Kolkata: Calcutta University syndicate, the highest decision-making body, has approved a new postgraduate academic calendar—July to June—aligning it with the national academic schedule. The new schedule will be implemented from the upcoming session.CU has never had an academic calendar for PG courses, as a result of which there has been no structured beginning of an…
Ahmedabad: After a brief, three-day flirtation with comparatively cooler weather, Ahmedabad has re-entered the furnace. The city’s maximum temperature climbed to 43.2°C, nearly two degrees above the seasonal average, on Thursday, effectively ending the short-lived respite. While parts of Gujarat recently enjoyed a dip in the mercury due to local weather shifts, the India meteorological…
Kolkata: Income-tax officials on Friday raided CM Mamata Banerjee‘s poll nomination proposer Miraj Shah (also the trustee of one of the state’s biggest private educational institutions), and Trinamool’s Rashbehari candidate Debashis Kumar, prompting the CM to call BJP “cowards and spineless” and ask why it is so scared. “Ballots, and not bullets, win polls,” she…
Cleared – maniChennai: Cybercrime cases registered in Tamil Nadu nearly tripled between 2022 and 2024, rising from 2,082 cases in 2022 to 5,793 in 2024, according to data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) on Thursday.The State recorded 4,121 cybercrime cases in 2023 before the figure increased further in 2024. Fraud committed through…
Though there was no direct eyewitness to the murder, the court said a complete chain of circumstantial evidence established the crime Ghaziabad: A minor who spotted a man sexually assaulting his friend was assaulted and killed by the same man within hours, his body dumped in a forested area. Eight years after the crime, a…
MUMBAI: A group of residents in Juhu has launched its own civic platform that functions as an “issue collector”, allowing citizens to flag and document local problems in real time.Residents who are part of the volunteer network can upload complaints ranging from garbage and sanitation issues to illegal pavement encroachments, political hoardings, water leakages, tree…
Princess Diana (Image: Wikipedia) There are moments in public life that don’t survive because they are grand, but because they are simple. Princess Diana’s words about kindness belong to that category. They don’t sound like a slogan or a carefully packaged message. They sound closer to something overheard in a private conversation, something said without…
Amritsar: Akal Takht officiating jathedar Giani Kuldip Singh Gargajj has demanded the removal of “contentious provisions” in the Jaagat Jyot Sri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar (Amendment) Act, 2026, within 15 days, warning that failure to comply could lead to a formal meeting of the five Sikh high priests and strict Panthic action.The ultimatum followed a…
Amritsar: The Amritsar police claims to have busted a cross-border drug and arms smuggling module with the arrest of three accused and seizure of 915gm ICE (methamphetamine), five sophisticated pistols from their possession.Commissioner of Police (CP) Amritsar Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said . the recovered pistols included two 9mm Glock and three .30 bore pistols along…
CHENNAI: The mood in the TVK camp changed from jubilation to anxiety by Wednesday evening as C Joseph Vijay’s party found itself staring at a five-seat gap in forming govt in an assembly of 234 even after Congress offered support. TVK sources said the governor insisted on letters of support from an adequate number of…
