Kolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari announced on Monday that Bengali will become mandatory for all official work in the state from Sept 1, a day after Union home minister Amit Shah suggested the move in a letter to him.“From Sept 1, 2026, the use of Bengali will be compulsory in govt work at all levels….
Mumbai: On Monday, at least ten people were left severely injured and one dead after a BEST bus crashed into a roadside divider on the Sion-Panvel Highway in Mankhurd. Eight injured were passengers inside the bus, one was a driver and another a conductor, while the deceased was a pedestrian.Bhaskar Raosaheb Kagade, a 65-year-old farmer…
New Delhi: Lady Shri Ram College (LSR) is strengthening higher education-industry linkages by bringing companies and institutions into its research ecosystem, a move aimed at benefiting students.The college has surveyed nearly 200 stakeholders across sectors to identify research problems that students in the fourth-year research programme can work on. The majority expressed willingness to collaborate,…
Dense tree cover keeps the farm 3°C cooler than surrounding areas, allowing Valluvan to cultivate coffee and apple Protecting soil is the duty of every farmer, says V T Valluvan. On his 36-acre farm at Vettaikaranpudur near Pollachi in Coimbatore, he has done just that, raising soil organic carbon from 0.5% to 3.4%, cutting water…
Madhubani: Personnel of the 48th Battalion of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) arrested a woman smuggler and seized 267.8 litres of Nepalese liquor and beer during an anti-smuggling operation along the India-Nepal border in the early hours of Monday.Acting on a tip-off, SSB jawans deployed under the Pipraun Company launched a search operation around 4.25am….
Dumka: A resident of Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh attacked his wife and mother-in-law with a sharp-edged weapon at Rasulpur Dahla late Sunday, leaving both seriously injured, police said on Monday.Rukhsana Khatun, 30, married Mohammad Sharif around four months ago but was staying at her parental home in Sahibganj. Mohammad reportedly arrived in Sahibganj a week…
Voters at Guru Nanak Higher Secondary School to submit their SIR forms Ranchi: A large number of urban voters are yet to be traced under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls despite repeated door-to-door verification, with booth-level officers (BLOs) saying many such electors may have to be placed in the absent, shifted, dead…
The Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) with Pakistan will no longer function in its present form, the government has concluded hardening its position on the contentious water issue amid little indication of Islamabad discontinuing its covert backing of cross-border terrorism. India is not yet actively considering abandoning the World Bank-brokered 1960 Treaty – an option it…
Fans wait for the next world cup Kolkata: For the past one and half months, evenings had a fixed routine. Dinner was planned well ahead kick-off times, sleep schedules were abandoned, WhatsApp groups buzzed through the night and neighbourhoods echoed with cheers and groans till dawn.Then, on Sunday night, Spain’s 1-0 victory over Argentina in…
Kalyan: Three young men from Mumbai’s Malad were rescued after they got stranded on the steep slopes of Malanggad in Ambernath late on Sunday night while attempting a trek inspired by social media reels.The trio had ventured to the hill after watching reels on social media showcasing the trek but lost their way during the…
