Varanasi: 12 persons, including four women and four minors, were killed in Dramandganj area of Mirzapur district on Wednesday night. Of them, nine were travelling in an SUV that turned into a fireball after collision. Locals and drivers of other vehicles said that they tried to rescue them but failed due to the very high…
Ahmedabad: The application process for admissions under the Right to Education (RTE) Act in private schools concluded on Thursday. This year, nearly 2.5 lakh applications were received for more than 84,000 seats available under the 25% RTE quota across the state. The period for filling out forms was initially set from April 4 to April…
Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday appreciated the state’s partnership with Finland’s University of Turku, saying Finnish pedagogical expertise was being integrated into Punjab’s school system to replace rote learning with interactive methods.Mann, who visited the Kukulo-Moikoinen Early Childhood Education and Care Centre during his Finland tour, said the initiative was already yielding…
Pune: The Hadapsar police on Wednesday registered a case of causing death by negligence against the chairman and committee members of a housing society in the same area after a four-and-a-half-year-old girl died on April 15, following the collapse of a slide on her in the society’s play area on April 7.The girl’s father (34),…
Surat: The Khatodara police booked a man claiming to be a media person for allegedly cheating 17 people of Rs 2.44 crore by promising them jobs in the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) and houses under civic body housing schemes.The fraud came to light after the victims realised that no such recruitment or housing allotment existed….
Guwahati: After days of anxiety triggered by a fake notification and rumours about incorrect result dates, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced that the Class XII state board examination results will be declared on April 28.Assam State School Education Board (ASSEB) officials said the results will be released in the morning on April 28…
Lucknow: Professor of Prosthodontics at King George’s Medical University (KGMU) Dr Kamleshwar Singh has been appointed as a member of the Dental Advisory Council of the National Dental Commission (NDC) in New Delhi.He is the only member from Uttar Pradesh among the 23 nominated to the national body, which advises on dental education and policy…
Jaisalmer: A 38-year-old vice-captain in the Merchant Navy from Rajasthan’s Sriganganagar district is among 21 crew members stranded after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) seized the Liberia-flagged container ship Epaminodas in the Strait of Hormuz Wednesday. The vessel was heading to Mundra Port in Gujarat when it was intercepted by the IRGC.Sanjay Mahar, a…
KOLKATA: The family of celebrated painter Nandalal Bose’s grandson voted Thursday in Santiniketan, but only after two to three attempts despite a tribunal clearing their names following SC intervention, exemplifying the hurdles that citizens had to cross to exercise their rights.Suprabuddha Sen (88) and his wife Deepa Sen (82) were initially made to leave the…
Consider embarking on a journey where you rarely have to make a U-turn or travel back down the same road. Rather, the road continues to stretch itself in front of you from one continent to another, through mountain ranges, rainforests, deserts, and cities. This road does exist, and it is known as the Pan-American Highway,…
