NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday message for Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan by asking whether the prime minister had “spared a thought” for aspirants whose deaths by suicide were linked to the NEET-UG paper leak.“Each name on this list was a child with a dream,…
Kolkata: An 11-year-old boy in Joynagar was allegedly abused by a local man after a minor accident during play.The boy was playing with friends after school when a stick in his hand accidentally hit a passerby, Tapan Haldar. Haldar allegedly dragged the boy by his hair, made him do sit-ups in public, then took him…
Social media trial affecting our lives and jobs, says kin of Mumbai local train stabbing accused MUMBAI: As Roshan Suvarna remains in police custody for allegedly stabbing co-passenger Mayank Lohar to death on a Mumbai local train, his family says they have become victims of what they describe as a “social media trial”.While insisting they…
New Delhi: Two members of Lawrence Bishnoi Gang were arrested in connection with the firing outside a gym allegedly owned by a singer June 11.The accused were identified as Hakikat and Sagar. Sources said a special cell team had received information about their movement in west Delhi area and laid a trap. They were intercepted,…
Venkat Narayana K and Vijay CHENNAI: Vijay-starrer Jana Nayagan movie producer Venkat Narayana K has been appointed as a special representative of the Tamil Nadu govt in New Delhi.“Sanction is accorded for the creation of a temporary post of special representative of the govt of Tamil Nadu in New Delhi for a period of one…
Patna: Expressing displeasure over the “high-handedness” of the Bihar Police in seizing a truck in Gopalganj nearly 10 months ago merely on a “liquor-like smell feeling” of an erring police officer, the Patna high court has imposed a cost of Rs 2 lakh on the state govt, to be paid to the vehicle owner.A division…
Bokaro: The Bokaro administration has decided to intensify checks on drunk driving and make alcohol testing compulsory in all road accident investigations to curb the rising number of accidents.Dhanbad deputy commissioner Ajay Nath Jha on Friday said, “All police stations and traffic units have been instructed to verify whether drivers involved in accidents, victims or…
Chatra: An unidentified woman’s body was recovered from a water-filled abandoned stone mine in Chatra district on Friday.The body was found floating in stagnant water inside the closed quarry near Jajlo market under Hunterganj police station limits. According to police, villagers spotted the body in the morning and alerted the authorities.A police team, led by…
Supreme Court had held suo motu hearings over the earlier ‘judicial corruption’ chapter NEW DELHI: A new NCERT textbook has described the judiciary as an “impartial and independent institution”, months after the Supreme Court objected to a section on alleged “corruption in the judiciary” in an NCERT Class 8 textbook.The Class 9 social science textbook…
Lightning streaks across the sky during rain over the city, in Kolkata……Subhojyoti Kanjilal Kolkata: Tall, dark cumulonimbus clouds (CB) exploded on Kolkata on Thursday, triggering the heaviest 24-hour rain this June in the city. Alipore recorded 84.6 mm of rain. While the downpour forced the mercury to plunge by around six degrees within an hour,…
