New Delhi, 13/7: Booth Level Officers (BLOs) have found a large number of people from Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar in the electoral rolls of Bihar during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise and they stand to be omitted from the final roll. Sources said their names will not be included in the final electoral…
Patna, 12/7: Union minister Chirag Paswan has received a death threat from an Instagram user, his Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) said on Saturday. The party also shared on its X handle screenshot of a complaint lodged with the cyber police station in Patna, by chief spokesman Rajesh Bhatt. In his complaint, into which the…
New Delhi, 12/7: A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court against a fresh directive issued by the Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand governments to shopkeepers along the Kanwar Yatra route to display QR codes for accessing owner details. The application filed by Prof Apoorvanand Jha contended that the direction was contrary to the Supreme…
Bhubaneswar: The State Government has suspended the Principal of FM Autonomous College and Head of the Department of Educational Studies in connection with the self-immolation bid by a college student on the campus. The Higher Education Department issued a separate notification in this regard. Principal Dillip Ghosh and HOD Samira Kumar Sahu have been placed…
Kolkata, 12/7: A woman studying at the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta was allegedly raped by a student inside a hostel of the business school, police said on Saturday. The accused has been arrested on the basis of an FIR lodged by the woman at Haridevpur Police Station, they said. The alleged incident inside the boys’…
Balasore: A student allegedly set herself ablaze in protest against misbehaviour by a lecturer of Fakir Mohan College in Balasore on Saturday. According to sources, Somashree Biswal, a second-year Integrated B.Ed student, had been protesting against the alleged misbehaviour by the Head of Department (HOD). She had been sitting in a dharna on the college…
Bhubaneswar, 12/7: In a major development, Odisha’s Leader of Opposition and former CM Naveen is set to return to Bhubaneswar today after undergoing a medical procedure for cervical arthritis in Mumbai. He is scheduled to arrive at Biju Patnaik International Airport at 12:30 PM. Having departed Bhubaneswar on June 20, this 21-day absence…
Sambalpur, 12/7: In a major development, Senior BJP leader and Sundargarh MP Jual Oram has officially announced his retirement from electoral politics, declaring that he will no longer contest in future elections. The veteran parliamentarian made the statement while addressing an employment fair in Sambalpur. Speaking at the event, Oram said he had already…
Islamabad, 12/7: Two and a half months after suspending the India-Pakistan Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in the wake of the April 22 terrorist attack near Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, New Delhi has quietly set in motion an ambitious plan — one that could change water resource management in the Union Territory and other northern…
Bengaluru, 12/7: Ride-hailing firm Uber argued in the Karnataka High Court on Friday that office goers use bike taxis as it facilitates last-mile connectivity. Senior Advocate Srinivasa Raghavan, appearing for Uber, made this submission before a division bench of acting Chief Justice V Kameshwar Rao and Justice C M Joshi. The bench adjourned the hearing…
