Patna: Identifying public water harvesting structures across the state and freeing them from encroachments will be a priority of the revenue and land reforms department, minister Dilip Kumar Jaiswal said on Tuesday.Addressing a Jal-Jeevan-Hariyali Diwas programme organised by the department, Jaiswal said ponds, pools, ahars and pains were vital public assets that played an important…
Ramgarh: A police team constituted by the district headquarters arrested two alleged drug peddlers and seized 16.83 grams of brown sugar, along with a car reportedly used for smuggling.Ramgarh SP Mukesh Kumar Lunayat said on Tuesday the action followed a tip-off about drug smuggling. The accused, identified as Akhil Ansari (30) of Gate No. 2,…
Hazaribag: Panic gripped Dulmaha village in Barhi in the early hours of Tuesday after a nearly six-foot-long cobra was spotted inside a house. Family members alerted neighbours, who informed the forest department and sought a rescue operation.A forest department team soon reached the spot, located the cobra inside the house and captured it as villagers…
Novak Djokovic with Lionel Messi in 2023 (Source: Instagram / Leo Messi) British philosopher Bertrand Russell, the pacifist who was arrested for opposing World War I and spent six months in jail, where he wrote Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, said: “Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such…
Muzaffar Ahmed Sheikh (35) from Ganderbal district in Jammu & Kashmir. NEW DELHI: Challenging the Centre’s claim made in Parliament in the monsoon session that a survey conducted in all districts of the country during the year 2024-25 found no person engaged as a manual scavenger, Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA) on Tuesday brought together women…
Kolkata: Days after several electronic devices, including three smartphones, were recovered from the cell of convicted terrorist Aftab Ansari, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari paid a surprise visit to Presidency Correctional Home on Tuesday.This is believed to be the first visit by a chief minister of the state to the correctional home.Adhikari, who arrived around 2.15…
Mumbai: Dismissed cop Sachin Waze, an accused in the Antilia bomb scare and Mansukh Hiran murder case, has moved a plea before the special NIA court, raising questions about the absence of statements from the alleged victims, industrialist Mukesh Ambani and his wife Nita Ambani.“This means even after more than five years none of the…
New Delhi: “We have still not been able to move on,” a relative of the Aggarwal family, eight of whose members were killed in the Hauz Rani B&B blaze on June 3, told TOI Tuesday.The eight had gathered at the B&B to meet family patriarch Radheshyam Aggarwal (76), who was undergoing treatment for an acute…
The entire month had a cumulative investment of $3.3 bn Chennai: Eight mega deals in Aug fueled India’s Private Equity and Venture Capital (PE-VC) investments growth. It revived the falling PE-VC investments this year to $23.6 billion, mirroring the previous year’s levels. The eight-month period between Jan and Aug last year (CY2025) registered identical PE-VC…
