Dilip KumarBettiah: Jungle safari and other tourism activities at Valmiki Tiger Reserve (VTR) in West Champaran will remain suspended from June 29 to September 30 due to the monsoon and wildlife breeding season, officials said on Wednesday.West Champaran conservator of forests-cum-director Gaurav Ojha said the decision was taken in line with guidelines of the National…
Ramgarh: In a boost to the power infrastructure of Jharkhand, the second 800 MW unit of Patratu Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited’s (PVUNL) super-thermal power plant in Ramgarh district began is commercial operations from Thursday.The first unit of the plant began commercial operations on November 5 last year. Notably, the PVUNL is a joint venture of…
NEW DELHI: A 38-year-old woman arrested in Jaipur last week was planning to travel to Pakistan to marry a close associate of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar, officials said on Thursday.The woman, identified as Babita Dhakar alias “Khadija”, allegedly intended to enter Pakistan via Nepal. She had been under surveillance by military intelligence agencies for…
The workshop was held recently in the Sundarbans Kolkata: A community culinary excellence initiative — a two day transformative capacity-building workshop — was implemented at BaghBon ,the Multipurpose Community Resource Centre of a city-based NGO in the Sundarbans to equip communities residing in the forest-fringe villages of the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve with advanced culinary skills,…
21-year-old Mayank Lohar was killed by a co-traveller on a local train over a trivial dispute on keeping the compartment door shut. His family has demanded strictest punishment possible for the perpetrator Mumbai: The family of Mayank Lohar, who was stabbed to death by a co-passenger over a trivial dispute late on Tuesday, questioned how…
A cab driver, allegedly high on marijuana, abducted an 11-year-old girl from a Delhi pavement, raped and murdered her in a forest patch, then cleaned his car and picked up another passenger NEW DELHI: Stoned on marijuana and operating in the dead of night, a cab driver allegedly pulled an 10-year-old girl away from her…
The photo that environmental activist Bharathidasan took of a slender loris that was electrocuted In March, Tamil Nadu established India’s first slender loris conservation centre at Kadavur. But it was a chance photograph and post by environmental activist S Bharathidasan that turned out to be a real lifesaver for the nocturnal primate.Around two months ago,…
Patna: Revenue and land reforms minister, Dilip Kumar Jaiswal, on Wednesday said the govt is planning to convert ‘Khasmahal’ land into freehold and launch ‘Basera-3’ to give land to those who had previously received allotment certificates (parchas) but could not secure its actual possession.Replying to a question during a press meet to highlight his department’s…
CBI raids over 80 locations across 16 States in digital arrest scam crackdown; 2 arrested New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday conducted searches at 80 locations across 16 states as part of a nationwide crackdown on a network allegedly involved in digital arrest scams that targeted hundreds of victims using a…
Kalyani: TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar arrives in Kalyani to attend West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari’s administrative meeting involving Nadia, Hooghly and North 24 Parganas districts on Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (Photo: IANS) Kolkata: Responding to Trinamool Krishnanagar MP Mahua Moitra’s repeated barbs, rebel MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on Wednesday said that calling the…
