Kolkata: The city endured another scorcher on Friday when the maximum temperature touched 36°C. However, the Met office has predicted relief in two days. An upper air circulation over east Uttar Pradesh could finally break the warm spell and trigger thundershowers in south Bengal and Kolkata between Sunday and Tuesday. Districts across south Bengal, as…
Officers said that the gang has 25 members posing as landowners, brokers and middlemen Noida: Police have busted a land fraud racket in Jarcha and arrested three people accused of property scams worth more than Rs 3 crore on Friday. The accused allegedly used forged documents to illegally sell land parcels by impersonating the original…
Panaji: After becoming the first state in the country to implement the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, state govt has decided not to offer admissions to the fourth year of undergraduate courses in the current academic year. As a result, students enrolled now will complete their degree in three years instead of four.State govt plans…
Women police personnel will take full charge of security at the event venue and perform duties with efficiency Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s April 28 Varanasi rally will be all-women-managed, with security at the venue also handled exclusively by women police personnel.Amid renewed political focus on the stalled women’s reservation legislation in Parliament, Modi is…
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court has issued notice to Vodafone Idea promoter Kumar Mangalam Birla and the company’s office-bearer Balesh Sharma in response to a petition seeking suspension of the licence for the telecom service provider for not supplying a telephone directory and itemised bill to its subscribers.The petition was filed by Vadodara resident Vasudev…
Chamba: The recovery of two mysterious Pakistani balloons from two villages in Himachal Pradesh’s Chamba district within a week has triggered security concerns.On April 22, a white-and-blue balloon marked “PIA” and bearing an inscription in Urdu was found in bushes near Toba. A similar balloon was recovered from Chillari just a few days earlier. Chamba…
Nashik: The court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate SV Lad on Friday ordered till April 29 a custodial remand of four TCS Nashik employees, who are facing charges of sexual harassment and religious coercion in a complaint lodged by one of their male co-workers in the company. This case is among the total nine cases…
Churachandpur: Several thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from non-camp settlements protested at the Wall of Remembrance here on Friday, alleging the govt has failed to provide any cash or material assistance and demanded parity with camp-based IDPs.The protest, held under the banner of Joint IDPs Churachandpur, saw hundreds of participants carrying placards reading, ‘No…
Lucknow: Raebareli police have arrested a Class XII pass man from Uttarakhand for his alleged role in an organised ‘digital arrest’ cyber fraud racket that duped a local couple of ₹82 lakh, officials said on Friday.The accused, identified as Abhijeet Singh Jatav, a resident of Udham Singh Nagar district in Uttarakhand, was arrested on Apr…
Palanpur: A first-year nursing student allegedly ended her life by hanging in her hostel room at Merchant College of Nursing on the Mehsana–Visnagar road on Friday.The deceased, identified as Asmita Patel, was a native of Rumla village in Chikhli taluka of Navsari district. She was staying alone in her room in the college hostel.“No suicide…
