Chennai: Students who have created portfolios on platforms such as ‘GitHub’ and ‘Behance’ are likely to get weightage for admissions to computer science-related courses and creative courses such as visual communication. Some colleges wanted to conduct one-to-one counselling with students before the admissions to give them an idea about the programmes started in emerging areas.With…
Hyderabad: The TGSRTC bus services resumed across the state from the early hours of Saturday after RTC JAC leaders called off their strike late night on Friday, following successful talks with the state govt.The return of buses brought major relief to the public. Services resumed from the first shift, with RTC JAC leaders and management…
Gurgaon: The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT), Gurgaon, has awarded compensation of Rs 16.5 lakh, along with 7% annual interest from the date of filing a petition, to the family of a 24-year-old youth, Deepak, who died in a road accident in 2022. The tribunal held the truck driver guilty of rash and negligent driving…
Kolkata: A fire broke out in the Sholo Bigha slum near Eastern Railway’s Santoshpur station on Saturday at 1.48 pm. Around 50-60 shanties near the railway station were gutted in the blaze. No one was injured. . Traffic came to a standstill on Budge Budge Road from around 2 pm as at least 6 to…
Firefighters were met with thick columns of black smoke when they reached the spot Ghaziabad: A fire broke out at a newly set-up chemical factory in Diksha Industrial Park, located in Deenanathpur Putti village, on Saturday. Fire tenders from multiple stations took more than an hour to bring the blaze under control.Fire department officials said…
Panaji: The Bombay high court has directed the Union finance secretary to file an affidavit, detailing steps taken to allot specific premises for the GST Appellate tribunal in Goa. While the tribunal has been constituted, it is yet to start due to absence of the said premises.The high court had earlier, on April 1, issued…
Varanasi:Two candidates were caught attempting to appear in the School Entrance Test (SET-2026) of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) using forged admit cards on Friday.According to the office of the Coordinator of School Entrance Examination, a preliminary inquiry revealed that the candidates had tampered with original admit cards using digital means in an apparent attempt to…
Gandhinagar: An analysis of school dropouts in Gujarat has found that the lack of admission opportunities at higher levels is one of the key reasons students leave school at different stages. A study conducted by the state education department shows that around 4 lakh students drop out from their schools due to non-availability of admission…
Shimla: Taking note of the deteriorating condition of the Dhalli-Narkanda road stretch in Shimla district, the Himachal Pradesh high court has summoned the engineer-in-chief of the public works department (PWD) and the chief engineer of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to present a concrete repair plan.The division bench, comprising Chief Justice Gurmeet Singh…
Aizawl: South Mizoram’s Lawngtlai district deputy commissioner Donny Lalruatsanga issued an order on Saturday banning the import of cattle from Myanmar in view of the prevalence of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) endemic in the neighbouring country.In his order, the DC said it has been officially confirmed that FMD has been prevalent in endemic proportions in Myanmar,…
