Ranchi: Gender equity and inclusivity are set to become central to the everyday culture of classrooms across Jharkhand. The Jharkhand Education Project Council (JEPC) has extended its collaboration with the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), a US-based global non-profit research institute, to advance gender-responsive and inclusive education across the state.In a statement, JEPC…
Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar being felicitated at the event on Wednesday Ranchi: Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Mesra, on Wednesday announced setting up of a Centre of Excellence featuring eight high-performance computing systems powered by Nvidia B200 GPUs.Accessible to authorised users via public IP-based access, the facility aims to foster wider participation among faculty, researchers,…
EC releases revised SIR schedule for electoral rolls NEW DELHI: The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday released a revised schedule for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in six states, updating the dates for draft publication and final electoral rolls.The revised schedule covers Delhi, Karnataka, Telangana, Punjab, Haryana and Andhra Pradesh. The exercise…
Kolkata: Eleven under-construction highrise buildings received the go-ahead to resume full-fledged construction on Tuesday after a high-powered committee constituted to conduct an audit of projects cleared them.However, work remained suspended at 125 other project sites that the expert inspection team had visited after anomalies were detected in labour issues and use of deep tube well…
Indian cities face recurring costs from pothole repairs on asphalt roads. Year after year Indian cities spend hundreds of crores on filling up potholes that reappear with the next bout of heavy rain.Roads are tarred before the monsoon, only to crack, cave in and develop potholes in weeks. Emergency tenders are floated, traffic crawls, commuters…
The spot where a 12-year-old girl died after a school bus collided with the e-rickshaw near the Majlis Park metro station in Delhi New Delhi: A 12-year-old girl lost her life after being run over by a school bus near Majlis Park Metro station in northwest Delhi Tuesday morning. The bus first hit an e-rickshaw…
CPM state secretary P Shanmugam CHENNAI: CPM on Wednesday urged the Tamil Nadu govt to immediately appeal against the Supreme Court’s order directing the eviction of encroachers in the Srivilliputhur-Megamalai Tiger Reserve. CPM state secretary P Shanmugam criticized the Supreme Court order to deploy paramilitary forces for the eviction drive. He called the measure excessively…
Health minister Nishant Kumar Patna: Health minister Nishant Kumar on Wednesday directed that no patient’s surgery should be unnecessarily delayed. To address the backlog, he ordered that pending surgeries from district medical colleges and hospitals be referred to premier institutions such as IGIMS, AIIMS-Patna and Jay Prabha Medanta Super Specialty Hospital, Patna.District medical colleges have…
Hazaribag: A month-long drinking water quality testing campaign across all 16 blocks of Hazaribag district has found all 15,529 samples collected from different sources to be within prescribed safety limits, officials said on Wednesday.The exercise was conducted by the drinking water and sanitation department on the directions of deputy commissioner Hemant Sati to assess drinking…
Garhwa: Govt-run Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) in Karondhi reopened on Tuesday, 17 days after it was closed following a case of food poisoning which left 71 hostels students, ill on June 26 after allegedly drinking contaminated water.Before to its reopening, district education officer Jaggarnath Lohra met the school management, teachers and guardians of students…
