Hyderabad: The state govt has issued fresh Govt Orders introducing a Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT)-based mechanism for post-matric scholarships and fee reimbursement from the current academic year, under which eligible students would receive the assistance directly in their bank accounts instead of educational institutions.The move is expected to cover students belonging to various eligible categories,…
This is an image used for representation Gurgaon: A 22-year-old woman died after a speeding car allegedly hit a bike-taxi near the hilly temple area in DLF Phase 1 on Sunday. The driver of the car rushed the woman and the bike driver to a hospital, where the woman died during treatment on Monday. Police…
Kolkata: To bring in more transparency and curb irregularities in the allocation of work under rural job schemes, state govt has directed all districts to implement mandatory attendance recording through face authentication on the National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) app. The directive came into force on Tuesday.Officials said the measure has been introduced to prevent…
The programme has been conceptualised under the direction of police commissioner Laxmi Singh Noida: The Gautam Budh Nagar police commissionerate is preparing a database of children with special needs as part of its new initiative ‘Operation Invictus’, to ensure the vulnerable section gets regular protection and can avail medical assistance whenever required.The programme has been…
Panaji: The Bombay high court on Tuesday directed the Murda comunidade to clear all the debris dumped in the mangrove area by June 30. Only 25 truckloads of debris were removed from the site over the past few days, with the HC terming this pace of removal “extremely slow”. It said that a large amount…
Gorakhpur: A dispute over the organisation of their mother’s post-death ‘brahm bhoj’ turned fatal in Gorakhpur’s Pipraich area on Tuesday when a man allegedly shot his younger brother dead.The victim, Shubham Sharma, sustained a gunshot wound to the chest and was rushed to Nehru Hospital at BRD Medical College, where doctors declared him dead. The…
SLUG: Rs 1.66cr gold theftAhmedabad: The sales executive accused of stealing gold jewellery worth Rs 1.66 crore from a jewellery showroom in Nikol has moved the Gujarat high court, claiming that crime branch officers had illegally detained her, robbed her of her personal jewellery and cash, and falsely showed that she was arrested in Ahmedabad.Harshida…
Ludhiana: A visitor’s jittery behaviour on Tuesday exposed a clumsy attempt to drop off a special white-powder package to a pair of accused drug dealers inside a high-security local Central Jail. It was substance.Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and prison guards intercepted the suspect, Sukhchain Singh, during routine entry screening before a scheduled meeting with…
Chandigarh: Following the arrest of ASI Hitesh Kumar in a ₹40,000 graft case, the UT police department has dismissed him from service.On Tuesday, SHO Rajiv Kumar of Sector‑39 police station was transferred to police lines in Sector‑26. Jai Parkash, SHO of Sector‑36, has been appointed as the new SHO of Sector‑39, while Inspector Chiranji Lal…
Pune: The Khadki police have arrested two youngsters for allegedly assaulting a 35-year-old daily wage worker and threatening an autorickshaw driver near the Khadki railway underpass at around 7pm on Sunday after the victims refused to pay monthly hafta of Rs 500 to them.Senior inspector Vikramsinh Kadam of Khadki police told TOI, “The injured worker…
