The constable, Abhishek Kumar, has been suspended and faces departmental proceedings NEW DELHI: Bihar government on Tuesday transferred 17 IPS officers, including the superintendents of police in Bhojpur and Siwan, where police action during recent student protests had sparked controversy.The development comes as the state government told the Supreme Court that a constable fired four…
The recent fire at a hotel in Tarapith has raised alarm bells for the local religious tourism industry KOLKATA: The hotel fire at Tarapith can impact a mutiple-crore religion-tourist circuit weeks before Kaushiki Amavasya, when the pilgrim economy, centred around Tarapith and extending to Nalhati, Bakreswar and Kankalitala, is expected to enter its peak season.The…
The Bombay High Court granted bail to Sachin Andure, convicted in the 2013 murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar (in picture). MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Tuesday granted bail to Sachin Andure, who was convicted in the 2013 murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar.Justices Sarang Kotwal and Ranjitsinha Bhonsale suspended Andure’s life sentence pending appeal and…
CJP’s chief spokesperson Saurav Das interacts with journalists in Delhi. NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) spokesperson Saurav Das on Tuesday questioned the Delhi government’s reluctance to submit before the court the list of FIRs it has been told to quash, saying the key issue for the protesting students is the withdrawal of cases registered…
The corridor is also expected to reduce congestion at seven major junctions including Eldams Road, SIET College Road, Cenotaph Road CHENNAI: The 3.2km Teynampet-Saidapet flyover on Anna Salai will miss its Sept 2026 deadline as the state highways department has run into a major design snag midway.The ₹621-crore flyover now needs a “scope change” as…
Patna: Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) will organise ‘Sahyog Shivir’ across all six circles on Tuesday to provide residents a single-window platform for submitting complaints, suggestions and applications related to civic services and other government departments.The camps will be held on the first and third Tuesday of every month to facilitate direct interaction between citizens and…
Devendra Nath Mahato says CBI or CID probe alone will not address students’ concerns RANCHI: Student leader Devendra Nath Mahato on Tuesday welcomed the Jharkhand government’s decision to cancel the JSSC-CGL examination and all recruitment exams conducted by TSR Data Processing Pvt Ltd (TDPL), calling it a “historic win” for students.Following the government’s decision, Mahato…
The Teesta begins in the Himalayas and flows through Sikkim and West Bengal before entering Bangladesh. Bangladesh does not want its relations with India to suffer because of the long-running dispute over sharing the waters of the Teesta river, country’s water resources minister Shahiduddin Chowdhury Anee said.Speaking at a seminar in Dhaka on Sunday, Anee…
Tarapith: The early-morning fire at Hotel Bideshini in Tarapith, which claimed the lives of nine people, including five members of a family from Meghalaya, exposed safety violations across establishments in the temple town.The hotel turned into a smoke trap following a short circuit in an air-conditioning miniature circuit breaker (MCB) on the ground floor, raising…
Mumbai: As the house-to-house enumeration exercise for SIR ended on Monday, several citizens expressed fear of being omitted from the draft electoral roll and later the final roll, saying BLOs had not visited their homes. Nearly half of the ‘uncollectable’ forms have been from Mumbai, Thane and Pune.After enumeration began on June 30, many citizens…
