Ranchi: After being ignored in the seat-sharing deal during Bihar assembly elections, the JMM is now eyeing new allies for the Assam poll, due later this year. Party office-bearers, however, said that final modalities will be known only as the election near.Addressing a rally at Mijikajan Tea Estate in Assam on Tuesday, Jharkhand chief minister…
Kiran George (PTI Photo/Gurinder Osan)( NEW DELHI: India had a mixed day at the Swiss Open on Wednesday, with some impressive wins but several early exits. The biggest highlight came from Kiran George, who stunned former world champion Loh Kean Yew of Singapore in straight games. Ranked 42nd in the world, Kiran edged past the…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday directed CBI to conduct a preliminary inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of a 20-year-old Dalit woman in MP’s Sagar district in 2024. It rejected the plea of the state that the case was politically motivated, and said the truth must come out.A bench of Justices M M…
Kolkata: Kasba police registered a theft case after a 26-year-old woman alleged that silver items, coins, ornaments and electronic items worth several lakhs were stolen from her flat in south Kolkata between March 2 and March 10, police said.The case started on the basis of a written complaint filed by Mamoni Saha, a resident of…
Thane: The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) revived its Heat Action Plan ahead of the peak summer months, bringing back measures such as installing green shade nets and water fountains at major traffic intersections to provide relief from soaring temperatures.The heat mitigation measures, which came amid the civic body simultaneously allowing the cutting of a large…
New Delhi: Police arrested 3 people, including two main accused, for allegedly setting a Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus on fire during unrest that broke out in west Delhi’s Nangloi after a fatal accident earlier this week. The main accused, Navlesh Kumar (45) of West Sagarpur, was identified through CCTV footage allegedly showing him setting…
To educate children to respect the law is not to deny them the tools of critique. It is to sequence those tools responsibly. Srimathi Venkatachari Recently, a Class VIII National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) social science textbook with a section describing “corruption in the judiciary” made headlines.Supreme Court took suo motu cognisance…
In a bid to uplift talented yet underprivileged students, Patna University is breathing new life into its dormant endowment funds. Established by generous supporters, these scholarships and awards have sadly become inactive due to dwindling resources. Patna: Patna University (PU) has initiated steps to revive all its ‘defunct’ endowments to help poor and meritorious students….
Dhanbad: The district education department and the Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Limited (HURL) have inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen infrastructure in 10 govt schools in Sindri and its adjoining areas.The pact was signed on Tuesday by district superintendent of education Ayush Kumar and HURL’s Sindri unit head Gautam Maji.“The project will focus…
নয়াদিল্লি: রাতের আকাশে আগুনের গোলা। উড়তে উড়তে হঠাৎই বিস্ফোরণ। এমনই বিরল দৃশ্যের সাক্ষী হল ইউরোপের একাধিক দেশ। আকাশে উল্কা বিস্ফোরণ ঘটল। তার পর সেই উল্কাখণ্ড আছড়ে পড়ল বসত বাড়িতে। মাটি থেকে দাঁড়িয়ে তো বটেই, বিমানে বসেও সেই দৃশ্য দেখলেন কেউ কেউ। (Meteor Explosion) গত রবিবার সন্ধে ৭টা নাগাদ জার্মানির রাইনল্যান্ড-ফেতিশ শহরের আকাশে উল্কা বিস্ফোরণ চোখে…
