Patna: Revenue and land reforms department secretary Jai Singh has asked officials concerned to complete the Bihar Special Survey and Settlement Programme by Aug 15, warning that negligence and delays will not be tolerated.Chairing a review meeting through videoconferencing on Friday, Singh assessed the progress of the survey in Arwal, Jehanabad, Sheikhpura, Lakhisarai and Sheohar…
NEW DELHI: At 213 marks, NEET-UG recorded its highest ever qualifying cutoff, even as the number of candidates clearing the medical entrance examination fell by 1.15 lakh, a divergence driven by a smaller-appearing pool and a sharp upward shift in the score distribution. Moreover, the total qualified candidates for EWS and OBC for the first…
Kolkata: Armed with eggs, a group of people protested outside former Rajarhat-New Town MLA Tapas Chatterjee’s home on Friday, shouting “chor, chor” as he prepared to join rebel TMC neta Ritabrata Banerjee’s camp. Police cleared the protesters, after which Chatterjee left for the Assembly and joined the camp. tnnhat. An hour later, he entered the…
Mumbai: A sessions court on Friday granted anticipatory bail to businessman Lokesh Onkarlal Jain in connection with the Rs 65 crore desilting scam involving the Mithi river probed by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW). Rejecting the need for custody, Additional Sessions Judge NG Shukla noted that the alleged conspiracy was said to have begun in…
New Delhi: To commemorate the centenary of the martyrdom of Sardar Teja Singh Samundri, lieutenant governor TS Sandhu, his grandson, organised a special Shabad Kirtan at Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib in the city Friday. Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) also held a commemorative function at Teja Singh Samundri Hall in Amritsar.The programme in Delhi was…
Manoj Kumar, executive director of SEBI Chennai: Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Friday said it has extensively deployed artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, with the technology generating a growing number of actionable alerts. These alerts have helped uncover patterns indicating instances of front-running in the portfolio management services (PMS) industry.“Recently, we…
Patna: Dairy, fisheries and animal resource department has proposed the formation of panchayat-level fisheries cooperative societies across 8,053 panchayats in the state. The department aims to establish these societies in a phased manner, with the first phase targeting more than 1,000 panchayats after receiving approval from the state cabinet.The cooperative societies will be registered through…
Ranchi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated redeveloped Piska and Muri railway stations under the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme (ABSS) on Friday. The two stations under the Ranchi division of the South Eastern Railway were among the 75 redeveloped Amrit Bharat stations that were virtually inaugurated by PM Modi.Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar, land and revenue…
NEW DELHI: NEET-UG’s nationwide attendance fall acquired a regional pattern in 2026, with Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka recording high absenteeism while Rajasthan expanded its candidate base and posted the strongest qualification rate among large states.Kerala had 1.14 lakh registrations, but only 84,664 candidates appeared, leaving 29,122 absent (25.6%). Tamil Nadu lost 33,893 of its…
Mangled remains of the pool car that met with the accident Behrampore: Four schoolchildren aged between seven and nine were killed when a passenger train rammed a pool car ferrying seven students at the Gobindapur railway gate near Karnasubarna station in Murshidabad on Friday morning. A 65-year-old cyclist, too, died on being knocked down by…
