NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday hit out at leader of the opposition, Rahul Gandhi, and dismissed charges of ‘crony capitalism’. On X, she listed out multiple welfare schemes and policies of the Modi govt and underlined that farmers, the poor, women, youth, and MSMEs are “at the core” of the governance structure….
Howrah Station set for upgrade Local Train standing at Howrah Station —————- Koushik Koley Kolkata: The grand old Howrah Station, Asia’s oldest railway hub, will get two new platforms, extend the existing platforms to accommodate 22-coach trains and carry out redevelopment work to upgrade the facility and ease congestion, Howrah DRM Vishal Kapoor said on…
Bathinda: A massive fire broke out in the ethanol storage tank at the extra neutral alcohol (ENA) distillery at Machhana village in Bathinda on Friday. Over a dozen fire tenders doused the blaze after several hours of struggle.The reason behind the fire and the losses is yet to be ascertained.The distillery – Bathinda Chemicals Limited…
Saanika Shah, 22, recently performed Bharatanatyam at Everest Basecamp before summitting the peak A string of prayer flags flutters above a poster of Mount Everest in this Mulund home. Nearby hangs a dreamcatcher and a whiteboard scribbled with the coordinates of the world’s highest peak. “I manifested Everest,” says Saanika Shah who was 17 when…
New Delhi: In a move that resolves a long-standing regulatory impasse, National Medical Commission (NMC) has granted recognition to Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Cardiology (PGDCC), effectively validating the degrees of around 1,700 doctors who completed the course between 2006 and 2013. The programme, run by IGNOU, was effectively shut down after 2013 following its…
Tourists at a Marquis Street foreign exchange centre Kolkata: Traders across Kolkata’s ‘Mini Bangladesh’ have decided to keep prices reasonable for Bangladeshi visitors once tourism resumes, believing that rebuilding trust is more important than recovering two years of losses through steep tariff hikes.The decision follows Indian envoy to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi’s announcement that tourist visas…
Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Tuesday suspended Kalicharan Banerjee, the former OSD of ex-mayor Firhad Hakim. Banerjee was working as a manager in the MP LAD dept when he was arrested by thr SIT probing the Taratala warehouse collapse that has claimed 16 lives.Sources said the suspension was to have happened within 48 hours…
Air India Ahmedabad plane crash (File photo) MUMBAI: In a development that could impact the probe into the June 12, 2025 Air India crash at Ahmedabad that killed 241 people, India’s largest pilots’ body has placed before the govt a specific, documented electrical failure mechanism that can cut off fuel to both engines of a…
Ancient Kashi to go high-tech with AI-based crowd management Varanasi: Kashi is set to usher in an AI-powered era of crowd and mobility management, with tourists and devotees soon navigating the heritage city through an intelligent, technology-driven system. Combining artificial intelligence-powered sensors and cameras, generative AI, digital signages, colour-coded routes and AI-based pedestrian navigation, the…
For centuries, one of the most extraordinary living giants in Asia stood unnoticed among the remote mountains of Taiwan. Hidden within rugged forests and protected by difficult terrain, the colossal tree escaped scientific documentation despite its immense size. Now, after years of painstaking exploration, researchers have finally located and measured what is recognised as the…
