Chennai: A 45-year-old woman suffered burns after attempting to set herself on fire outside the Chief Minister’s Special Cell at the Secretariat on Monday morning.Police personnel on duty rescued her and rushed her to hospital. Preliminary inquiries revealed that she had come to submit a petition as a land dispute issue at her village near…
The shortlisted candidates underwent interviews and teaching ability tests conducted by the Bihar State University Service Commission (BSUSC) at three centres in the city from Monday to Sunday Patna: Nearly 8,000 candidates, including NET qualifiers and PhD holders from across the country, appeared for interviews in Patna last week for 2,532 contractual assistant professor posts,…
Jamshedpur and Deoghar ariport have become operational Ranchi: The civil aviation ministry on Monday informed that of the six airports in Jharkhand selected under the UDAN scheme, state govt has not provided land for redevelopment of Daltonganj and Hazaribag facilities. In response to a query from Rajya Sabha MP Parimal Nathwani, the ministry said that…
Ranchi residents caught in a spell of shower on Monday Ranchi: The Ranchi office of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday issued an orange alert for very heavy rainfall in four districts besides yellow alerts for heavy rain in 10 districts till Tuesday and yellow alert for heavy rain in 14 districts from Tuesday…
The apex court has issued notice to the Centre for its response NEW DELHI: Observing that there are “enormous issues” with the working of 10th Schedule, Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear senior advocate Kapil Sibal’s plea for interpretation of anti-defection law in order to curb illegal defections through the route of political party merger.Though…
The area in Behala where the incident happened Kolkata: A protest against late-night loud music turned violent in the Sanjib Pally area near Behala Chowrasta in the early hours of Sunday. A group of four men assaulted a local resident and attacked his 48-year-old mother after the latter objected to the loud music being played…
Water discharged from the Middle Vaitarna dam flows into Modak Sagar, one of the seven lakes that supply drinking water to Mumbai Mumbai: The BMC opened two gates of the Middle Vaitarna dam in the early hours of Monday after the reservoir’s water level touched 282 metres, reflecting the strong inflows from the ongoing southwest…
New Delhi: A 28-year-old man was killed in a hit-and-run after his Royal Enfield Bullet motorcycle was allegedly struck by a pickup truck that police suspect was being driven on the wrong side of the road in southwest Delhi’s Dwarka early Sunday. The truck driver is yet to be traced.Rohit, a resident of Najafgarh, worked…
Chennai: The bodies of two teenage girls were mistakenly exchanged and handed over to the wrong families after post-mortem examinations at Government Stanley Medical College Hospital, causing distress and confusion, the police said.The error came to light when one family discovered the mix-up after taking the body home for funeral preparations.Police said, Anushka, 19, from…
Experts at the NIT-P workshop on Monday Patna: Global greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced urgently if the world is to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, renowned climate scientist Alexander A Baklanov of the University of Copenhagen said at NIT Patna on Monday, warning that the global carbon budget is shrinking rapidly.Addressing the inaugural session…
