Chennai: City student Thammina Girish has secured 100 percentile and secured all India rank 10 in JEE (mains) exam. The national testing agency (NTA) has declared the second session of the exam along with ranks on Monday.“All India rank 10 was a pleasant surprise. I did not expect such a high rank in the JEE…
Hyderabad: Telangana high court has set aside an order passed by the State Information Commission, citing blatant violation of natural justice. Justice Surepally Nanda passed the order recently while disposing of a writ petition filed by a daily wage labourer, Boddupalli Shankaraiah, who challenged the commission’s decision to close his complaint without giving him a…
Kolkata: “Bulldozer”, “bullets” and “dead miscreants” analogies figured in the speeches of BJP’s central netas who campaigned in poll-bound Bengal on Sunday and Monday.Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma’s “bullets for a bullet” rhetoric was matched by Union defence minister Rajnath Singh, who referred to perpetrators of violence landing up in jail or dead after BJP…
Panaji: Chief minister Pramod Sawant ignored concerns raised by the Captain of Ports and the ports secretary while giving the green light for Delta Corp to bring a 112-metre-long offshore casino into the Mandovi river.RTI documents show that the Captain of Ports expressed misgivings about the entry of such a large vessel into the Mandovi…
Varanasi: Police busted a sex racket on Sunday night after locals reported suspicious activity at a newly constructed building in Bhatuapura colony under Chitaipur police station area.Bhelupur ACP Gaurav Kumar said a team from Special Operation Group-2 and Chitaipur police first nabbed one woman and three men from a new house in Bhatuapura. During questioning,…
Gandhinagar: The Gujarat forest department has drawn up ambitious plans to set up distinct corridors for three big cats — tiger, cheetah and leopard. While the tiger and leopard corridor is proposed to be set up from Aravalli in North Gujarat to Dang in South Gujarat, the cheetah corridor will come up at the Banni…
Panchkula: A nurse was found dead under mysterious circumstances at Civil Hospital, Sector 6, Panchkula, on Sunday night, with the disappearance of her mobile phone raising suspicion.The deceased, identified as Preeti Beniwal, was found unconscious in a changing room near the emergency ward and was later declared dead by doctors. A cannula was reportedly attached…
Pune: The PMPML has been directed by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) to pay within two months Rs85.4 lakh compensation to the husband and two daughters of a senior lab technician killed in an accident on Aug 21, 2023.The accident had occurred at the Navratna hotel square on Katraj-Swargate Road. The PMPML bus had…
Guwahati: Assam chief secretary Ravi Kota on Monday held a comprehensive review after torrential rain triggered artificial floods in Guwahati. He asked the Guwahati Municipal Corporation, Guwahati Metropolitan Development Authority and the Water Resources Department to stay on 24×7 operational alert to tackle waterlogging in vulnerable areas of the city.Considering past incidents, including last year’s…
Lucknow: Laharpur police in Sitapur have registered an FIR against six individuals, including a former sub-divisional magistrate (SDM), over allegations of fraud.The case, dating back nearly 25 years, revolves around allegations that the main accused, Manoj Kumar, fraudulently changed his father’s name in official documents to establish a claim over ancestral property.Police said the FIR…
