PMC employees conducting the census at Jay Bhavaninagar in Kothrud Pune: The state has completed the first phase of Census 2027 — the House Listing and Housing Census — with around 2.45 lakh personnel covering more than 2.2 lakh enumeration blocks and collecting household data through a cellphone application, state census officials said on Monday..The…
KOLKATA: A dry Monday night in Kolkata saw an unusual security sight as Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee entered former chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s residence carrying an umbrella, days after a series of egg attacks targeting senior TMC leaders triggered security concerns within the party.Private security personnel were seen standing with black umbrellas around Banerjee…
KOLKATA: Former West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee filed a plea in the Calcutta high court on Tuesday, challenging the result of the assembly election in Bhabanipur, where she suffered a surprise defeat to BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari.Banerjee lost the Bhabanipur seat by 15,105 votes, marking one of the biggest…
The latest sanction covers installation on 598km spanning 48 block sections, at an estimated cost of Rs 140 crore Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad division of the Western Railway is set to become fully equipped with Kavach 4.0 after Indian Railways approved the expansion of the indigenous train protection system across the remaining sections of the division.The…
The DEO office has scheduled a hearing on June 19 at 11am Ahmedabad: The district education officer (DEO) of Ahmedabad city has initiated action on proposals submitted by secondary and higher secondary schools seeking reduction of classes due to declining student strength and related factors. Around 12 schools have been issued official notices to remain…
CHENNAI: In another setback for AIADMK, former health minister and Viralimalai MLA C Vijayabaskar resigned from the Tamil Nadu Assembly on Tuesday.Vijayabaskar is the fifth AIADMK MLA to resign since the 2021 Assembly election. With his resignation, the party’s strength in the House has come down to 42.He submitted his resignation to assembly speaker JCD…
NEW DELHI: Delhi-NCR will get four new greenfield cities, named ‘Namo Cities’, under the Regional Plan 2041 as part of efforts to promote balanced regional growth and decentralised urban development, following a decision taken on Tuesday.The decision was taken during a meeting of the NCRPB chaired by Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Manohar Lal.Addressing…
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: India crossed another milestone in its nuclear power expansion programme on Monday with the successful installation of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) at Unit-5 of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited’s Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, one of the country’s largest atomic energy complexes.The installation of the 320-tonne reactor pressure vessel inside the…
The prison sentence handed to Vickrum Digwa, the man convicted of murdering 18-year-old student Henry Nowak, has been referred to the Court of Appeal for review under the UK’s Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme.Digwa, 23, was sentenced to life imprisonment at Southampton Crown Court on June 1 and ordered to serve a minimum term of 21…
SAO PAULO: Brazilian officials on Thursday announced a sharp drop in deforestation rates, pushing back on one of the arguments that the Trump administration used last week to justify additional tariffs on the South American country.In May, Amazon deforestation was 61.4% lower than in the same month in 2025, according to officials from the National…
