Kolkata: CID officers visited the residence of Chowringhee MLA Nayana Bandyopadhyay on Thursday regarding an FIR lodged by the Bengal assembly secretary, which alleges that her signature proposing Sovandeb Chattopadhyay as the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) was forged. Bandyopadhyay slammed the move, calling it the “harassment” of a five-time MLA and a bid to…
Ghaziabad: A week ago, Vipul Goyal of Shipra Krishna Vista in Indirapuram fell ill. His son lives abroad and he did not have medicines at home. Being a senior citizen and not so tech-savvy, he was left with no other option but to call his 75-year-old neighbour, PL Arora, and request him to get the…
Mapusa: The people of Tuem in Pernem taluka are worried after mamlatdar Ranjit Salgaonkar issued notices to property owners demanding payment of pending fines linked to illegal stone quarrying, warning that properties could be confiscated on the directorate of mines and geology’s directions.An official said the mines directorate has begun proceedings to attach houses, private…
Ahmedabad: The department of higher education has approved a Rs 10.86 crore grant for Gujarat University (GU) to establish an Institute of Hospitality, Heritage Management, Archaeology and Lifelong Learning. The total cost of the project is estimated at Rs 36.21 crore and is expected to be completed over the next three to five years.The proposed…
The biggest advantage of the schedules is that residents will no longer have to take flights abroad or to domestic cities after travelling to Mohali or Amritsar airports. Ludhiana: Less than a fortnight after a private airline started two flights from Ludhiana district’s Halwara airport, it released the schedule for connecting flights with various other…
Seechewal (Jalandhar): Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Thursday said that some political parties in Punjab were trying to divide people in the name of religion and cautioned people against divisive politics. He also said that there were forces that wanted to gain power by creating communal strife, but they would not succeed because…
BLOs checking the voters’ lists Pune: Political parties in Pune district are lagging in appointing booth-level agents (BLAs) for the upcoming Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls despite the administration requiring over 8,000 personnel for the exercise.Pune district collector and district election officer Jitendra Dudi told TOI that repeated appeals have been made…
Silchar: One person died while a youth sustained critical injuries in two separate accidents reported from Cachar district on Eid ul-Zuha on Thursday. An unidentified man was found lying in a bloodied condition beside a railway track at Chandranathpur on Thursday morning. Local residents who spotted him said the injured man was crying for help.He…
Jaipur: In an order reinforcing the constitutional right to privacy and dignity of women, the Rajasthan High Court has directed that obscene or intimate photographs and videos connected to victims or survivors involved in criminal cases must never be filed openly in court records and should only be submitted in sealed covers.The high court issued…
Noting that the right to trauma care of a citizen is an integral part of right to life, the Supreme Court has directed states and UTs to integrate within three months all emergency/ambulance helplines into one helpline number ‘112’ for emergency responses.A bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and A S Chandurkar also directed them…
