Kolkata: Some 100 lawyers came together at Calcutta High Court on Friday in support of students protesting at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, and against issues like eviction of hawkers, among others. The protest started from the main building of the HC and continued till the E gate.Though the timing of the protest coincided with the one…
Cops found drag marks cutting through the crop, which had been flattened along the route leading to the body Ghaziabad: Two days after the body of a woman, believed to be around 25, was found in Kajipur forest, police are yet to establish her identity. Officers said she was dragged around 40 metres from a…
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Chandigarh: Harpreet Singh Sudan, a 2013-batch IAS officer of the Punjab cadre, Friday joined the municipal corporation (MC), Chandigarh, as special municipal commissioner.The exact responsibilities of the newly appointed officer are yet to be finalised. Sources said Sudan may either be allotted specific departments or serve as a coordinating link between the three joint municipal…
Pune: A 27-year-old medical postgraduate student, succumbed to his injuries during treatment on Friday following a road accident.The accident occurred late on Wednesday night on the Pune-Nashik highway near Chakan. The police identified the deceased as Prashant Dasarwar, a native of Nanded district. His colleague, Mahesh Awale, is undergoing treatment at a hospital.An officer from…
People wade through the waterlogged road following heavy rainfall, in Guwahati on Friday Guwahati: Unchecked hillside development in Meghalaya threatens Guwahati and worsens urban flooding, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Friday.“I think the Meghalaya govt has to take sympathetic consideration regarding the impact (flood) in Assam; otherwise, Guwahati will be an unmanageable city,” he…
Akhilesh Yadav speaks to mediapersons Lucknow: Suggesting that Central govt was making a big deal about the students’ demand for education minister’s resignation, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav said the move will only serve as an admission that govt failure had led to paper leak.“What will happen if the Centre today makes the education minister…
File photo of JDA building Jaipur: Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) commissioner Siddharth Mahajan Friday issued a stern warning to recently transferred officials, saying corruption complaints would invite direct action by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). The meeting was attended by tehsildars and officials from the forest and legal depts.Mahajan reiterated JDA’s zero-tolerance policy on corruption and…
NEW DELHI: Buoyed by the response to his midnight post on Instagram Thursday, which got 305 million views, PM Modi Friday returned to the social media platform. “Thank you, friends. I had an opportunity to connect with you late last night. The way you responded to my video post and gave constructive suggestions, thanks to…
For decades, discussions about the earliest stages of ape evolution have largely centred on East Africa. Many of the fossils that shaped scientific thinking were discovered there, leading to the view that the region was the primary setting where the ancestors of modern apes first diversified before spreading elsewhere. That picture has now become less…
