Gumla: A 24-year-old woman of Navatoli in Simdega district was shot dead allegedly by a Bihar resident early Saturday after her family refused his marriage proposal, police said.The deceased was identified as Jeba Praveen.Quoting the deceased’s father, Md Hussain, officer in-charge of the Kolebira police station Harsh Kumar said, “Jeba Praveen befriended the accused, a…
Ranchi: The police on Saturday claimed to have arrested Abhishek Kumar alias Suraj Singh, a shooter who was wanted in the murder of land dealer Anil Tiger in Kanke on March 26, 2025, from Hatiara in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. Singh was also wanted in an attempt to murder trader Radheshyam Sahu…
CHANDIGARH: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday said his party would not allow even a single genuine vote to be deleted in the state under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process. Warning against any attempt to engineer “fake votes” in favour of a particular political party, Mann asserted that AAP leaders and workers would…
Kolkata: The newly elected Bengal govt will use the voters’ list created out of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls ahead of the assembly polls to prune names of deceased or relocated individuals whose names continue to feature as beneficiaries of state govt schemes.Directions to the effect have been issued to DMs who…
Mumbai: An eight-year-old girl was killed in a road crash involving a cement mixer in Sakinaka recently. The girl was seated pillion on her father’s motorcycle when the cement mixer brushed the two-wheeler, police said.Aahana Shaikh, the victim, lived with her parents and two siblings at Powai. Four days before the road crash, she had…
New Delhi: From the son of a cinema hall operator in Bihar’s Motihari to an RJD politician allegedly running an admission fraud network, Santosh Kumar Jaiswal’s rise was significant. It is now under scrutiny following his arrest by Delhi Police.New Delhi: From the son of a cinema hall operator in Bihar’s Motihari to a politician…
Chennai: School managements across the state will be buried in work over the next ten days as students are all set for the reopening day on June 1. From readying warehouses, removing electricity cables and closing septic tanks to painting school name boards and stocking rations, the school education department has instructed school heads to…
Patna: Bihar is not limited to litti-chokha, Champaran mutton, ‘thekua’ and makhana. The state’s culinary tradition is much more diverse, and to highlight this, the Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) has submitted a proposal to the urban development and housing department to establish street food hubs under the PM SVANidhi scheme.This initiative aims to organise street…
NEW DELHI: The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet on Saturday approved key appointments in the National Testing Agency (NTA) under the department of higher education amid the ongoing NEET-UG 2026 paper leak row and growing scrutiny of the examination body. Anuja Bapat, an Indian Statistical Service (ISS) officer of the 1998 batch, and Ruchita Vij,…
Kolkata: BJP’s Bengal unit announced on Friday that it would not induct any new members at the moment, at the party’s first formal organisational meeting after the May 4 election results.Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said induction of members from other political parties was prohibited at the moment and any functionary attempting such induction would…
