Chennai: DMK conducted statewide training sessions on Sunday for its counting agents, focusing on procedures to be followed inside counting centres. With 62 counting centres set up across Tamil Nadu, party leadership had earlier directed senior functionaries to brief agents thoroughly. Following this, ministers and district-level leaders held meetings on Sunday to ensure uniform adherence…
Hyderabad: Maulana Azad National Urdu University’s Civil Services Examination–Residential Coaching Academy (CSE-RCA) has achieved a dubious distinction. In 16 years, since its inception in 2009, not one aspirant made the cut, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply. Academics attribute a variety of reasons for the poor show from inadequate funding to lack of…
Kolkata: Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya on Sunday appealed to both BJP and Trinamool workers to resist provocation and violence ahead of Monday’s counting, saying political differences must not translate into vengeance.“Our primary objective is to change Bengal’s political culture — the culture of reprisal and revenge. Whatever we were subjected to after 2016 and…
Panaji: The department of information technology, electronics and communications has issued a second reminder to all govt departments, corporations, autonomous bodies and institutions. It noted that several departments failed to respond to its earlier directive issued in Feb. The directive had called for compliance with mandated security and accessibility standards.Director for IT Kabir Shirgaonkar, in…
Ahmedabad: A man, who allegedly assaulted his friend over drinking water, was on Sunday booked for the alleged crime that occured on April 28. The complainant in the case is daily wager Vishal Makwana, who lives in Custodian Chawl in Gomtipur. In his police complaint on Sunday, Vishal stated he was playing mobile games with…
Times News NetworkLudhiana: A group of men attacked an 18-year-old boy with sharp-edged weapons in full public view near Neela Jhanda gurdwara in division no. 3 area. Sources said the victim went there to talk to the accused, who had relationship issues with his (victim’s) friend. An argument took place, during which the accused attacked…
Chandigarh/New Delhi: A day after reports of two FIRs under non-bailable sections in Punjab, Rajya Sabha MP Sandeep Pathak on Sunday addressed a press conference in Delhi, saying he had no “official or unofficial information” about any such cases.Pathak said he had been waiting for a copy of the FIRs to respond. “Since yesterday, there…
Pune: Cybercrooks duped a woman from Nigdi of Rs 95,000 on the pretext of helping her to lodge a complaint with the customer care section of an e-commerce website.The fraud happened on April 26, when the woman tried to purchase a product online. Her order did not place, but the money was debited from her…
Imphal: A bomb, suspected to be a grenade, exploded at a crematorium located between the entrance of the Imphal airport cargo terminal and a camp of the Territorial Army in Imphal at 11.55am on Sunday.No casualties were reported.The blast occurred amid heightened security measures in view of the three years completion of the Manipur conflict,…
Ayodhya/Sultanpur: A Sultanpur MP/MLA court on Saturday rejected a plea seeking a voice sample of Rae Bareli MP Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case filed by a BJP functionary.The court posted the matter for the next hearing on May 11.The plea, filed by BJP member Vijay Mishra through his counsel Santosh Kumar Pandey, sought Gandhi’s…
