The government on Wednesday said that no cases of Ebola have been reported in the country so far, according to sources cited by ANI.The ministry of health and family welfare said that no case of Ebola has been detected in India so far, while adding that surveillance and preparedness measures have been strengthened nationwide following…
Kolkata: An expanding probe into alleged illegal assets in West Bengal has brought a string of properties linked to individuals with alleged Trinamool Congress affiliations under scrutiny. On Monday, CM Suvendu Adhikari alleged that Beleghata-based promoter Raju Naskar owned 18 properties, land shark Biswajit Poddar, better known as Sona Pappu, held 24 properties, and Faiz…
Clara LewisMumbai: City environmentalists and activists have taken strong objection to the proposal by a BJP worker to rename Sanjay Gandhi National Park as Atal Bihari Vajpayee Park (ABVP) by dropping the word “national” and to build an integrated township and a university inside the park.Activists alleged there is a pattern to the development-led destruction…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked authorities not to take coercive action against dwellers who have been told to vacate three slum clusters near the Prime Minister’s residence on Lok Kalyan Marg.The court told the authorities not to act till the slum residents respond to the court’s offer of monitoring and ensuring that…
Chola-era Anaimangalam copper plates from the Netherlands were returned to India in May 2026 S Vijay KumarFor more than a decade, I have campaigned for the return of the two sets of Chola copper plates held by Leiden University Library in the Netherlands. Their handover is a moment of immense satisfaction, for Tamil Nadu, for…
Image used for representation Begusarai: National Thermal Power Corporation’s Barauni unit was honoured with the ‘Platinum Award’ under the corporate social responsibility (CSR) category by the Apex India Foundation during its two-day summit in Goa on May 18 and 19.NTPC Barauni deputy manager Umesh Nigam said on Wednesday that the award was conferred for its…
Jamshedpur: Sixmembers belonging to the Manish Singh gang were arrested in coordinated raids across police station limits on Tuesday in the May 15 shooting case at a Jugsalai-based readymade garments store, police said on Wednesday.SP (City) Lalit Meena said, “The attackers targeted the garment store to terrorise its owner, Dinesh Kumar, after he refused to…
Ranchi: Patients across Ranchi and other parts of Jharkhand faced inconvenience on Wednesday as medical stores remained closed in response to a nationwide strike call by the All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD).The Jharkhand Chemists and Druggists Association (JCDA) had announced on Tuesday that over one lakh medicine shops across the state would…
West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari The BJP government in West Bengal has, within days of assuming office, rolled out a series of high-impact administrative, welfare and governance decisions aimed at signalling a policy break from the previous Trinamool Congress regime. The measures span welfare restructuring, recruitment reforms, reservation policy changes, scrutiny of caste certificates, educational…
Kolkata: Along with Chingrighata, cops have granted RVNL another long-pending permission for Orange Line metro work — to bridge a 120m viaduct gap on VIP Road. The seven pillars have been standing near Haj House at Kaikhali on VIP Road. In an order on May 13, Bidhannagar Police allowed Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL), which…
