Bengaluru: A 36-year-old man filed a complaint with Vidhana Soudha police, accusing four men of duping him of Rs 26 lakh after promising him a job of panchayat development officer with rural development and panchayat raj department.GK Raghunandan, senior manager with a private gold firm in Whitefield, told police he met the main suspect, Santosh…
Chennai: Refusing to regularise the services of temporary employees in the district judiciary, Madras high court has directed the judicial administration to discontinue the practice of making temporary appointments and, instead, conduct annual recruitment to fill sanctioned posts through regular selection process.A division bench of justices S M Subramaniam and N Senthilkumar passed the order…
Parakala Prabhakar, Indian economist and political commentator, addressing the gathering Gauhar Raza, former Chief Scientist at CSIR-NISCAIR, speaking at a convention in the city Parakala Prabhakar, Indian economist and political commentator, addressing the gathering Gauhar Raza, former Chief Scientist at CSIR-NISCAIR, speaking at a convention in the city Parakala Prabhakar, Indian economist and political commentator,…
Manesar to survey PGs, hotels, guest houses in residential areas, commercial tax or sealing awaits violators Gurgaon: Days after department of town and country planning launched a crackdown on unauthorised paying guests (PGs) and guesthouses operating from residential properties in the city, MCM will begin recovering property tax from such establishments. “If they fail to…
After marching from Sealdah to Esplanade, the protesters clashed with the cops at the Dorina Crossing when they tried to stage a sit-in demonstration. pic by Subhojyoti Kanjilal Kolkata: The Kolkata leg of the nationwide students’ protests on Friday lasted 1.5 hours and covered a 3-odd-km stretch, bringing the city centre to a grinding halt…
Noida: Police arrested three members of an interstate vehicle theft gang on Pusa Road Friday and recovered 10 two-wheelers, a .315-bore pistol and a live cartridge.The three accused — Vikas Kumar, Rohit and Kuldeep — allegedly operated in an organised manner across Delhi-NCR. Additional DCP (Noida) Manisha Singh said, “They first surveyed malls, hospitals, metro…
Flooding at Bodakdev in Ahmedabad Ahmedabad: At a time when occupancy was already high due to business events, hotels across the city ran out of rooms on the night of July 23 as torrential rain and widespread waterlogging stranded travellers, disrupted transport and even pushed locals to seek overnight accommodation.The city was hosting an investment…
Rows of newly planted saplings at the Dadumajra dumping site, where the MC is developing an eight-acre green buffer with 10,000-12,000 trees and shrubs to improve air quality, reduce pollution and shield nearby areas from the legacy waste site Chandigarh: The municipal corporation, Chandigarh, has decided to deploy round-the-clock security guards and around 10 dedicated…
The education department’s focus is to bring students back to schools Pune: A digital attendance system has been introduced in civic schools to tackle student absenteeism, starting with one on Sinhagad Road on a pilot basis.The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) officials said that under the new system, students’ attendance would be recorded online, with parents…
Dibrugarh: Floods destroyed academic records and disrupted the admission process, prompting Dibrugarh University to announce relief measures for affected students.Vice-chancellor Jiten Hazarika said in a notification on Friday that students unable to travel to the university may complete admission formalities online. The measure covers remaining programmes for which admissions are still conducted offline, including the…
