With the price of egg crossing Rs 8 across Karnataka, schools are finding it difficult to buy and distribute eggs among students from within the budgetary allocation Bengaluru: Which came first: Egg or banana? Karnataka’s flagship midday meal scheme, which ensures nearly two-thirds of the total 47 lakh students in govt and aided schools of…
Chennai: An unidentified man stole a two-sovereign gold chain and a mobile phone from an injured motorist after accompanying him to a hospital following an accident on the Pallavaram flyover.On Tuesday night, the injured man, Prem Kishore, 32, of Guduvanchery, closed his shop on Butt Road at St Thomas Mount, and was riding home via…
Hyderabad: The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to grant anticipatory bail to Andhra Pradesh former minister Karumuri Venkata Nageswara Rao in a case linked to the alleged manipulation of liquor transportation tenders.A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohan dismissed Rao’s plea and upheld Telangana high court’s July 3…
Gurgaon: A 28-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a hit-and-run after a private bus hit his bike and ran him over near Bhangrola village chowk on Tuesday evening. The bus driver fled the spot, while the pillion rider escaped with minor injuries.The deceased, Dharmender, was a native of Chhatarpur in Madhya Pradesh and lived in Bhangrola…
The rain is likely to continue Kolkata: The deep depression that was causing frequent rain spells has moved away from the region. However, the monsoon trough persisting over parts of Bengal will continue to cause light to moderate rain in parts of south Bengal the next few days, said Met officials.On Wednesday the deep depression…
Jokhabad village in Bulandsahar is among the 37 villages from where land will be acquired in the first phase of the New Noida project Noida: Noida Authority will begin land acquisition for its Dadri-Noida-Ghaziabad Investment Region project, also called New Noida, in Aug, with lekhpals set to conduct ground surveys across 37 villages identified for…
Panaji: A Pocso court has acquitted a 38-year-old man of assaulting and attempting to rape his 16-year-old daughter after she did not support the prosecution’s case.The girl, living with her father, stepmother, and siblings, had sent her headmistress a Whatsapp message that she was being beaten badly by her father, and sent her photos, following…
UP Tourism and Culture minister Jaiveer Singh attended the programme Varanasi: A two-day international seminar was inaugurated at Mulagandha Kuti Vihara in Sarnath here on the occasion of Ashadha Purnima and Dhammachakka Pavattana Day on Wednesday.Attending the programme, UP Tourism and Culture minister Jaiveer Singh said the UP govt is making continuous efforts to develop…
Flood-hit vehicle being towed away from Shela area of Ahmedabad after Friday’s heavy rain Ahmedabad: For Ahmedabad’s flood-hit vehicle owners, the water has receded, but the trouble has not. Many cannot get their cars and motorcycles into authorised workshops where parking areas are full, and queues for repairs are growing longer. Some owners have been…
Jalandhar: Alleging that more than 40% of academic posts in the state’s teacher training institutions were lying vacant in Punjab, Congress MLA and former education minister Pargat Singh called it an extremely alarming situation for the state’s education system. He said that the same govt, which made grand claims of bringing about an ‘education revolution’…
