File photo of Rath Yatra in Ranchi Ranchi: The district administration has begun groundworks for the annual Jagannath Rath Yatra in Dhurwa. With the festival less than six weeks away, Ranchi deputy commissioner (DC) Manjunath Bhajantri, at a meeting earlier this week, asked all departments to complete infrastructure and safety-related works in time.The focus of…
Ranchi: Over a third of drinking water sources in Dhanbad district’s Gharbar panchayat are contaminated with fluoride, sometimes up to 10 times over the permissible limit, affecting over 14,000 villagers, a study has found.The School of Environmental Studies at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, along with Megh Pyne Abhiyan (MPA), an NGO, recently published the report in…
G7 Summit (Image source: ANI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join leaders from the United States, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates at a West Asia-focused meeting on the sidelines of the G7 Summit next week, according to French diplomatic sources.The discussions are expected to focus on regional stability and the impact of…
KOLKATA: At a time when the FIFA World Cup is expanding its footballing map, Kolkata-based notaphilist Anindya Kar has built a paper trail of the tournament through currency.Kar’s collection brings together bank notes representing all 48 participating countries of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, turning the expanded tournament into a compact archive of national identity,…
As the injured individuals did not wish to lodge a formal complaint, no FIR was registered, police said Mumbai: A man and a woman, both aged 24, were injured after a BEST electric bus brushed them while they were crossing the road near Poisar depot in Kandivli West on Monday. CCTV footage of the incident…
Representative image generated using AI NEW DELHI: A 27-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly killing his friend near Khajuri Khas Metro Station in northeast Delhi following a dispute that broke out while the two were consuming cannabis, police said on Thursday.The accused, Shifayat, a resident of Chand Bagh in northeast Delhi, was arrested in…
Tamil Nadu’s echool education minister Rajmohan announced that all teacher vacancies in government schools will be filled soon to prevent disruption to student education. Source link
PATNA: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad celebrated his 79th birthday on Thursday, with party workers and supporters holding events across Bihar to mark the occasion.One such celebration in Vaishali district grabbed attention after an RJD worker fell while cutting a cake atop a JCB machine.RJD worker Kedar Yadav…
Vishvendu JaipuriarChatra: A youth was detained by the police and let off with a stern warning for allegedly shooting reels on police station premises. The youth, identified as Mukesh Kumar and a resident from Pratappur block, was briefly detained on Thursday after he shot videos on the premises of Pratappur and Kunda police stations and…
Ranchi: To protect students, teachers and commuters from the perennial problem of waterlogging, mainly outside educational institutions, the Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) has launched a pre-monsoon drive across the city.Under the special initiative, a thorough desilting and cleaning operation will be carried out across all drains within a 500-metre radius of the approach roads to…
