Kolkata: The CBSE announced the class 10 board results on Wednesday with an overall pass percentage of 93.7, an increase of 0.04 percentage points from the previous year’s 93.66%. Though students have another chance to reappear for the exams to improve their scores, most school principals felt very few would avail of the option as…
Ahmedabad: Rising incidents of attacks and an increasing number of rescue calls has led the forest department to initiate Ahmedabad’s first-ever monkey census, which experts say, could shift the approach to addressing the issue from a complaint-driven rescue model to data-backed conflict management. The ongoing survey comes amid growing concern over feeding of monkeys including…
NEW DELHI: RG Kar rape victim’s mother and BJP candidate Ratna Debnath is currently leading in the Panihati assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas. The Panihati seat has emerged as one of the most closely watched contests in the West Bengal election, with Debnath facing TMC candidate Tirthankar Ghosh, the son of a five-time sitting…
Ludhiana: Punjab’s industrial hub has become the third city in the state to launch an Intelligent Traffic Management System (ITMS), part of a high-tech policing surge designed to halve emergency response times.Director general of police Gaurav Yadav inaugurated the Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) at the Ludhiana Police Lines on Tuesday. The facility integrates…
Hyderabad: Chief minister A Revanth Reddy alleged that the Centre has remained silent on a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into alleged irregularities in the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme (KLIS), despite the state govt having written to it nine months ago seeking an inquiry and sending reminders.‘KLIS as ATM for BRS’The CM said Prime…
Lucknow: The special House session of the Lucknow Municipal Corporation convened by mayor Sushma Kharakwal, who belongs to BJP, on Thursday passed a proposal condemning parties opposing women’s quota bill, amid uproar and protest by opposition membersBJP has majority in the LMC House. The session began on a stormy note as corporators from the Samajwadi…
Ahmedabad: Under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, the first round of admissions for Class 1 was completed, with 77,925 students allotted seats in private schools across the state. However, around 5,753 seats remain vacant after the initial allocation.As per official instructions, parents of students who have been allotted seats must confirm admission by visiting…
According to Kepler observations, the most abundant kind of planets in the Milky Way is the super-Earths. These planets are larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and they have been observed in many planetary systems of the galaxy. Super-earths range in size from 1 to 4 times larger than Earth and exist in many…
NEW DELHI: AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Monday wrote a letter to Delhi high court justice Swarana Kanta Sharma, refusing to appear in person nor through a lawyer before the court for the hearing of the Delhi excise policy case.In the letter, Kejriwal said that he has “lost hope of getting justice” from the high…
Four individuals, including two young girls, tragically drowned in the Ganga River near Shivrampur Ghat in Ballia district on Sunday morning VARANASI: At least four persons, including two girls of a family, drowned in the river Ganga while bathing near Shivrampur Ghat under City Kotwali police station in Ballia district on Sunday morning. They all…
