restoration of their voting rights were cleared by the tribunals, felt they had a “much bigger responsibility” now as they could finally be able to vote despite the initial hurdles. In the previous elections, some of them had skipped voting but this time, they said, they would definitely vote…
Mumbai: Rejecting a plea by the former chairman and the former vice-chairman of the fraud-hit New India Cooperative Bank to allow them to appear through video conferencing from the UK, a magistrate court held that “such kind of abysmal entitlement shown by the accused cannot be entertained”. It said were such pleas to be allowed,…
New Delhi: The environment department has prepared a draft Delhi State Action Plan on Climate Change (SPACC) 2.0, which has been submitted to the Union ministry of environment, forests and climate change for approval. The last such plan came into force in 2019 and was based on the data up to 2011.Officials said the new…
Chennai: Madras high court on Tuesday dismissed a plea seeking direction to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to obtain an undertaking from candidates contesting in two constituencies, requiring them to reimburse election expenses if they resign from one seat.The first bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G Arul Murugan passed the…
Patna: CM Samrat Choudhary on Tuesday inaugurated the newly constructed technology centre at Bihta in Patna and also its four allied extension centres in the districts concerned through remote control. Their establishment and opening have been facilitated with assistance from the Union ministry of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME).The four extension centres of the…
Ranchi: City police are planning to intensify vigil at the picturesque Dhurwa dam in the wake of recovery of four bodies from the water body in the past four months, with the latest on Tuesday.In view of the incidents at the dam under Nagri police station limits, police have geared up to take preventive measures…
Jamshedpur: With the mercury hovering at 42 degrees Celsius, electricity consumption has increased tremendously in the Kolhan division. Increasing loads on transmission cables, frequent tripping and transformer breakdowns have caused long power outages in different parts of the city over the past two days.The Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam Ltd (JBVNL) Jamshedpur division officials have said…
An S-400 air defence system New Delhi: Russia has shipped the fourth batch of S-400 Triumf defence system that “will reach India by mid-May” soon after the May 7 anniversary of Operation Sindoor, a defence source told TOI. The fifth S-400 system is expected to arrive in India in November. The Russian S-400 system proved…
