Patna: Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted the Slovakian Parliament speaker, Richard Raši, a traditional delicacy, ‘thekua’, during his recent visit there. PM Modi also presented him the Susruta Samhita, a foundational ancient Ayurvedic text attributed to the physician Susruta and considered one of the earliest and most important works on surgery.Earlier, PM Modi gifted Bihar’s…
Vivek Aggarwal, secretary, government of India India has secured a key position in the leadership of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), with senior bureaucrat Vivek Aggarwal elected as vice president of the global watchdog responsible for combating money laundering and terrorist financing. Announcing the development on X, ministry of external affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal…
Kolkata: No punitive or coercive action will be taken against govt employees who do not do yoga on International Day of Yoga; their participation is not mandatory, state govt told Calcutta High Court on Friday.The state coordination committee of the govt employees had approached the single bench of Justice Amrita Sinha, where their lawyer, senior…
BEST employees continue their indefinite strike for a second day (File photo, Image enhanced with AI) MUMBAI: Despite appeals from the Maharashtra transport minister and the invocation of the Maharashtra Essential Services Maintenance Act (MESMA), employees of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking continued their indefinite strike for the second consecutive day on…
New Delhi: Delhi forest department has now imposed a fine of Rs 15.3 lakh on DCM Limited for illegal felling of three trees and victimisation of 67 trees at Central Square Complex on Manohar Lal Khurana Marg in 2024. DCM Limited has also been asked to plant 50 saplings of native species as compensatory plantation.The…
Chennai: Several banners and hoardings erected across the city were knocked off during the rain on Thursday, endangering the lives and limbs of road-users and residents. The local bodies have now begun a drive to remove all the illegal structures across the city.At Maduravoyal, a steel advertisement structure fell on an electricity distribution structure near…
PATNA: A court in Bihar on Saturday granted interim relief to educator Faisal Khan, popularly known as “Khan Sir” while hearing his anticipatory bail plea in a case registered against him.During the hearing, the court upheld its earlier order directing that no coercive action be taken against Khan Sir until the next date of hearing….
Average of 30,500 pedestrians killed on roads annually between 2019-24 NEW DELHI: More than 1.8 lakh pedestrians were killed in road crashes across India between 2019 and 2024, averaging over 30,500 deaths annually, underscoring their vulnerability as the most at-risk category of road users. Govt data show that the National Highway (NH) network accounted for…
The 468-m bridge over Balsaon river at Dudhia, connecting Siliguri with Mirik, was washed away on Friday after a surge in the water level triggered by heavy rain Darjeeling: Incessant rain in Darjeeling district triggered landslides and flash floods on Friday, snapping a key road link between the hills and the plains, disrupting transport and…
MUMBAI: An adult leopard was seen on CCTV footage attacking a dog inside the IIT-Bombay campus in Powai in the wee hours of Friday.A resident lecturer informed that the leopard came inside a staff hostel at around 2.30 am and attacked a local community dog, and later dragged it away towards the bushes.No humans were…
