Panaji: Biometric authentication of 98% or 1.58 lakh school students in Goa has been carried out by their schools, as per Centre’s school education department’s data. From nursery level up to Class VIII, there are 1.61 lakh students enrolled in the state and the Centre has directed Goa govt officials to complete authentication of data…
Coast Guard and Gujarat ATS retrieved 115 packets of cocaine from the sea AHMEDABAD: The cargo vessel, MV Europe, from which Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) and the Indian Coast Guard seized 115kg of cocaine worth Rs 1,150 crore near Mundra port, had spent nearly 196 days traversing oceans. It made 40 recorded stops at 23…
The officials claimed that they had floated the tenders as the councillors had asked for CCTVs in their areas. CCTV cameras installed on elevated road.photo-Umesh Kumar Ludhiana: Keeping in view security concerns raised by the residents of West constituency, the civic body, on the recommendation of area councillors, is planning to install close circuit television…
Amritsar: A massive fire broke out at Bansan Wala Bazaar in the Rambagh area on Thursday evening, killing a man and destroying 12-13 shops.The blaze engulfed several shops in the market known for manufacturing and selling bamboo ladders and other highly combustible bamboo products.Within minutes, flames rising several feet high spread across adjoining shops, triggering…
Pune: As many as 116 schools of the 285 run by Pune Municipal Corporation have no principals. Retirement and non-availability of teachers who have cleared the Supreme Court-mandated Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) to take on the responsibility have kept these posts vacant.Such schools amount to 40% of the total number, data given in a reply…
Union MoS Raksha Khadse speaks at an event in Shillong Shillong: Union minister of state for youth affairs & sports, Raksha Khadse, has called for “collective, mission-mode approach” to combat the growing challenge of substance abuse among youth in the northeast at an event on Thursday.She was speaking at a ‘Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit…
Bhilwara: An FIR was lodged against cooperatives and civil aviation minister Gautam Kumar Dak, following allegations of abusive language and threats directed at police personnel at the Dungla police station Thursday. The incident was reported to have occurred on May 25.The FIR filed by station house officer Shaitan Singh details an alleged confrontation between minister…
New Delhi: United Nations will posthumously honour two Indian peacekeepers on the International Day of UN Peacekeepers on Friday for making the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.Lance Havildar Harbhajan Singh, who served with UN Organisation Stabilisation Mission in Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), and Naib Subedar Sujit Kumar Pradhan, who was deployed…
When North Dakota farmer Randy Fyllesvold died unexpectedly in a car crash in September 2025, his family was left grieving while also facing an overwhelming reality. Around 1,400 acres of corn and soybeans still stood unharvested just as winter weather was beginning to close in. For farming families, missing the narrow harvest window can mean…
Brad Pitt has secured a fresh legal victory in his ongoing battle with ex-wife Angelina Jolie over Chateau Miraval. According to the latest reports, a judge has ordered a key figure connected to the case to return for another deposition.A Michigan judge, on May 20, ruled that attorneys representing the Stoli side “improperly blocked” a…
