Ranchi: Jharkhand State Disaster Management Authority (JSDMA) on Tuesday decided to increase the ex-gratia amount from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 4 lakh for the kin of victims who died in road accidents. The decision to increase the amount was taken following a meeting of JSDMA which was also attended by disaster management department minister…
Bokaro: A 24-year-old man was allegedly killed near Chadra bridge at Azad Nagar village in Giridih district on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday, police said.The deceased was identified as Taufiq Ansari, police added.Officer in-charge of the Pachamba police station, Rajiv Kumar, said, “Family members of the deceased told us that Taufiq left home…
It is about karma and dharma. Subrata Thakur is far more at ease when asked about the principles of the Matua community and how its history evolved from the days of Harichand Thakur and Guruchand Thakur.Subrata, grandson of P R Thakur and Matua matriarch Baroma Binapani Devi, explains how his family prioritised not only social…
Kolkata: After liquor, Election Commission has asked eateries that are within 100 metres of polling booth to stay closed. However, the 100-metre rule would vary from constituency to constituency. This has resulted in closure of more than 400 prominent eateries across the city on April 29 and, for some, both on April 28 and 29.According…
Mumbai: The newly completed Missing Link of the Mumbai-Pune Expressway will officially be inaugurated by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on May 1, as reported by TOI, but regular motorists will be able to use the route only from late that night, with full public access effectively beginning from the morning of May 2.“After the inaugural…
NEW DELHI: CBI has filed two fresh FIRs and taken over investigation of corruption cases which were earlier being investigated by Delhi govt’s Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) and involved a now-deceased man who was also a close relative of former CM Arvind Kejriwal.The first case is against Kamal Singh of M/s Kamal Singh and govt officials….
Chennai: District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has directed Saveetha Dental College and Hospital and Saveetha Medical College and Hospital to pay 7.1 lakh to a Chennai resident after a dental instrument slipped into her husband’s digestive tract during a root canal procedure in Aug 2025. Holding the hospitals guilty of medical negligence and deficiency in…
In a brazen act of violence, two individuals sustained injuries during a daylight shooting on the notorious Bakhtiyarpur-Harnaut road. Assailants on a motorcycle unleashed gunfire near a petrol station, severely wounding one man with multiple shots to his chest, while a passerby suffered a shoulder injury. Both victims were swiftly transported to a nearby hospital….
Hazaribag: A day after bodies of three missing persons, including two women, were recovered in a mutilated state from a river in Pauta under Mufassil police station limits, health minister Irfan Ansari on Tuesday met the police and took stock of the probe.The deceased were identified as Saniya Parveen and Khushi Parveen, both 19 years…
Ranchi: Nearly 78,000 personnel will be engaged for the Census enumeration in Jharkhand, as the state is gearing up to roll out phase one of the exercise from May 1.Unlike the previous Census, this time, the exercise — part of the nationwide initiative — will begin with self-enumeration in the phase one process.The first phase…
