Independence Day in Bengaluru Bengaluru: Around 18,000 people have registered for Saturday’s Freedom Habba, Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) said Thursday. To ensure safety and crowd management, only those with pre-booked registrations and QR-code access will be allowed entry.GBA officials confirmed no on-the-spot or late registrations will be permitted; every participant must pre-register to gain access…
51-year-old Suresh Kumar, a diagnostics industry professional with an MBA and two doctorates, has secured an undergraduate medical seat at Government Medical College and Hospital in Nagapattinam Chennai: More than three decades after he first sought admission to medical college, 51-year-old Suresh Kumar, a diagnostics industry professional with an MBA and two doctorates, has secured…
Hyderabad: After the controversy over Raidurg land involving the State Bank of India (SBI), the Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (TGIIC) has run into another dispute over land in Hyderabad Knowledge City proposed for auction in the third week of Aug.The controversy began after rock activists and others claimed that the land proposed for auction…
Gurgaon: A cab driver allegedly played an obscene video on his phone and turned the screen towards a woman driver at an EV charging station in Sector 29, prompting her to record the incident and confront him. The incident took place on Wednesday and the accused was arrested on Thursday.The woman, a Delhi resident who…
Kolkata: Security has been tightened across Kolkata for Independence Day, with police stepping up surveillance amid cracking of JeM-Shahzad Bhatti and ISI-backed terror and spying modules in the city in the past month.According to sources at Lalbazar, 6,000 police personnel will be deployed across the city on Friday for the occasion.The security has been planned…
Noida: A software engineer accused of stabbing a 19-year-old woman to death at a PG in Barola landed in police custody in Bihar on Tuesday, days after allegedly locking her blood-soaked body inside a room and fleeing across three states.Autopsy showed that Mahak Ahmed, who was from Dibrugarh in Assam, was killed in the early…
The department of personnel will be authorised to issue related circulars, orders, office memoranda, and notifications Panaji: The state cabinet on Thursday approved the transfer of reservations and recruitment of candidates belonging to the economically weaker section (EWS) from the directorate of social welfare to department of personnel.The ministry of personnel, public grievances and pensions,…
The decision to suspend the boat operations was taken by the Jal Police after discussions with the NDRF and senior officials, in view of the safety of passengers and their property. Varanasi: The boat operations on Ganga, suspended for the past few days due to bad weather and a rise in water level, were resumed…
Ahmedabad: Additional sessions judge J I Patel on Thursday denied regular bail to 65-year-old Ramila Dodiya, one of the three main accused in the July firecracker factory blast in Ramol that killed 10 people.In her bail plea, Dodiya maintained innocence and dissociated herself from the unit. She claimed that her son, Mehul, was the proprietor…
Officials and students planted fruit-bearing saplings around the university hostels to strengthen PAU’s “Clean and Green Campus” campaign and dedicate the modernised facilities to students and the farming community Ludhiana: Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) held a special function to mark the inauguration of campus-wide infrastructure developments, including widened roads, a renovated library, and upgraded basic…
