Gaya: Chief minister Samrat Choudhary on Monday laid the foundation stone for a Rs170-crore technology centre in Khizarsarai area of Gaya district. Once constructed, the centre will train 7,000 entrepreneurs every year in fields including general and heavy engineering and textiles.To be built on 20 acres, the technology centre will have state-of-the-art training facilities and…
Bank officials attend the SLBC meeting in Ranchi Ranchi: Banks operating in the state have reported a decline of 15.81% in the non-performing assets (NPA) even though the NPA of several govt schemes have gone up.The state level bankers’ committee (SLBC) report has stated the total bank credit at the end of 2025-26 was Rs…
Daltonganj: In a rare instance of community cooperation, villagers of Sohdaag Khurd under Nawa Bazar block in Palamu district have voluntarily withdrawn from cultivating around seven acres of forest land they had been using for years to make way for a nursery of the forest department.Despite repeated warnings from the department, the locals had been…
NEW DELHI: Karnataka home minister Priyank Kharge on Monday wrote to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat seeking detailed disclosures on the organisation’s legal status, finances, organisational structure and tax compliance. In an open letter addressed to Bhagwat that Priyank Kharge posted on X, he congratulated the organisation on its centenary but argued that…
Kolkata: A clash over alleged “negative feedback” given to potential clients about gym facilities escalated into violence in Behala Parnasree, leading to a case and a counter-case being registered by the police.The incident, which took place on the evening of June 12, left multiple people injured and resulted in allegations of wrongful restraint, assault, and…
Mumbai: Unauthorised absence from work by a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) official would be detrimental to the public interest and amount to grave misconduct, the Bombay High Court said, refusing relief to an employee who was removed from service.The petitioner, Animesh Bakuli, was a senior assistant with the RBI and would undoubtedly be occupying…
NEW DELHI: India’s groundwater crisis is becoming increasingly severe, with several regions reporting alarming levels of depletion, drinking water shortages and contamination. Among the major cities, Hyderabad has become India’s worst-affected metropolitan region for groundwater depletion, overtaking larger cities such as Delhi and Mumbai, according to the Dynamic Groundwater Resource Assessment Report 2025 released by…
Chennai: An unidentified man died after being run over by a speeding truck while attempting to cross a median on Surya Narayana Chetty Street in Royapuram on Saturday night. Police are yet to establish the identity of the victim.Police said the man was trying to reach the other side of the road and noticed a…
The library houses around 21,000 manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Turkish, Pashto, Sanskrit and Hindi Patna: A 9th-century Quran written on deer skin, manuscripts embellished with gold and rare texts with no known copies elsewhere in the world are among the treasures preserved at Patna’s Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, one of India’s most significant…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday described India and Slovakia as partners with “shared trust, shared priorities, and a shared future” as the two countries elevated their relationship to a Comprehensive Partnership during his landmark visit to Bratislava, the first ever by an Indian Prime Minister to the Central European nation.Addressing a joint…
