Dumka: The income tax department on Saturday carried out simultaneous searches at the residences of the mukhiya of Balathar panchayat under Mohanpur block in Deoghar district. The operation was conducted at the Mukhiya’s residence in Mohanpur and Baijnathpur under the Kunda police station limits.Officials from Patna, Dhanbad, and Deoghar, started checks of the financial records,…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Saugata Roy on Saturday alleged that the BJP was attempting to take control of the party’s offices across West Bengal, a day after TMC’s rebel faction took possession of the Mamata Banerjee-led party’s office in Kolkata.Reacting to the development, Roy dismissed rebel faction leader Ritabrata Banerjee’s claim that the…
Kolkata: IIT Kharagpur, which introduced alternative admission pathways apart from the usual JEE Advanced route for its BTech and BS programmes, have admitted 15 students in its BTech courses through Sports Excellence Admission (SEA) and Science Olympiad Excellence Admission (SCOPE) in this academic year. “Twelve students have got admission with science olympiad achievements and three…
Visitors watch waves crash against the Marine Drive promenade under dark monsoon skies Photograph by SL Shanth Kumar/TNN MUMBAI: “Bro yeh har saal ka hai, Andheri subway shut hi hoga,” Mumbaikars barely flinch when the season’s first spell of heavy rain arrives.Social media fills up with memes about flooded roads, stranded commuters and delayed local…
Former students say it was the small, everyday moments with Dr Debosmita Paul that stayed with them long after graduation. NEW DELHI: “Look at Vriti,” Dr Debosmita Paul had said casually during one of our very first online classes in college. “I want all of you to always carry a pen and paper with you,…
Suburban train in Chennai Chennai: Commuters on the city’s suburban rail network are likely to face inconvenience on July 5 and 12 (next two Sundays) with Southern Railway cancelling 41 EMU services for five hours to facilitate engineering works between Chennai Beach and Tambaram.A release said that the line and power block has been permitted…
Patna: Police raided a hotel near Gandhi Maidan in Patna late Thursday night after receiving a tip-off about an alleged flesh trade racket operating from the premises. Ten women and one man were detained from a room while the hotel operator fled.Police said those inside the room were consuming liquor and partying when the raid…
Daltonganj: A zonal commander of the banned CPI (Maoist), identified as Baijnath Singh alias Chandan Kharwar, 52, was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment by a Latehar court on Friday, police said.Additional district and sessions judge (first) also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on Singh. He was sentenced in a case registered in 2023…
Daltonganj: The Mehta family in Palamu’s Sikka village, whose five members died in eight days due to consumption of adulterated mustard oil, did not buy from the market but cultivated both mustard and argemone. Later, mustard and argemone oil was extracted at a local unit, Palamu civil surgeon Dr Anil Kumar Srivastava said on Saturday.Addressing…
Indians are increasingly moving away from traditionally mainstream and for many the “only choice of engineering & medicine” “My son will become an engineer.”“My daughter will be a doctor.”For decades, statements like these defined middle-class ambition in India.From coaching centres to family gatherings, engineering and medicine became shorthand for success; careers that promised stable incomes,…
