Kolkatta, 19/7: At least nine people, including a four-year-old child, were killed and six injured in an early Wednesday fire at a dingy five-storey building housing hotels on Mirza Galib Street in central Kolkata. Five fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the blaze that erupted around 1:45 am. Police and Disaster Management Department…
New Delhi, 18/8: After multiple exam paper leaks and other irregularities, the Centre on Tuesday announced a major overhaul of the examination systems at the National Testing Agency (NTA). The changes include a four-tier paper-checking process, removal of 600 experts along with onboarding of new ones and CISF-secured offices.
Bhopal, 18/8: A series of text messages sent by former model and actor Twisha Sharma, including a chilling note to her sister-in-law that her husband had crossed “all limits” and made her feel suffocated, form the backbone of the CBI’s chargesheet in her death probe, officials said. Some of the forensic reports are still awaited,…
New Delhi, 18/8: The controversial PM-CARES fund collected Rs 1,162.92 crore as donation from within and outside the country in 2023-24 and 2024-25 but spent just Rs 16.47 crore during this period, according to audit reports. In 2024-25, the fund collected Rs 479.97 crore as donations while it spent just Rs 87.85 lakh on children…
New Delhi, 18/8: The BJP on Monday announced a fresh social media team, headed by Deepak Mhaskey and dropping Amit Malviya in a massive organisational reshuffle. However, hours after the announcement, the X handles of the five leaders have either been deactivated.made private or the posts have been deleted, giving rise to curious questions.While, the…
Washington DC, 18/8: US President Donald Trump has cited India’s election system to renew his push for American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act. Trump, recalling India’s Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar asking the US administration how elections in America can be held without a valid photo identification card, highlighted the need for mandatory photo IDs…
New Delhi, 18/8: The Forward Seamen’s Union of India (FSUI) has issued an SOS alert regarding the Marshall Islands-flagged vessel AM Pioneer with 16 Indian crew members, alleging that the shipowners are pressuring the captain and crew to transit the highly volatile Strait of Harmouz. In a post on X, the maritime union said the…
Ranchi, 18/7: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Monday announced that the government had decided to cancel the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission-Combined Graduate Level examination (JSSC-CGL) examinations, as well as everything associated with Technocratic Dynamos Pvt. Ltd. (TDPL), including the examinations conducted, the results published, the candidates selected or who participated, and all other activities…
New York, 17/8: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is getting rave reviews for his multilingual proficiencies after he released videos of himself speaking in Bangla, Mandarin and Spanish, apart from English, about an initiative to give free theatre tickets to city high schoolers. In the videos posted on X, Mamdani speaks in Bangla, Mandarin…
Bengaluru, 17/8: The proceedings in the Karnataka Assembly were disrupted on Monday as the NDA insisted on the resignation of scam-accused Planning, Programme Monitoring & Statistics Minister B Nagendra. BJP-JD(S) MLAs led by Leader of the Opposition R Ashoka protested Nagendra’s re-induction into the Cabinet (he had resigned after allegations of embezzlement of Rs 187…
