More than 33,000 students in govt primary schools are waiting for a Direct Benefit Transfer meant to cover uniforms, shoes, sweaters, school bags and stationery Noida: Sunita Devi’s son has outgrown his uniform. It has thinned at the seams, and in the heat and humidity, it soaks through with sweat within minutes of the walk…
New Delhi: A 38-year-old woman who had got married last year died under suspicious circumstances at her house in east Delhi’s West Vinod Nagar area on Thursday morning, police said.The deceased was identified as Geeta Thakur. She married Rakesh Kumar on Oct 1 last year.Police said a PCR call regarding the alleged suicide of a…
KOLKATA: Bengal govt on Wednesday handed over an initial 75 acres to BSF to cover fencing of 27 km of international border between India and Bangladesh. CM Suvendu Adhikari, who earlier promised to start the land handover process after the BJP govt assumed office, said that completion of the critical, long-pending fencing along the India-Bangladesh…
Mohali: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday conducted simultaneous raids at multiple locations linked to two builders across Chandigarh and Mohali in a suspected financial irregularities probe.Sources said searches were carried out at five to six premises by joint teams from the ED’s Chandigarh and Delhi units. Officials reached the sites early in the day…
Mumbai: Bandra Police arrested a man from Tamil Nadu in connection with a cyberfraud in which a Mumbaikar was duped of Rs 3.6 lakh. Police said the accused’s bank account wasused to receive defrauded sums in at least four other cyberfraud cases.The incident pertains to last year. In July 2025, the complainant was contacted by…
Political heat over cancellation of NEET is likely to rise with a parliamentary committee headed by Congress’s Digvijaya Singh asking NTA chairperson and higher education secretary to appear before the panel on May 21, as it seeks an update on the probe into the leak of question papers of the exam and the K Radhakrishnan…
Inflation has remained above the US Fed’s 2% target for more than five years. (AP photo) Kevin Warsh-led Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to keep the interest rate unchanged in the 3.5-3.75% range. The US Federal Reserve announced the monetary policy review after deliberations on July 28 and July 29. “The Committee decided to…
An autorickshaw cautiously makes its way through a waterlogged stretch near Khadki railway station as heavy rains lash the city Pune: The combined storage in the Khadakwasla dam system shot up to 8.32 TMC (28.5% of total capacity) after receiving an inflow of 2.6 TMC, enough to meet the city’s demand for almost two months,…
MCG officials said repair work will begin on Tuesday night Gurgaon: A section of the road in Chandan Nagar near Sector 15 Part 2 caved in recently, prompting authorities to barricade the stretch amid safety concerns for motorists and pedestrians.MCG officials said the collapse occurred above an underground sewer pipeline and is suspected to have…
Guwahati: Redrawn constituency boundaries in Assam reduced the number of Muslim-majority seats from 35 to 22, reshaping traditional Muslim voter strongholds and influencing the outcome of the first assembly election held after the 2023 delimitation exercise.While the total number of assembly seats remained unchanged at 126, the delimitation had a clear effect on representation, keeping…
