Kolkata: An 11-year-old boy in Joynagar was allegedly abused by a local man after a minor accident during play.The boy was playing with friends after school when a stick in his hand accidentally hit a passerby, Tapan Haldar. Haldar allegedly dragged the boy by his hair, made him do sit-ups in public, then took him…
Shillong: Meghalaya CM Conrad K Sangma said the state’s matrilineal society — where women are key custodians of land and agriculture — offers valuable case studies for global agricultural policy, especially on the links between land ownership, productivity and sustainability.“This sense of ownership fosters deep commitment, responsibility and sustainability in farming practices,” he said at…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday message for Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan by asking whether the prime minister had “spared a thought” for aspirants whose deaths by suicide were linked to the NEET-UG paper leak.“Each name on this list was a child with a dream,…
USCIS denies a citizenship plea because the applicant sent LinkedIn request to USCIS staff. An attorney cited a case where a person who applied for US citizenship was denied on the grounds of bad moral character. The USCIS said the applicant sent a LinkedIn request to USCIS staff so that they could “have access to…
Manufacturing bullet trains involves an entirely different set of capabilities. (AI image) Come 2027 and India may launch its first bullet train service. The Surat–Bilimora section of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project is expected to be operational by August 2027. While that will put it into a league of few countries that have high-speed rail…
Pulkit Samrat reveals Salman Khan’s advice before his debut changed his outlook on stardom: ‘Don’t have the guarantee of my next Friday’ Making a place in Bollywood without industry guidance can be an uphill battle, but Pulkit Samrat says he was fortunate to have Salman Khan by his side during the early years of his…
The Madras High Court on Friday, struck down a Tamil Nadu government order that allowed people from Backward Classes (BC), Most Backward Classes (MBC), Denotified Communities (DNC) and Scheduled Castes (SC) who converted to Islam to continue receiving reservation benefits under the Backward Class Muslim (BCM) category.A division bench of Justices GR Swaminathan and PB…
While India’s teenage batter Vaibhav Sooryavanshi had to wait for his international debut, Ireland handed a first T20I cap to India-born left-arm pacer Jai Moondra in the opening match of the series at the Civil Service Cricket Club in Belfast on Friday.India captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and chose to field first. India went…
Hyderabad: As the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls gains momentum across Telangana, language has emerged as an unexpected hurdle, with voters struggling to fill enumeration forms distributed by booth level officers (BLOs).A TOI ground report found that forms are not being distributed uniformly. While some localities received English forms, others were given Telugu…
Agartala: The tragic explosion at a flat in the Ramnagar locality here on Thursday claimed its first victim on Friday, as Shubhrajit Choudhury, who sustained critical injuries in the blast, succumbed during treatment at Gobind Ballabh Pant (GBP) Hospital.Shubhrajit was an employee at the Abacus Agartala Head Office mathematics study circle. The news of his…
