KOLKATA: Bengal govt on Wednesday handed over an initial 75 acres to BSF to cover fencing of 27 km of international border between India and Bangladesh. CM Suvendu Adhikari, who earlier promised to start the land handover process after the BJP govt assumed office, said that completion of the critical, long-pending fencing along the India-Bangladesh…
Panaji: A Merces court acquitted Tulshidas Gaunkar in a 2019 death-by-negligence case involving a pedestrian who was allegedly hit by his military truck near the ferry point in Panaji while he was driving from the KTC bus stand to the market. The court granted him the benefit of doubt after stating that the prosecution failed…
Ahmedabad: The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has decided to translocate three cheetahs brought from Botswana to Kuno National Park to the Banni grasslands in Kutch. A second batch of four cheetahs from Kenya is expected to arrive later this year. Principal chief conservator of forests, Jaipal Singh, confirmed the development, stating that the three…
Sonipat: In a tragic turn of events, a 60-year-old businessman from Assandh town lost his life while attempting to save his wife after she slipped into a canal during a religious ritual. His body was recovered from a canal in Sonipat district three days after the incident, the police said on Wednesday.The deceased, identified as…
The last stray dog census in PMC limits was held in 2023, said officials Pune: The PMC plans to conduct a stray dog census and survey spots with a high population of community canines. Civic officials said they plant to speed up the activity in the aftermath of Supreme Court directives issued on Tuesday this…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to flag off the first motor vehicle on the eway in the coming days LUCKNOW: Get ready to drive on the 63-km-long Lucknow- Kanpur expressway from June as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to flag off the first motor vehicle on it in the coming days.A large vacant…
Jaipur: Three men were arrested at Jaipur International Airport Tuesday for attempting to travel to Iraq using counterfeit tourist visas, police said.The accused were identified as Suresh Kumar (47) from Ambedkar Nagar in Uttar Pradesh, Alok Kumar Singh (31) from Patna in Bihar, and Rupesh Yadav (32) from East Champaran in Bihar.DCP (East) Ranjita Sharma…
Heatwave alert for Delhi, UP, Punjab, Haryana and more: What to expect over next 5 days (Image credit: ANI) Heatwave conditions continue to grip large parts of India, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) warning of severe temperatures across several states.In its May 20 press release, the IMD said, “Heat wave to severe heat wave…
The US aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and its strike group have entered the Caribbean Sea amid escalating tensions between Washington and Havana.The deployment comes at a time when US President Donald Trump has intensified rhetoric against Cuba and hinted at possible action against the island nation.The carrier strike group includes the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS…
MUMBAI: For long, stock market and mutual fund industry analysts have been saying that Indian investors are maturing fast, moving away from trading in direct stocks and investing for the long term through the fund route. Now, a Sebi research paper, using granular data, has bolstered that notion. Using holdings data of households in depositories,…
