Kolkata: Govt-run high and higher secondary schools across the state are facing a “fresh manpower crunch” after the appointment of headmasters/headmistress and teachers as census enumerators and supervisors, according to school authorities. The heads of these govt schools and senior teachers are seeking exemption from census duty, citing that many teachers from their institutions are…
Traffic cops closed a cut and opened a U-turn 200 metres away from Ingraham School in Hapur Chungi area for traffic heading towards Kavi Nagar from Meerut Tiraha and RDC Ghaziabad: Traffic police’s latest experiment to ease congestion came under scrutiny after a trial on Sunday triggered snarls at Hapur Chungi, one of the busiest…
Keri: In a horticultural field at Galwada in Priol, near the Betal temple, a set of upright stone sculptures revered by locals stands as a memorial to those who sacrificed their lives to defend honour in bygone days.The stones, known as Barazan, are located in an orchard owned by Manohar Korde. In Cultural History of…
Varanasi: The Varanasi Municipal Corporation (VMC) launched an immediate response on Monday morning after heavy rain triggered waterlogging in several parts of the city, with municipal commissioner Himanshu Nagpal personally monitoring the operation. Nagpal coordinated the Engineering, Health and Jal Kal departments to ensure a swift response.The Jalkal department was directed to inspect the condition…
AMC removed the tyre killers within hours of installing them on Monday morning Ahmedabad: The civic body has faced yet another failure with tyre killers. This time, officials from Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s (AMC) North-West Zone had to themselves remove the speed barriers they had laid on Monday morning, within a couple of hours. The reason:…
The MC will pay PEC a consultancy fee of Rs 10.8 lakh, plus GST, for undertaking independent quality checks Chandigarh: To ensure that the upgradation of the Kajauli water works meets prescribed technical standards and quality benchmarks, the municipal corporation (MC), Chandigarh, has appointed Punjab Engineering College (PEC) as the third-party quality assurance agency for…
Pune: Thirty families from flood-prone pockets of Aundh were relocated to a nearby municipal school on Monday as Pune Municipal Corporation activated 49 relief centres across the city to support residents affected by heavy rain, waterlogging and flooding.“A large contingent of manpower and machinery has been deployed on the ground to support disaster management operations…
Guwahati: The Assam govt on Monday said fencing could not be erected along 4.35km of the state’s border with Bangladesh due to objections from the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).Border protection and development minister Atul Bora, in a written reply to a query by AGP MLA Diptimayee Choudhury, said there is also no fencing along 34.609km…
Lucknow: Doctors at the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) successfully removed a rare five-kilogram uterine fibroid from a 30-year-old woman while preserving her uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries in a complex surgery.The woman had visited the institute’s gynaecology outpatient department with severe abdominal swelling caused by a large abdominal mass. Scans showed…
Jaipur: The Rajasthan Special Operations Group (SOG) Monday disclosed the arrest of two accused in separate recruitment examinations and fake FMGE (Foreign Medical Graduate Exam) certificate cases. Both accused were arrested on July 2, according to the SOG.In the fake FMGE certificate racket, the SOG arrested Charan Singh, 27, a resident of Gopalgarh in Deeg…
