Kolkata: A local grassroots worker claiming to be a booth president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been arrested in east Kolkata for allegedly abducting, assaulting, and extorting a prawn processing factory worker through an illegal “kangaroo court” while trying to settle “an illicit affair.”The incident unfolded under the jurisdiction of the Purba Jadavpur…
Noida: The city may soon have its own Kendall Square or Tsukuba Science City, with Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority planning five university townships — planned conglomerates of higher education institutions, research centres and skilling facilities — spanning 500 to 700 acres, located within or adjacent to a major industrial corridor.The layout is designed to…
Coelho visited Our Lady of Grace High School, Bicholim, where she interacted with Class VII and VIII students Panaji: After national windsurfing champion Katya Coelho was featured in the Class VIII Konkani textbook this academic year under the National Education Policy’s push to localise textbooks, she made her first visit to a school in Bicholim,…
Varanasi: Holding her three-month-old son, a 22-year-old woman, resident of Ramapur village under Jiyanpur police station area of Azamgarh district, jumped into Tamsa River on Monday.Villagers launched a rescue effort and was pulled the woman out alive near Panshabda village, about 3 km away and was admitted to a hospital. The infant died while the…
Ahmedabad: Fourteen iPhones allegedly vanished from a parcel inside a luxury bus travelling from Pune to Ahmedabad. The phones, valued at Rs 10.7 lakh, were reportedly removed while the driver and cleaner were distracted.The parcel’s sender approached Ramol police on Monday.According to the complaint, the theft took place between 10.30am on July 15 and 3.30pm…
While 1.65 lakh trees were classified as healthy, the report highlighted 32,876 mechanically cut trees as evidence of illegal felling. Ludhiana: Punjab’s first comprehensive tree census has mapped 2,00,000 trees across 46 municipal wards in Ludhiana, revealing a predominantly young canopy and flagging widespread illegal felling with nearly 33,000 mechanically cut trees.Ordered by the National…
BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) president Joginder Singh Ugrahan Bathinda: Differences have cropped up within the Punjab chapter of the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) over a planned protest in Chandigarh from Sept 1, driven by disagreements over asking the state assembly to annul all inter-state water-sharing agreements.BKU (Ekta-Ugrahan) and Kisan Sangharsh Committee Punjab have distanced themselves from…
Pune: The city has already received more rain than its normal quota for the entire June-Sept monsoon season, recording 655.6mm till Tuesday morning as against the seasonal average of 647.2mm.The excess, however, has been driven largely by one exceptionally wet spell in July, while both June and Aug have recorded below-normal rainfall.The city has received…
Surat: A foreign national died at an Railway Police Force (RPF) post in Surat on Monday night after he was detained following a quarrel with co-passengers aboard the Golden Temple Express.The man, whose identity and nationality are yet to be established, allegedly got violent during the altercation and was brought to the RPF post with…
Guwahati: Assam plans to partner with Spices Board India to turn its spice production into higher-value business opportunities.The state govt is preparing a long-term institutional partnership through a memorandum of understanding (MoU), focusing on processing, value addition and better market realisation for farmers.The proposal was discussed during a meeting with Spices Board India secretary MS…
