Dignitaries at the event at Julien Day School in Kolkata Kolkata: Julien Day School, Kolkata, hosted the second edition of their Grace Julien Memorial Inter-School Science Quiz Competition 2026, in memory of the school’s founder, Grace Julien, on Aug 25.The event brought together teams from 14 prominent schools across the city to test their knowledge…
The cabinet on Sept 15 also approved a proposal to keep the registration fee equal to the stamp duty under each slab Ghaziabad: In a reprieve for tenants and landlords, stamp duty and registration fees for rental agreements have been reduced by the UP cabinet last week. Officials said that this will bring parity with…
Boat owners said better incentives in neighbouring states contributed to the shortage in Goa Panaji: Nearly 25% of trawlers at Cutbona Jetty remain anchored as the post-monsoon fishing season gets underway due to a shortage of labour, with several migratory workers failing to report for duty after being offered better returns by boat owners in…
Gorakhpur: Gorakhnath Temple will organise a week-long tribute programme from Sep 24 to 30 to mark the 57th death anniversary of Brahmaleen Mahant Digvijaynath and the 12th death anniversary of Brahmaleen Mahant Avaidyanath.Temple chief priest Yogi Kamalnath said the annual event will feature religious discourses, conferences on contemporary issues, tribute meetings and community programmes.A week-long…
Ahmedabad: Mere knowledge of the subsistence of an earlier marriage cannot validate a second marriage, nor can it cure its voidness, Gujarat High Court observed while declaring a woman’s marriage null and void after finding that her husband’s first marriage was still subsisting.The court set aside a Vadodara family court order that had rejected the…
Hisar: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken note of a complaint alleging that a man was denied a meeting with then Hansi SP Amit Yashvardhan after he refused to surrender his personal mobile phone. The commission has sought an action-taken report from the Haryana DGP within four weeks.Advocate Naveen Bamel, the complainant, said…
MSEDCL’s Pune zone had set a target to recover Rs1,254 crore by Sept Pune: Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (MSEDCL) has set a target to recover Rs682 crore in outstanding dues by Sept 30.Dinesh Agrawal, executive director (commercial), MSEDCL, who is in charge of overseeing the Pune and Baramati circles, has instructed officials to…
Representatives from around 2,000 units participated in the meeting Surat: Owners of embroidery units in the city held a meeting on Monday to discuss workers’ demands for a paid weekly off and restrictions on working hours, with representatives from around 2,000 units participating.The meeting was organised by the Textile Embroidery Jobwork Association of Surat (Tejas)….
Shillong: Hynniewtrep Youths’ Council (HYC) has expressed “grave concern” over the reported detention in Assam of 27 Bangladeshi nationals who allegedly entered India through Meghalaya’s Dawki sector.It condemned the transit of the illegal entrants through the hill state. “This raises serious and disturbing questions about the effectiveness of border surveillance and the preparedness of the…
The court noted that the victim’s educational records established her age to be a minor. (Representative image) LUCKNOW: A special POCSO court in Bahraich on Monday sentenced a 16-year-old convict, who was a minor at the time of the offence, to 20 years’ rigorous imprisonment for raping a 15-year-old girl and causing her to become…
