Sandeshkhali: During the June 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Sandeshkhali dominated political discourse and grabbed national attention. The riverine island emerged as a major political flashpoint, with BJP seeking to turn the tide against Trinamool by riding on protests over alleged sexual violence against women and land grabbing by former TMC strongman Sheikh Shahjahan and his…
Varanasi: Ballia police lodged FIR against two inspectors suspended on charges of seeking sexual favour from a rape survivor. Further investigation is in progress.Ballia CO (Rasra) Alok Kumar Gupta on Thursday said both suspended inspectors had been booked on charges of sexual harassment by word, gesture, act or object exhibition intended to insult modesty of…
The biological narrative of Madagascar is a 180-million-year history of isolation and evolutionary divergence. Once a part of the Gondwana supercontinent, it broke away from Africa and later split from the Indian subcontinent around 88 million years ago. This separation turned it into a secluded natural lab. With no competition from mainland species, Madagascar’s plants…
JEE Mains result 2026: The National Testing Agency (NTA) is expected to announce the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main Session 2 result 2026 by April 20, according to various media reports. Once released, candidates who appeared for the April session will be able to check their scores on the official websites, which are jeemain.nta.nic.in and…
Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty ended lower on Tuesday as rising crude oil prices and continued foreign fund outflows weakened investor sentiment.The 30-share BSE Sensex fell 416.72 points, or 0.54 per cent, to settle at 76,886.91. During the session, it dropped as much as 562.57 points, or 0.72 per cent, to 76,741.06.The NSE Nifty…
Panaji: It has been over a decade since the Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education adopted the sports merit marks policy. It allowed students to be compensated with marks for the time stolen away from their academics for participation in sports events. The policy was meant to create a level playing field in…
CHENNAI: Largely peaceful polling in Tamil Nadu on Thursday was marred by sporadic clashes between cadres of DMK and TVK in several parts of the state.In Harbour constituency, tension flared when supporters of HR&CE minister P K Sekarbabu and TVK candidate ‘Sinora’ P S Ashok clashed near a polling booth on Angappa Naicken Street. According…
Rajkot: Ten years after it was notified as an eco-sensitive zone (ESZ), a committee of monks in Girnar, Junagadh, have demanded scrapping of this important conservation status for the wildlife sanctuary that houses 54 lions so that all religious activities can be organized freely.The demand, which is among 59 other demands, made by Girnar Sanrakshan…
NEW DELHI: The two Kashmiri locals – in jail in the Pahalgam attack case for allegedly harbouring the three Pakistani terrorists a night before the incident – could have easily prevented the mayhem of April 22, 2025, and saved 26 civilians from being brutally gunned down in front of their families.Around 12.30 pm on the…
Palanpur: Four workers suffered severe burns after a boiler exploded at a castor oil extraction mill in Kanodar town of Banaskantha district on Wednesday.Of the four, three people, including a woman, who suffered 60%-90% burns were rushed to Ahmedabad Civil Hospital and their condition is said to be critical. “One worker suffered 30% burns and…
