Kolkata: The city witnessed a largely peaceful transition on Friday as worshippers across several mosques offered prayers on the premises instead of carriageways, following verbal instructions conveyed by the police in line with the new govt’s emphasis on traffic management and public order.Community elders, mosque committees and police personnel worked in coordination across several neighbourhoods…
The World Bank is a name that appears in economics textbooks, policy discussions and debates about global development. The institution plays a key role in moulding decisions that affect everything from infrastructure and poverty reduction to education and social welfare across developing countries. India’s latest appointment to its board offers a glimpse into the kind…
Panaji: A man, believed to be a tourist, jumped from the old Mandovi bridge on Friday evening, police said. A search operation was launched after police received a call around 6.30pm, with personnel from the fire and emergency services joining the effort.Police said the man’s identity has not yet been established and that he wasn’t…
Varanasi: Named FIR was registered against nine persons, including former MLA and district president of Samajwadi Party Manoj Singh Dablu, along with 250 unidentified workers, in Chandauli district, on charges of pushing policemen in a bid to enter the collectorate campus, recently.The SP organised a protest near Vikas Bhawan on Friday in support of their…
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…
Old Vidhan Sabha building in Jaipur’s Walled City Times News NetworkJaipur: Rajasthan govt’s ambitious state-level museum project, announced by the previous Congress regime, has virtually come to a halt under the present BJP govt led by Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma, with little progress made in the past two-and-a-half years.The proposed museum, planned inside the…
MUMBAI: The India heads of AI world’s arch-rivals Anthropic and OpenAI took to the stage at the annual Tech Week here, pitching their suite of products to a room full of developers and founders.“What makes India really important in OpenAI’s journey is the opportunity centred around access, adoption and agency,” said Pragya Misra, OpenAI’s head…
Representational image, used only for representational purpose India’s high-speed rail ambitions received a new push as the Centre has approved seven bullet train corridors across the country, promising shorter travel times between major cities and stronger rail connectivity. The seven high speed rail corridors are: Mumbai to Ahmedabad will take 1 hour 57 minutes. Mumbai…
Vivek Agnihotri accuses Mamata Banerjee of banning The Kashmir Files and The Bengal Files (Sept 2025 release starring Mithun Chakraborty, Anupam Kher), assaults, and FIRs in Bengal. “Never again,” he vows, celebrating the “unprecedented victory.” West Bengal experienced a dramatic political turning point as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) achieved a prominent victory over Chief…
Ajit Vishwanath and Abhilash Narasimhamurthy nurtured 500 saplings, creating a thriving green corridor with 93.6% survival in JP Nagar Bengaluru: On the busy JP Nagar ring road, motorists zip past a green median lined with mature trees. Their branches sway above the traffic, offering shade on scorching afternoons and softening an otherwise concrete landscape. Most…
