Mahiyar PatelMumbai: The NEET paper leak is set to delay admissions and the start of the academic year for engineering and pharmacy colleges in Maharashtra. State minister for higher and technical education Chandrakant Patil said on Wednesday that admissions for nine engineering branches and 15% pharmacy seats reserved under the all-India quota are dependent on…
Bengaluru: Police busted an international drug-peddling network with the arrest of eight persons, including three foreigners, and seizure of 17kg of MDMA valued at Rs 17 crore.Police said the racket was allegedly masterminded by Reena Yadav alias Bapi, 50, who was released from a Delhi jail last year after serving 13 years in a criminal…
Chennai: Five inspectors of police, who had earlier served in stations under Kolathur and Harbour police sub-divisions and were shifted before the Model Code of Conduct came into effect duringelections, were transferred fromtheir present positions on Wednesday. The transferred officers S Ramesh of Otteri, G S Pushparaj of Meenambakkam, I Khader Meera of Madhavaram, and…
Hyderabad: Officials of the prison department on Wednesday said governor Shiv Pratap Shukla has granted permission for remission to 92 convicts serving life imprisonment.A source in the prison department said, following an internal scrutiny process, 103 life convicts were first identified by jail superintendents and their names were forwarded to the state govt. The government,…
Traffic police have impounded a motorcycle after discovering a staggering 81 pending traffic challans carrying a cumulative penalty of Rs 11.9 lakh during a special enforcement drive in the city Gurgaon: A motorcycle with pending traffic challans worth a staggering Rs 11.9 lakh was impounded during an enforcement drive. Officials on Tuesday found 81 unpaid…
Kolkata: Two fresh incidents of violence were reported in the city. In the first incident, the Chitpore police registered a stringent case under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act following an assault on a Dalit family on Dilarjang Road. According to the complainant, a group of 10 men, including Birju Singh, Rajen Chauhan and Vicky…
The 24-year-old fell from the third-floor terrace following an argument with her husband and in-laws on May 17 Noida: The mother-in-law of Deepika Nagar, an alleged victim of dowry harassment who died at her in-laws’ house in Greater Noida’s Jalpura village on May 17, was among two persons arrested on Wednesday. So far, police have…
Panaji: Dug decades ago on a hillside in Rivona, septuagenarian farmer Pandurang Patil’s stepwell is hand-carved with tunnel systems known as surangam, built using an ancient engineering technique once practised in parts of South India.“In plains, underground aquifers spread water evenly in broad underground water tables. One person digs a well at 8m, and nearby…
Varanasi: Under Operation Chakravyuh, a joint team of Lohta Police and SOG Varanasi on Tuesday afternoon arrested an inter-state smuggler carrying 54.160 kg of illegal cannabis, worth Rs 15 lakh. According to reports, at around 4.50PM, a goods carrier truck coming from the direction of Harahua block was stopped during checking near the Sabhaipur underpass…
Ahmedabad: Responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal, several companies in Gujarat’s service sector are gradually implementing a phased work-from-home (WFH) arrangement. While some are still working out the nitty-gritties, others already have a provision of a section of their workforce working from home rotationally. Others are still assessing the feasibility of flexible work models.IT…
