Midnapore: A police constable was arrested on Sunday evening for allegedly assaulting and molesting a college student while she was returning home from a computer class in the Khirai area of West Midnapore district. The incident has triggered widespread public outrage.The accused has been identified as Biswajit Bhowmik, 30, a resident of Gobardhanpur village in…
Chennai: DMK MP P Wilson on Wednesday opposed Tamil Nadu govt’s reported move to include a University Grants Commission nominee in university vice-chancellor search committees.Wilson told reporters in Chennai that it would dilute the state’s constitutional authority over higher education and cede powers to Union govt. “Including a UGC nominee in the vice-chancellor selection panel…
File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he is not involved in managing his personal finances, a day after financial disclosures revealed he reported more than $1.4 billion in income from his family’s cryptocurrency ventures.Speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews before departing for North Dakota,…
Christopher Nolan defends his creative choice to use modern-day and contemporary English lines in the film rather than Homer’s words from his Greek classic. Ahead of the release of Christopher Nolan’s latest project, ‘The Odyssey’, the film has sparked quite a lot of debate and controversy online. One of the biggest discourses online is about…
Norbert Wiener was one of the most unusual mathematicians of the 20th century: a child prodigy who graduated from Tufts at 14, earned a Harvard PhD at 18, and spent most of his career at MIT. During World War II, his work on anti-aircraft fire-control problems helped lead him to the idea of cybernetics, the…
Lucknow: Allahabad High Court’s Lucknow bench has taken a stricter view in the matter of removal of illegal encroachments around the civil court premises in Kaiserbagh.The court has given a final opportunity to occupants of the remaining 72 chambers and shops, directing them either to voluntarily vacate the unauthorised structures or produce evidence before the…
Drive against traffic norm flouters Kolkata: Kolkata Police top brass has asked traffic guards not to let their guard down while acting against illegal parking, non-wearing of helmets and those violating traffic norms. Traffic cops have been asked to use the present SOP and tow away vehicles that block thoroughfares and even lodge complaints against…
As many as 32,000 girl candidates wrote the nursing CET Pune: Four students from Maharashtra secured a perfect 100 percentile score, while no student from outside the state achieved the top rank in the results declared by Maharashtra State Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell for admission to BSc Nursing and General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM)…
There are days when you feel heavier prior to breakfast and this could be one of them. The Moon is not in a good mood, and Saturn’s influence can make a little delays seem larger than they actually are. Work may move in fits and starts, with one phone call missed, one file delayed, or…
When the Strait of Hormuz tightened, many braced for $200-a-barrel oil. More than three months on, that nightmare scenario is still nowhere in the picture.The disruption, which removed more than 10 million barrels a day of Middle Eastern supply from the market, had fuelled warnings of crude prices soaring to as much as $200 a…
