Kolkata: A day after CM Suvendu Adhikari held his first meeting with senior cops to outline the new govt’s law-and-order priorities, religious leaders and community organisers across faiths responded supportively to the govt’s new directives on loudspeakers and road usage during prayers and festivals, while stressing that the rules must be implemented fairly and uniformly.Till…
Panaji: A Mapusa court directed that charges be framed under the NDPS Act against 22-year-old Priyanshu Sharma, a native of Uttar Pradesh, after he was allegedly found in illegal possession of narcotic substances at Pilerne during a raid conducted in Oct 2022.The anti-narcotics police carried out the raid between 2.30am and 5.30am at Namoshi, Guirim,…
Chandigarh: A late night raid on a Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) office in Mohali, followed by a dramatic chase, led CBI to arrest three persons, including a father and son, in an alleged Rs 20 lakh bribery case on Monday.A fourth suspect, OP Rana — reader to the Punjab Vigilance DG — is on the…
Guwahati: One of the foremost priorities of CM Himanta Biswa Sarma’s first govt was to free Assam’s valuable land from encroachment — with special focus on reclaiming land belonging to religious and cultural institutions, particularly the Satras (Vaishnavite monasteries).As Sarma prepared to intensify the eviction drive in his second term, targeting the clearance of five…
LUCKNOW: Responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal for austerity and reduced fuel consumption, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday ordered an immediate 50% reduction in the official vehicle fleets of the chief minister, ministers and senior bureaucrats, while calling for a broader public movement towards energy conservation and restrained consumption.Chairing a high-level…
Rajkot: Two youths drowned in a pond at Gajanvav village in Dhrangadhra taluka of Surendranagar district on Tuesday. The deceased have been identified as Rachit Parmar (20) and Mohit Chhasiya (19), both residents of Amraiwadi in Ahmedabad. Police have launched an investigation.According to police, a group of nine friends had travelled from Ahmedabad on Monday…
The new system helped identify nearly 678 doctors who were missing from duty Jaipur: The state health department has initiated action against 678 doctors found absent from duty for years — in some cases for over two decades — after irregularities surfaced through the newly launched RajHealth portal.Officials said the digital platform has emerged as…
NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari shared a cozy moment from the swearing-in ceremony of the Assam government. Along with the exchange the two leaders also possibly alluded towards a shared problem of the two states, that being of the infiltrators.Photos posted by Suvendu Adhikari on…
US universities are seeing a fall in foreign student enrolment, with experts warning the decline could deepen further as Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies continue to reshape country’s higher education system.A new report released on Monday found that international student enrolment for the spring 2026 semester fell by 20% compared with the same period last…
The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Chandigarh has held that the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) cannot cite software glitches or technical issues to justify a nearly 10-year delay in transferring provident fund (PF) accumulations from an employee’s old account to a new one.The commission partly allowed a complaint filed by employee Rajesh Garg and…
