Ghaziabad: At least one person died on Ghaziabad roads every day in the first five months of this year, with fatality rates in crashes rising 12% from the same period last year, data shared by the traffic department showed.From Jan to May, the city reported 461 accidents, in which 186 people were killed and 342…
The licence period of these bars originally ended on Dec 31, 2025, but DMK govt extended it for six months till June 30, 2026 Chennai: The unconditional two-month extension of licences of Tasmac bars has raised eyebrows, for every bar violates every rule in the book, every day. It, nevertheless, ends uncertainty surrounding unlicensed bars….
Kolkata: Finance minister Swapan Dasgupta announced a climate-focused budget framework to strengthen resilience, protect ecosystems and support sustainable livelihoods across West Bengal.For 2026-27, the govt allocated Rs 200 crore to establish the Bengal Climate Resilience Fund and the West Bengal Climate Finance Facility. These will support the state action plan on climate change, attract external…
The triumphant India’s men’s and women’s soft hockey teams with Soft Hockey Federation of India General Secretary Ramesh Singh and other officials Jaipur: India have achieved a historic double triumph in the first South Asian Soft Hockey Championship held in Kathmandu. Both the Indian men’s and women’s teams performed brilliantly and swept the titles.In the…
Pune: Accused Chetan Chaudhary fatally pushed real estate firm director Ketan Agarwal off a cliff at Lohagad Fort on June 18, allegedly acting on a plan hatched with Agarwal’s fiancée, Siya Goyal, the Pune Rural police said on Wednesday, a day after arresting the two on charge of murdering Gahunje realtor.Deputy superintendent of police (Pune…
Rajasthan Royals’ skipper Riyan Parag (ANI Photo) Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar has launched a sharp critique of Rajasthan Royals captain Riyan Parag’s tactical call to hand Donovan Ferreira the 18th over in their IPL 2026 clash against Delhi Capitals, calling it a “suicidal move” that changed the course of the match. Gavaskar did not…
Lucknow: In a flurry of transfers between Sunday and Monday, UP govt transferred 61 IAS officers, giving the state 25 new district magistrates. Ayodhya gets a new DM, Shashank Tripathi, a 2016 batch officer who was DM of Barabanki before this. Former Lucknnow municipal commissioner and incumbent special secretary energy Inderjit Singh is the new…
Proceedings underway in the Bengal assembly on Monday Kolkata: The Bengal assembly on Monday passed two amendment bills aimed at overhauling the legal framework governing reservations for Other Backward Classes (OBCs), restoring greater powers to the West Bengal Commission for Backward Classes while scrapping the statutory recognition accorded to a list of OBC communities under…
For decades, dinosaurs like Velociraptor have dominated our imagination as fast-moving predators that chased prey across dusty landscapes. But deep in the fossil-rich rocks of southern Patagonia, scientists have uncovered a very different kind of raptor, one that may have spent much of its life standing quietly beside rivers, waiting for fish.The newly identified dinosaur,…
Kolkata: A man, accused of sexually assaulting and murdering his live-in partner’s 3-year-old daughter near Maidan on March 21, has been arrested from Babughat on Friday morning. He had initially fled to Ayodhya to evade arrest.Police said the child’s mother was in a relationship with the man from Rabindranagar. Investigators alleged that both were addicted…
