Varanasi: The e-office system has now been implemented at Varanasi Central Jail. The new system is intended to facilitate swift implementation of administrative orders, official correspondence, prisoner releases and other essential govt related tasks. Until now, the jail administration depended on the postal system or staff for any government order, letter, or directive. This often…
Michael Bloomberg’s $1.8 billion donation to Johns Hopkins University in 2018 revolutionized higher education by funding need-blind admissions. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons A good example of a headline that does not lose relevance many years after being published would be one that came out in 2018 regarding Michael Bloomberg’s donation of $1.8 billion to Johns…
New Delhi: Delhi Police swooped down on shooters of the Gogi and Tillu Tajpuria gangs, arresting nine of them and seizing arms and ammunition in a preventive crackdown which averted a gangwar in the capital.According to special CP (law and order) Ravindra Singh Yadav, the intelligence-led raids, comprising 430 personnel from three districts, targeted 28…
You wake up with a steady kind of happiness, like a clear sky after sticky weather. The Moon supports your practical side, and Jupiter blesses effort with visible results. This is why the day feels better, even when the traffic isn’t as nice and the phone is constantly going off.You’ll feel a sense of joy…
Dibrugarh: In light of previous incidents of poisoning caused by consumption of various wild mushrooms found in forests and bushes during the monsoon season, the Dibrugarh district health department has urged the public to refrain from eating wild mushrooms.Mushrooms found along roadsides and in jungles during the rainy season contain various harmful toxic substances, the…
Kolkata: The dismantling of all three hawkers’ union offices around New Market marked the transition of hawkers from the Trinamool fold to BJP, and the return of full-fledged hawking in the shopping zone on Thursday.While the bulldozing of the hawkers’ union office on Hogg Street on Tuesday night grabbed eyeballs, two other offices in the…
Britain extracted 25 million years of life and labour through slavery in Barbados: Report A report presented in Barbados states that the British colonial practices drained nearly 25 million years of life and forced work from enslaved Africans. Value lost through such extraction may reach £1.6 trillion, as researchers seek to quantify historical harm. The…
In a post on social meida, Manish Malhotra shared a closer look at his ensemble and wrote, “For my appearance at the Met Gala, I wanted to create something deeply personal- a reflection of Mumbai, the city that has shaped my journey, my cinema, and my sense of design, along with the atelier that brings…
Famed actor Heath Ledger’s passing was perhaps one of the biggest news stories in the Hollywood industry at the time. As the news spread, tributes and comments of shock and disbelief were shared. Now, years later, fans wonder about the actor and what happened to his daughter, Matilda Ledger. Here is all we know about…
The sighting of an Indian golden oriole with its eye-catching yellow plumage is a signal that the seasonal shift has begun A spotted redshank, a winter migratory bird, captured in a marshland in Chandu A pair of blue-cheeked bee-eaters. This summer bird has already been sighted in multiple pockets across NCR An Indian paradise flycatcher,…
