Kolkata: Several major centrally sponsored rural development schemes stalled in Bengal for years are set to resume, state panchayat and rural development minister Dilip Ghosh announced on Thursday. He further announced that there were 11,154 vacant posts across different tiers of the panchayat structure — of which 6,536 will be filled in the first phase.Ghosh…
NEW DELHI: In a landmark ruling, Delhi HC has recognised the “right to be forgotten” as an “integral facet” of the right to privacy, saying individuals cannot be condemned to suffer harm to their reputation merely because information about them remains indefinitely available in the digital domain.HC said search engines such as Google cannot be…
Foreign investors continued their selling spree from Indian equities in April, pulling out Rs 60,847 crore from the market. This comes after a massive sell-off in March, when overseas investors had already offloaded shares worth Rs 1,17,775 crore, according to National Securities Depository Limited data. The back-to-back withdrawals have pushed cumulative foreign portfolio investor (FPI)…
Jhunjhunu: Three passengers were killed and five others sustained severe burns in a fire triggered by a Bolero and a dumper collision near Thirpali toll plaza on the Chandgothi-Thirpali road of Churu district Thursday late evening, police said.According to the police, the accident occurred on the border of the Pilani area of Jhunjhunu and the…
Production has officially begun on season six of ‘Only Murders in the Building’, with leading stars Selena Gomez, Steve Martin and Martin Short stepping out into a busy London neighbourhood to film the show.The trio were spotted on Wednesday, taking to a busy street to film an outdoor segment. On spotting the stars, fans were…
Stanley Milgram’s 1961–62 Yale University experiment tested obedience, where participants believed they delivered painful electric shocks to others under authority. In the early 1960s, a deceptively simple question took shape inside a laboratory at Yale University: how far would an ordinary person go if instructed by an authority figure to harm someone else? The answer,…
The complainants — faculty members of Punjab Engineering College, Sector 12 — had faced delay in possession of their property Mohali: In a significant ruling, the Punjab Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) has directed a real estate promoter to pay around Rs 25 lakh as delay interest to homebuyers, holding that project timelines must be…
Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court has quashed an order of the Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation (RSRTC) permanently withholding the pension of an 80-year-old retired employee convicted in a corruption case, observing that even in such matters authorities cannot bypass principles of natural justice.A single-judge bench of Justice Anand Sharma passed the order on May…
Civic officials demolish house belonging to Karnail Singh Virka in Phugewadi Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) on Thursday began demolishing an unauthorised house in Phugewadi belonging to Karnail Singh Virka, one of the accused arrested in connection with the recent illicit liquor deaths in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad.The civic action was carried out…
Hyderabad: A 74-year-old retired professor from the University of Hyderabad lost Rs 3.2 crore in a cryptocurrency investment scam, prompting the Telangana Cyber Security Bureau (TGCSB) to register a case on Monday.According to the complaint, the complainant, a resident of Hyderguda was first contacted on Facebook in Aug 2025 by a woman identifying herself as…
