Gouripur Jame Masjid, locally known as the Bankra Mosque, at the Kolkata airport Kolkata: Three days after devotees were barred without notice from entering the Gouripur Jame Masjid, locally known as the Bankra Mosque, at the airport, community elders said they will avoid confrontation and instead pursue legal recourse to restore access to the 136-year-old…
NEW DELHI: Truecaller on Wednesday said users are blocking four lakh calls originating from 140-series and over 1.2 lakh calls from 1,600-series numbers everyday as it lobbied against whitelisting (verified number system).Since Oct, users have recorded 7.4 crore blocking actions on the two number series, while nearly four out of five calls from them are…
Sonam Wangchuk is requesting to be discharged from the hospital to continue his protest at Jantar Mantar NEW DELHI: Activist Sonam Wangchuk is trying to exercise his right to seek discharge from Safdarjung Hospital and return to Jantar Mantar to continue his agitation, activist Saurav Das said on Saturday.Members of Sonam Wangchuk’s team said, asserting…
Gaurav Gupta & Sanjeev DevasiaMumbai: The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) has sought permission to undertake development and maintenance of the Shivaji Park ground in Dadar. According to a letter written by the MCA to the municipal commissioner, Shivaji Park ground has been a prestigious and integral part of Mumbai’s cricketing world for decades and has…
CHENNAI: In Gummidipoondi and Madhavaram, nearly 40km apart, two families spent Sunday waiting for loved ones who would never walk through the door again. Babu Kuppusamy, 52, and Santhosh Kumar, 47, were among the 15 Indian tourists killed in the speedboat accident near Vietnam’s Phu Quoc Island. Their bodies are yet to be brought back.A…
Mumbai: The state cabinet approved the setting up of two private health science universities, Lata Mangeshkar University (earlier NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences) and Dr Balasaheb Vikhe Patil University (Dr Vithalrao Vikhe Patil Foundation’s Medical College) in Ahilyanagar.Admissions to these two universities will be done through the state’s CET cell. However, details on the…
Pune: An NCP (SP) delegation, led by its state president Shashikant Shinde, will meet Maharashtra Chief Electoral Officer on Monday to demand an extension to the SIR exercise and raise concerns over the large number of uncollected enumeration forms, including those under the absent-shifted-dead-duplicate or others (ASDDO) category and the door-to-door verification drive, MLA Rohit…
Incarcerated individuals gain valuable practical skills through vocational courses, setting the stage for future job prospects (AI-generated image) MUMBAI: Bacchu Khan (name changed), a former Arthur Road jail inmate who dreams of a Dubai job after undergoing a wall-painting course during his time in prison, said he took up the course as “it seemed something…
BSEB Simultala Class 6 Admission 2026: Applications open for 120 seats, check eligibility and fee Simultala Class 6th admissions: The Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) has opened the admission process for Class 6 at Simultala Awasiya Vidyalaya, Simultala, Jamui, for the academic session 2027-28. The board has issued an official admission notice and invited eligible…
British PM Andy Burnham formally opened his newly created northern office LONDON: British PM Andy Burnham formally opened his newly created northern office on Friday, promising “a different way of running Britain” as he bids to reverse decades of centralising power over England in London.Unveiling No 10 North in the northwestern city of Manchester, Burnham…
