KOLKATA: An elderly woman who got lost more than two decades ago, and has been staying at a south Kolkata shelter home, was finally linked to her family at a village in Jharkhand. But her son refused to take her back because she is a Christian.Madan Besra, who lives in the same house from where…
MUMBAI: Carbon monoxide levels touching 3 mg per cubic metre — 50% higher than the permissible limit — ammonia spikes reaching 700 micrograms per cubic metre against a standard of 400, and hydrogen sulphide concentrations climbing to nearly 2 ppm, nearly 15 times the allowed limit, were recorded at two residential high-rises in Wadala during…
The incident took place at 9:50 am when the man climbed down from the platform onto the tracks (Representative image) NEW DELHI: A 45-year-old man died on Tuesday after he allegedly jumped in front of a train at Uttam Nagar East Metro station, police said. Police said information was received from the station controller at…
Picture of pilots, rescued after the accident (Image Credit: TOI) MUMBAI: Just over 12 hours after an air ambulance crash killed seven people in Jharkhand, another aviation accident was reported on Tuesday, this time involving a helicopter in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. In a relief, all seven persons on board escaped without fatalities after…
Gaya: Markandey Prasad Chandrawanshi, representative of Union MSME minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, died shortly after the conclusion of the Bodh Gaya Temple Advisory Board meeting held at a hotel in Bodh Gaya on Monday.Manjhi, who is the Gaya MP, serves as an ex officio member of the advisory board. As he had other engagements, he…
CHATRA: An air ambulance bound for New Delhi from Ranchi, which took off on Monday at around 7:11 pm, lost contact with air traffic control at around 7:34 pm and crashed in a forested area near Karmatand village, Chatra district, killing all seven people on board, including two crew members.Speaking to ANI, SP Sumit Kumar…
A medical evacuation flight from Ranchi to Delhi crashed in Jharkhand’s Chatra district on Monday evening, killing all seven people on board. (Image Credit: PTI) RANCHI/NEW DELHI: A medical evacuation flight from Ranchi to Delhi crashed in Jharkhand’s Chatra district on Monday evening, killing all seven people on board. The aircraft had requested deviation due…
AI image created by Chatgpt used for representational purpose only NEW DELHI: A newly introduced NCERT social science textbook for class 8 has outlined key challenges facing country’s judicial system, including corruption, a heavy backlog of cases and an inadequate number of judges.According to news agency PTI, the revised chapter, ‘The Role of the Judiciary…
Kolkata: Bengal govt has included stepchildren as well as widowed and divorced daughters as beneficiaries of death gratuity. A new notification issued on Monday amended the state’s death-cum-retirement benefit rules to expand the scope.The new rules state that in the event of an employee’s death, if no valid nomination for the gratuity exists, the funds…
Mumbai: After two days of satisfactory air, Mumbai’s air quality deteriorated sharply on Friday, with the city’s overall Air Quality Index (AQI) rising to 130 from 67 on Thursday and 70 on Wednesday — the steepest single-day spike recorded in the last three months. The reading pushed the city back into the moderate air category,…
