After marching from Sealdah to Esplanade, the protesters clashed with the cops at the Dorina Crossing when they tried to stage a sit-in demonstration. pic by Subhojyoti Kanjilal Kolkata: The Kolkata leg of the nationwide students’ protests on Friday lasted 1.5 hours and covered a 3-odd-km stretch, bringing the city centre to a grinding halt…
Noida: Police arrested three members of an interstate vehicle theft gang on Pusa Road Friday and recovered 10 two-wheelers, a .315-bore pistol and a live cartridge.The three accused — Vikas Kumar, Rohit and Kuldeep — allegedly operated in an organised manner across Delhi-NCR. Additional DCP (Noida) Manisha Singh said, “They first surveyed malls, hospitals, metro…
Flooding at Bodakdev in Ahmedabad Ahmedabad: At a time when occupancy was already high due to business events, hotels across the city ran out of rooms on the night of July 23 as torrential rain and widespread waterlogging stranded travellers, disrupted transport and even pushed locals to seek overnight accommodation.The city was hosting an investment…
Rows of newly planted saplings at the Dadumajra dumping site, where the MC is developing an eight-acre green buffer with 10,000-12,000 trees and shrubs to improve air quality, reduce pollution and shield nearby areas from the legacy waste site Chandigarh: The municipal corporation, Chandigarh, has decided to deploy round-the-clock security guards and around 10 dedicated…
The education department’s focus is to bring students back to schools Pune: A digital attendance system has been introduced in civic schools to tackle student absenteeism, starting with one on Sinhagad Road on a pilot basis.The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) officials said that under the new system, students’ attendance would be recorded online, with parents…
Dibrugarh: Floods destroyed academic records and disrupted the admission process, prompting Dibrugarh University to announce relief measures for affected students.Vice-chancellor Jiten Hazarika said in a notification on Friday that students unable to travel to the university may complete admission formalities online. The measure covers remaining programmes for which admissions are still conducted offline, including the…
Lucknow: Hardoi police solved the murder of a 22-year-old man whose body was found on the roadside in the district earlier this week and claimed that the victim was strangled by his girlfriend’s father after he entered her house late in the night to meet her.The man left his home on Tuesday night after telling…
File photo of JDA building Jaipur: Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) commissioner Siddharth Mahajan Friday issued a stern warning to recently transferred officials, saying corruption complaints would invite direct action by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). The meeting was attended by tehsildars and officials from the forest and legal depts.Mahajan reiterated JDA’s zero-tolerance policy on corruption and…
NEW DELHI: Government is keeping its fingers crossed after its successful attempt to persuade activist Sonam Wangchuk – whose wide recognition helped expand the reach of Cockroach Janta Party’s protest into uncomfortable territory for BJP – to break his hunger strike.CJP’s assertion, though, to continue and even escalate the agitation if its demand for education…
US President Donald Trump attends the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner US President Donald Trump on Friday attended the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner, nearly three months after the annual event was postponed following a shooting outside the original venue.The US president is set to address journalists from major news organisations after months…
