Chennai: AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Wednesday urged the state and Centre to act on a war footing to offset the likely loss of around 600 govt medical seats if private medical colleges secure UGC approval to become deemed universities.Palaniswami said the conversion of private medical colleges into deemed universities would shrink TN’s…
Patna: The state cabinet on Wednesday approved the govt’s proposal to establish a Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) linking Patna with Gaya, Begusarai, Hajipur, Sonepur, Muzaffarpur and Ara to facilitate faster movement of passengers through four corridors on the pattern of the National Capital Region (NCR), Delhi. It also approved a proposal to set up…
Ranchi: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Wednesday arrested a man for his alleged involvement with the over 100-acre forest land scam in Tetuliya mauza of Bokaro district., it said in a statement. The accused, identified as Shailesh Kumar Singh, 59, was arrested from Bihar’s Patna.“During the investigation, it was found that the arrested accused,…
Ranchi: Despite the Union health ministry’s directive prohibiting over-the-counter sale of medicines such as cough syrups, pharmacies across the city continue to sell them without asking for a prescription. The health ministry in June amended drug regulations to end over-the-counter sale of cough syrups.TOI on Wednesday found that many pharmacies were selling cough syrups to…
ISRO carries out successful Gaganyaan main parachute test NEW DELHI: In another big step towards India’s first human spaceflight mission, Isro has successfully conducted a key test on the main parachutes for the crew module of the Gaganyaan programme. The test was carried out at Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment (ADRDE) drop zone in…
. The accused in the murder of a minor girl in Suryapur Baruipur are being taken to Court —- TOI Kolkata: Prabhas Mondal, 38, the first of the four men arrested in the Baruipur minor rape-and-murder case before being shot dead in the wee hours of Wednesday, was always flirting with the wrong side of…
The mangled SUV. A case has been filed against its driver Navi Mumbai: Two men were killed and five others, including a woman, were injured after an SUV in which they were travelling along the Mumbai-Pune Expressway crashed into a breakdown truck parked on the service road at the 25km-mark after crossing Madap tunnel near…
New Delhi: Party drugs worth nearly Rs 10 crore, including MDMA, were seized from southeast Delhi’s Amar Colony by police. A Nigerian national was detained during the raid and has been taken into custody for further investigation.According to sources, the Bengaluru Police had come to Delhi in connection with an ongoing investigation and were searching…
CHENNAI: India’s dream of a century of Grandmasters is now within touching distance. The country is just two GMs short of the milestone, with three players earning the title in the last 12 days. The latest is Tamil Nadu’s S Aswath, who became India’s 98th GM after securing his third and final norm at the…
Ara: A 34-year-old man was allegedly stabbed to death by unidentified miscreants at Badki Kharaon village under Sahar police station area in Bhojpur district on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Vikrant Kumar Singh, a resident of the village, who had an old land dispute with a co-villager, police said.According to the police, Vikrant…
