Kolkata: Amid gusty winds and heavy rainfall, examinees struggled to reach their examination halls for the NEET re-test on Sunday. Out of 109,527 registered candidates, 93,878 appeared for the exam, while 15,649 skipped the re-test. Candidates appearing for the test in Kolkata faced severe difficulties reaching their centres because a heavy downpour drenched the city…
G Arun Maiya, Professor and Dean at the Manipal College of Health Professions, Manipal Academy of Higher Education Dr Sharan Shivaraj Patil, Chairman and Chief Orthopaedic Surgeon at SPARSH Hospital, Bengaluru G Arun Maiya, Professor and Dean at the Manipal College of Health Professions, Manipal Academy of Higher Education Dr Sharan Shivaraj Patil, Chairman and…
Karnataka is launching a month-long door-to-door voter enumeration drive starting Tuesday, aiming to update rolls for 5.5 crore citizens. (Representative image) BENGALURU: The Election Commission of India (ECI) is set to launch door-to-door enumeration visits in Karnataka from Tuesday, marking the beginning of its Special Intensive Revision in a monthlong exercise scheduled to conclude on…
Hyderabad: Property registration rates could rise nearly fourfold in city’s upscale western corridor if the Telangana govt accepts the latest recommendations made by the revenue department.Sources told the TOI that the department has proposed revised registration values of Rs 50 crore to Rs 55 crore per acre in Raidurg and Gachibowli, compared to the current…
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) claimed to finalise arrangements to ensure uninterrupted electricity supply across the state during the extreme summer months. The corporation prepared a strategy to make around 34,000 MW of power available, keeping in view the rise in demand expected between April and Sept.UPPCL managing director Pankaj Kumar said that…
Pune: A 62-year-old daily wage worker was arrested in the early hours of Wednesday on the charge of attempting to rape his granddaughter, a Std III student, around 8.30pm on Tuesday in his hutment.The Parvati police on Wednesday afternoon produced him before a city court and he was remanded him in police custody till May…
Bengaluru: Despite being Bengaluru’s premier commercial hub, Brigade Road is not spared from the city’s garbage crisis. Traders are worried and frustrated as heaps of waste — plastic bags, cardboard and rotting debris — pile up openly on the busy street, deterring shoppers and tarnishing the area’s image.Brigade Road, located in central Bengaluru near the…
Lucknow: Top achievers, including Mohammad Affan, Soumya Mishra and Akashi Yadav, will be honoured with prestigious medals at the 11th convocation of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Language University on July 8.Affan will receive the Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Medal after securing top positions in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Arabic department. Mishra will be…
The Minions have taken down ‘Toy Story 5’ at the July Fourth weekend box office.‘Minions & Monsters’, the seventh film in the ‘Despicable Me’ franchise, earned USD 36.4 million at the holiday weekend box office, according to studio estimates for North America. The Minions movie, which has the devious henchlings seeking movie glory in Hollywood’s…
KOLKATA: Jadavpur University, one of the incubation centres for left-liberal ideas in Bengal, saw its first RSS morning drill on Tuesday within days of BJP taking office in the state.The entry into JU — where students’ unions have always been controlled by leftand far-left-leaning organisations — signals a remarkable rise of RSS in Bengal, where…
