Kolkata: Students, who have cleared their West Bengal Joint Entrance Exams, will be eligible for a fresh entry at every counselling round for admission to engineering courses and at every stage, they can change their subject as well as preferences for institutes: The WBJEE Board announced this revision on Thursday after the joint entrance results…
Ludhiana: Premises of four schools in the city were evacuated after a bomb threat was received via e-mail around 9.14am on Wednesday. The mail warned parents against sending their children to school on April 24, the day of the blackout drill, and threatened a bomb blast at 1.11pm. It also mentioned explosions at railway tracks…
US stock markets traded higher on Thursday, with technology and artificial intelligence (AI)-linked stocks rebounding after a volatile week, while investors continued to monitor rising geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, inflation concerns and global interest rate expectations.The benchmark S&P 500 rose 0.5% in morning trade, recovering some of the losses recorded over the previous…
Hyderabad: Medchal police on Wednesday arrested a man for allegedly attempting to extort money from a businessman by posing as the personal secretary of chief minister A Revanth Reddy.The accused, identified as 47-year-old Santosh Gupta, reportedly approached a businessman involved in villa construction as the CM’s secretary. He demanded that five villas be reserved for…
Mumbai: The BMC is set to implement a 10% water cut in Mumbai from May 15 as a precaution, taking into account the India Meteorological Department’s forecast of below average monsoon due to the El Niño and Indian Ocean Dipole conditions. Besides Mumbai, BMC’s water cut will also impact certain areas in Thane and Bhiwandi-Nizampur…
Darjeeling: The bodies of four missing residents from Lingdok, under the Kabi-Lungchok constituency in Sikkim, were found in a SUV that was fished out of Teesta River near Coronation Bridge in Sevoke, about 20 km away from Siliguri on Sunday morning, nearly two days after they had gone missing.The deceased have been identified as Smarika…
SRINAGAR: Gulmarg’s glittering slopes, once blanketed for months, now flicker between white and bare. Seasons shrink. Thaws bite. People ask: Where are the snows of yesteryear? Future of India’s premier ski resort looks increasingly like it’s skating on thin ice — and govt is racing to keep it from sliding off course.Plans are moving fast….
NEW DELHI: A 28-year-old man allegedly killed his wife by bludgeoning her with a battery after suspecting her of speaking to someone on the phone, and later died by suicide after consuming poison in Delhi’s Ranhola area, police said on Saturday.According to investigators, Vinay allegedly struck his 24-year-old wife Nisha on the head with an…
The proposed stadium is around 300 metres from the Hindon river and 11km from the Hindon Air Force Station Ghaziabad: Former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi has triggered a fresh debate over the proposed international cricket stadium in the city, questioning the project’s prolonged delay, the utilisation of funds released by BCCI, and the change in…
A ceremonial metal trident bearing the image of Goddess Bhadrakali, a stone idol of Nandi and a stone idol of six-headed Kartikeya (Image credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: Australia on Thursday announced that it will return three ancient Indian artefacts, a ceremonial metal trident bearing the image of Goddess Bhadrakali, a stone idol of Nandi and…
