TISS has also instituted a Viksit Bharat fellows programme under the initiative Mumbai: The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) has launched the Viksit Bharat Vichar Kendra (VBVK), an interdisciplinary think tank aimed at strengthening policy research and academic engagement around India’s development goals under Viksit Bharat.Set up as a five-year institutional initiative, this centre…
Bengaluru: Hen is considered livestock, Karnataka high court ruled in a recent judgment while upholding the compensation awarded over the loss of 2,250 broiler hens in a road accident.The hens were being transported in a truck from Chitradurga district’s Challakere to Tadipatri in Andhra Pradesh on June 19, 2013. At 4am, the speeding vehicle met…
Chennai: Leader of the opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin questioned chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s shift in his stand on delimitation, resulting in an intense debate in the state assembly on Friday. TVK ministers maintained that the party has not changed its position.Udhayanidhi flagged the issue, citing Vijay’s speech in Southern Zone Council meeting chaired by Union…
Hyderabad: Two city residents have lost ₹1.58 crore in separate online stock investment frauds executed through Telegram groups and fake trading platforms. On the complaint of the victims, Hyderabad Cyber Crime police registered two FIRs on Thursday.In the first case, a 36-year-old businessman from Sultan Shahi told police that he was added to a Telegram…
Six of Bhatti’s alleged local operatives are currently lodged in Haryana jails Gurgaon: Haryana Police intensified the crackdown on Pakistan-based gangster-turned-terror operative Shehzad Bhatti’s network, registering seven cases under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) against Bhatti and his local associates across Ambala, Karnal, Hisar and Kurukshetra over the past year.Six of Bhatti’s alleged local operatives…
The VC reportedly monitored the situation from Technology Bhavan. pciture by Debobrata Shome Kolkata: The students and professors of Jadavpur University protested against the ‘missing VC’ on Thursday though he was very much on campus monitoring the situation from the Technology Bhavan.VC Chiranjib Bhattacharjee said: “I was present at the university from 10:15 am to…
Noida: National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has removed insolvency professional Narender Kumar Sharma as the interim resolution professional (IRP) for the stalled Festival City housing project in Sector 143B, after finding that he had failed to disclose disciplinary proceedings and allegedly accepted the assignment without a valid authorisation.The tribunal has appointed Sudhir Kumar Agarwal as…
Panaji: As BJP-led govt lines up 13 bills for passage in the three-day monsoon session, opposition parties want to force a discussion on unregulated land conversion in the state.Govt wants to bring in bills pertaining to reforms and to increase the budgetary allocation for departments, said chief minister Pramod Sawant on Friday after the business…
Varanasi: A 38-year-old woman was found with her throat slit inside her home under the Bardah police station limits of Azamgarh on Thursday afternoon, with police suspecting murder.The victim, Akbari, was found lying in a pool of blood by her two school-going sons when they returned home around 1 pm. On being alerted, police, forensic…
Ahmedabad: The Saurashtra coastline is set for a major space push, with state science and technology minister Arjun Modhwadiya on Friday announcing that a space launching station (spaceport) will come up near Kodinar in Saurashtra.The minister made the announcement while speaking at the launch of a three-day space festival at Science City in Ahmedabad. India…
