Hyderabad: Telangana high court has directed the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) to pay 9% annual interest to IT firm Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt Ltd on Rs 4.05 crore that it continued to retain even after an appellate authority set aside the provident fund demand against the company.Justice Nagesh Bheemapaka directed that the interest be…
Former Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim Kolkata: Fifty-one former Trinamool councillors met at a hotel in east Kolkata on Saturday to chalk out their future strategy amid mounting pressure on former mayor Firhad Hakim following the Taratala building collapse.Hakim skipped the meeting, which was chaired by MLAs Jawed Khan and Sandipan Saha.Addressing the gathering, Saha said,…
Panaji: After Goa got its very own cow breed Shwet Kapila, the state is likely to get a dog breed indigenous to it to its name. The Goa State Biodiversity Board (GSBB) has identified a breed of local dog Luthi, which is thought to be peculiar to the state.The board is now on the lookout…
Varanasi: Three people, including an eight-year-old boy, were killed in separate lightning strikes as thunderstorms accompanied by heavy rain swept through Sonbhadra and Mirzapur districts on Friday. The sudden change in weather also uprooted trees and electric poles, disrupted power supply and caused property damage across the region.Two of the deaths occurred in Sonbhadra, where…
Ahmedabad: The admission committee has completed the first round of degree engineering seat allotments in Gujarat. Out of 41,688 participating students, 33,993 were allotted seats, while 7,687 left empty-handed due to insufficient choices.Accounting for nearly 50% occupancy, 33,993 of the total 61,316 available seats were filled. Admitted students must pay their token tuition fee online…
Jaspal Singh and Yuvraj Singh Parmar clinched the gold medal in the men’s double scull event at the Under-23 National Rowing Championship on Saturday at the Army Rowing Node, Pune. Pune: Chandigarh Rowing Association (CRA) rowers Jaspal Singh and Yuvraj Singh Parmar clinched the gold medal in the men’s double scull event at the Under-23…
A Supreme Court order last Sept made TET compulsory for all teachers, including those already employed Pune: Barely weeks after the NEET paper leak sparked nationwide outrage, the Maharashtra State Examination Council (MSCE) on Saturday postponed the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) 2026 after police uncovered an alleged question paper leak just a day before the…
Guwahati: Assam is set to launch one of its biggest public health campaigns on Sunday as part of National Immunisation Day, targeting nearly 45 lakh children aged 0-5 for polio vaccination across all districts. In Greater Guwahati, around two lakh children in the age group have been identified to receive the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV).To…
Lucknow: More than 1.6 lakh new domestic Piped Natural Gas (PNG) connections have been issued across UP till June 24, taking the total domestic consumer figure up to 22.27 lakh as the state continues to expand its city gas distribution (CGD) network.According to official figures, 1,60,121 new household PNG connections have been released across 43…
Jaipur: Rajasthan could gain 13 additional Lok Sabha seats if the long-pending delimitation exercise is carried out after the next Census, according to a working paper released this month by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM).An additional 13 Lok Sabha seats would take the state’s tally from the current 25 to 38.The…
