The higher education department is set to commence promotion under the career advancement scheme (CAS) which was due on Jan 1, 2025. A memorandum issued by the department said teachers, librarians and directors of physical education and sports of state-aided universities will have pay revision. Jadavpur University Teachers Association president Partha Pratim Ray said, “Those…
The incident was captured on CCTV and was shared widely on social media Ghaziabad: A former member of the apartment owners’ association of GH-7 in Crossings Republik was punched and kicked by a resident of the same housing society inside a lift, police said.The victim, Deepak Chopra, filed a complaint regarding the matter at the…
Ancient Sanskrit manuscripts Panaji: Goa’s Sanskrit manuscripts are facing the threat of climate change, said former Goa state museum director Laxman Pitre, who was instrumental in setting up the museum at its previous location at Patto.Speaking at the daylong symposium on history of Sanskrit manuscripts in Goa, Pitre said that rising humidity and moisture pose…
Varanasi: An 18-year-old boy drowned in Ganga while bathing at Markandey Mahadev Ghat in Kaithi under Chaubepur police station area on Wednesday morning. The body was recovered after nearly three hours of search by local divers and police.According to reports, Vaibhav Gupta, a Class XI student, resident of Cholapur, had come to Markandey Mahadev Temple…
Ahmedabad: Two separate road rage incidents in the city left two people injured and a car damaged, with three FIRs registered at Sarkhej and Vadaj police stations.In the complaints filed at Sarkhej police station, a minor traffic dispute between a motorcyclist and an autorickshaw driver escalated into an assault involving sticks and fists near Janpath…
Chandigarh: When human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra was abducted outside his Amritsar home in Sept 1995, another prominent disappearance had already become one of Punjab’s most enduring mysteries. More than two-and-a-half years earlier, 43-year-old Bhai Gurdev Singh Kaunke, the then acting jathedar of the Akal Takht, had disappeared after coming into Punjab Police custody…
Officials said the decision is expected to bring uniformity in development regulations across the PMRDA area and its adjoining municipal corporation limits Pune: State govt on Wednesday extended the Unified Development Control and Promotion Regulations to the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority area and the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation’s 668sqkm Special Planning Authority zone,…
Surat: The district administration has disbursed Rs 11.29 crore in financial assistance to 50,227 flood-affected people across six talukas of Surat as part of the relief package announced for families hit by last week’s floods.On Tuesday alone, 8,222 beneficiaries received over Rs 1.35 crore towards cash doles and compensation for household goods damaged in the…
Silchar: Hailakandi police have recovered 500 more cartons of stolen soft drinks in overnight raids, taking the total recovery in the cargo theft case to 1,510 cartons. Two persons have been arrested so far.Police said the recovery was made during separate raids conducted between Tuesday night and early Wednesday at Borjurai and Nunkhuli villages. The…
Lucknow: Observing that existing laws do not provide an effective mechanism for resolving disputes between apartment owners and Residents’ Welfare Associations (RWAs), a Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to examine the feasibility of creating a dedicated grievance redressal forum.The bench of Justice Alok Mathur and Justice Amitabh…
