Kolkata: Writing to-the-point answers and becoming accustomed to application-based, critical-thinking questions reflected in ICSE results, highlighted several school heads after CISCE declared its class 10 boards results on Thursday. This year, the pass percentage stood at 99.18, a 0.04% rise from last year’s. In Bengal, 44,410 students took the exam, out of whom 43,897 passed….
Residents of Prateek Wisteria in Sector 77 check the society’s fire equipment on Thursday Noida: A day after a highrise fire in neighbouring Ghaziabad exposed the vulnerability of firefighting equipment in NCR, residents of 7x sectors — among the dozens of densely packed residential areas in the city that have risen, floor by floor, over…
Panaji: A new study has found that the shipping industry is the biggest contributor to lead pollution in Goa’s air, raising concerns about environmental and public health. Researchers from the School of Environmental Studies, Jadavpur University, report that oil used by ships accounts for 32–34% of airborne lead in the state, making it the single…
Varanasi: A labourer died after falling from the sixth floor during construction work at the G-12 building located in the Police Line on Thursday. According to reports, the labourer, Mohammad Iftikhar (22), a resident of Araria in Bihar, lost balance while loading sand and fell from the sixth floor.He was taken to the DDU Hospital,…
Ahmedabad: The Great Indian Bustard (GIB) chick hatched in Gujarat’s Naliya grasslands on March 26, 2026, only to go missing since April 19 is now feared dead. The forest department issued a statement on Thursday expressing the likelihood of the chick being predated by carnivores.The birth of the chick, locally known as Ghorad, had been…
Amritsar: An Ajnala court on Friday ordered the trial against jailed Khadoor Sahib Lok Sabha MP Amritpal Singh in connection with 2023 police station attack case be transferred to the Amritsar sessions court. The next hearing will take place on May 2, marking the formal start of the trial.The order came after the police presented…
Pune: A 25-year-old paan stall owner from Talawade had a narrow escape on Tuesday night, when two men poured petrol on him and tried to set him on fire after he refused to give them a cigarette for free.The Chikhali police have arrested Sachin Punase, 25, of Chakan and Bhushan Suradkar, 25, of Nighoje in…
Shillong: Meghalaya will roll out self-enumeration for Census 2027 from Friday as part of India’s first fully digital census to be conducted through mobile applications and the Census Management and Monitoring System portal.Director of census operations, Meghalaya, Biswajit Pegu said residents can opt to self-enumerate via an online portal between May 1 and May 15.“This…
Samajwadi Party leaders stage a protest, accusing the BJP of misleading the people on the issue of women’s reservation, during the special one-day session of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, in Lucknow, Thursday Speaking on the floor of the UP Assembly, senior MLA Kamal Akhtar said the BJP was misguiding the people in the name of…
Alwar: A gas cylinder explosion inside a house in Billu Colony, Sathalka village in Khairthal district’s Bhiwadi left seven members of a family seriously burned Thursday morning, police said.A preliminary probe indicated gas leakage as the likely cause.The injured were identified as Ram Singh (35), Mamta (30), Bhuvesh (12), Pankaj (8), Chhagan (6), Kajal (15)…
