Fire At Free School Street Lodge Kolkata: More than 100 hotels and guest houses across Kolkata stared at closure as civic and fire officials on Saturday continued the inspection of safety compliance and statutory clearances at these establishments. The city’s hotel room inventory was estimated to have shrunk by around 1,500 in just three days.The…
Margao: Twenty-five years ago, a group of Konkani language activists sat down to solve a problem that had quietly troubled them for years — an entire generation educated in English, Marathi and Portuguese, yet unable to find its voice in its own mother tongue. What emerged from those brainstorming sessions was a storytelling competition for…
Varanasi: Over 97% of the total seats in the undergraduate programmes in Banaras Hindu University are filled as the university winds up regular rounds of UG admissions for academic session 2026–27. Of the total 4,826 seats up for grabs in the Varanasi and Barkachha campuses, 4,720 seats are occupied, accounting for 97.8% of the total…
Today, the restored heritage building is preparing to open a new chapter as an Education and Innovation Centre for girls On a winter afternoon in 2020, Spanish architect Manuel M de Las Heras was passing through Ahmedabad’s Raikhad neighbourhood when a century-old govt girls’ high school caught his eye. The elegant vintage facade drew him…
CPCC flags pollution in Patiala Ki Rao, Faidan Choe Chandigarh: Patiala Ki Rao and Faidan Choe have recorded high levels of pollution, with several key parameters exceeding permissible limits and dissolved oxygen (DO) falling to nil, says a monitoring study carried out by Chandigarh Pollution Control Committee (CPCC) during the first three months of 2026….
Guwahati: With an estimated 4.52 lakh out-of-school children aged 14-18 in Assam, Samagra Shiksha has launched the statewide “Shiksha Yatra – From Challenges to Aspirations” survey to identify, track and mainstream out-of-school children (OoSC), dropouts and students who have been absent for long periods. The exercise will also help plan open-schooling support for more than…
Doctors at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) successfully removed a 6.5 kg abdomino-pelvic mass from a 48-year-old postmenopausal woman Lucknow: A 48-year-old postmenopausal woman was relieved of an abdomino-pelvic mass weighing 6.5 kg by doctors at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, marking the institute’s third consecutive successful surgery for a…
I-T Dept Found Improper Certification Enabled Overseas Transfers Rajkot: Police have booked nine people, including four who identified themselves as chartered accountants, for allegedly facilitating foreign remittances worth Rs 804.30 crore through improperly issued Form 15CB certificates, following a complaint by the Income Tax department’s investigation wing.Gandhidham ‘A’ Division police registered the offence late on…
Jaipur: The probe into the alleged multi-crore crop-insurance racket in Nagaur widened Saturday, with Special Operations Group (SOG) and Nagaur Police’s Special Investigation Team (SIT) questioning 12 suspects for nearly six hours as investigators sought to unravel the alleged network.SOG and SIT also searched three locations linked to the suspects and scrutinised documents and digital…
Air Marshal Kapoor (Retd) did not totally rule out the role of Tejas Mk2 in future NEW DELHI: Less than two months after retirement as the IAF’s vice chief, Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor (Retd) has slammed the delay in the delivery of Tejas (LCA) fighter jet by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited to the air force, saying,…
