Kolkata: The school education department has served a show-cause notice to the private school near Ruby Hospital where a class 3 student was bitten by a snake. The notice highlights serious lapses in handling the incident and questions why the school’s no-objection certificate (NOC), granted by the state, should not be revoked. The school has…
Noida: Post Graduate Institute of Child Health (PGICH), Noida, has received approval to introduce six additional in-house genetic tests, expanding its diagnostic facilities for children and families.PGICH director Dr A K Singh said the expanded facilities would help ensure timely diagnosis and appropriate clinical management.The six new tests include Fragile X syndrome, F508 mutation analysis…
Panaji: The Goa State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (Goa-SEIAA) at its recent meeting has decided to penalise five project proponents for failing to submit four consecutive half-yearly compliance reports of their individual environment clearance conditions.The Goa-SEIAA began a review this year of all the project proponents and their whether they have submitted the mandatory six-monthly…
Varanasi: The decomposed body of a 22-year-old woman who had been missing for three days was found in a water-filled washroom of a locked house in Varanasi’s Rajatalab police station area on Thursday. Locals alerted police after noticing a foul smell emanating from the house.According to the family, the woman, a resident of Rajatalab, was…
Migrant worker beaten to death Ahmedabad: A 23-year-old migrant worker from Uttar Pradesh died after he was allegedly tied with a rope and beaten with sticks by a father-son duo who mistook him for a thief in the Santej police station area of Gandhinagar district, police said.The victim, identified as Itwarilal Rajput of Farrukhabad district,…
Vet Varsity Gets ₹ 26 lakh National Grant for 3D Museum and Innovative Veterinary EducationTNNThe Centre for One Health at Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University has received a research grant of ₹26 lakh from the National Council for Science and Technology Communication (NCSTC), Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and…
Chandigarh: The Chandigarh Right to Service (RTS) Commission has imposed a penalty of Rs 5,000 each on two engineering department officials for delaying renovation work at a govt house in Sector 22-D, with half of the penalty amount ordered to be paid as compensation to the applicant.The action came on a complaint filed by Balwinder…
Pune: A 21-year-old man was arrested and his 17-year-old accomplice detained by Pimpri Chinchwad crime branch on Wednesday for extorting Rs13 lakh from a student by blackmailing and threatening to kill him.It took place between July and Nov 2024. The student, who is now 19, approached the crime branch after the minor recently threatened him…
Guwahati: Former Mizoram CM and veteran Mizo National Front (MNF) leader Zoramthanga on Thursday described the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) as a “terrible” law, drawing on his experience in the underground movement and his eventual transition to constitutional politics.Zoramthanga, who joined MNF in 1965, went underground in 1966 when the Mizo insurgency began…
Lucknow: Journalist and YouTuber Pragya Mishra on Thursday alleged that her sister, ICICI Bank deputy manager Divya Mishra, was stalked by her husband Manas Bajpai before being shot dead outside the ICICI Bank branch in Gomtinagar.In a post on X, Pragya shared an image showing multiple injuries and said Divya had been living separately from…
