Gorakhpur: Teachers’ Day celebrations at The Pillars Public School, Civil Lines, and The Pillars Siktaur took an innovative turn this year, with members of its student council taking charge of the schools for a day.Students stepped into the roles of teachers and school officials and handled various academic, administrative and organisational responsibilities. The initiative gave…
Margao: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Sunday accused BJP govt in Goa of turning the state into a “model of corruption” for other states to follow, saying it practised “high-tech corruption, land corruption, every type of corruption”.Addressing the gathering at the culmination of the party’s Goy Rakhonn Yatra, he said only Congress could dismantle it….
Lucknow: Under Mukhyamantri Samuhik Vivah Yojana, department of social welfare ensured the marriage of over 1.8 lakh couples from OBC families. An official from the department said marriages of 1,80,017 couples from OBC families were solemnised over the past nine years. In 2025-26, a total of 26,286 OBC couples were married under the scheme.Under the…
Vasco: A youth and a girl riding pillion on a two-wheeler died after the bike rammed into the parapet of the Baina flyover and they were flung onto the ground late on Thursday evening.The incident was reported between 10.30pm and 10.45pm. Their identities were yet to be ascertained by Vasco police.According to police, the duo…
Varanasi: Tension prevailed in Sathwa village under Sarnath police station after an idol of Lord Hanuman was allegedly vandalised by unidentified anti-social elements on Monday night. Police reached the village before any protest could erupt and pacified the residents.After taking stock at the spot, DCP Varuna Zone Pramod Kumar said the idol had been installed…
Kolkata: A woman, in her early 30s, has alleged that she was repeatedly gang-raped after being sedated with sleeping pills at a de-addiction centre in the Daripukur area under Dattapukur PS in Barasat, North 24-Parganas. The allegations have led to the arrest of the owner of the rehabilitation centre on Tuesday, while police are searching…
LUCKNOW: A 16-year-old female student was found hanging from a ceiling fan in a hostel in Gomtinagar on Friday morning, triggering a police investigation after her family allegedly attempted to take the body to Haridwar for cremation without informing authorities. Police said a handwritten note carrying the words “I quit” was recovered from the room…
Nick Jonas has revisited an audition that could have changed his connection with one of Disney’s biggest animated franchises. The singer and actor revealed that he once tried out for the role of Kristoff in ‘Frozen’.Nick Jonas discussed the experience during an episode of his Hey Jonas Podcast. He spoke with Kristen Bell, Josh Gad…
Chennai: Two men were killed in separate incidents within the limits of Mambalam police station in T. Nagar on Wednesday night. Two persons were arrested in connection with the incident.In the first incident, Rajendran, 50, a resident of Kannammapet in T. Nagar who worked as a housekeeping worker at a wedding hall, was found dead…
New Delhi: Underlining the right to reproductive autonomy, Delhi high court has permitted the extraction and preservation of sperm of a comatose Army soldier, paving the way for his wife to undergo an IVF procedure to try for a child.The soldier is in a persistent vegetative state with no foreseeable scope of neurological recovery. In…
