UDAIPUR: Protests and communal tension erupted Friday in Udaipur following the stabbing of a schoolboy by another from a different religion, shutting down markets amid stone-pelting, vehicle torchings and a mall rampage.A Class 10 student of Government Higher Secondary School Bhattyani Chauhatta in Girwa area stabbed his classmate with a knife over an old enmity…
RUDRAPUR: Amid the nationwide anger on the rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata, the brutal rape and murder of a 33-year-old nurse has ignited widespread outrage in Uttarakhand‘s Udham Singh Nagar. The victim was a single mother and worked at a private hospital in Rudrapur. On Friday, members of Women’s Congress staged a…
LUCKNOW: The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad high court has annulled the merit list for the recruitment of 69,000 assistant teachers in Uttar Pradesh. The division bench ordered the state government to prepare a new merit list within three months, by following section 3(6) of the Reservation Rules 1994 and Basic Education Rules 1981.The court…
Once they were considered back offices catering to Fortune 500 companies. But that was then. Global Capability Centres (GCCs) have since emerged from the shadows, expanding their sphere of influence within the Indian tech landscape. They have evolved into tech powerhouses, seamlessly integrating with their parent enterprises and becoming strategic assets providing access to digital…
NEW DELHI: The announcement of assembly elections in J&K came amid a recent surge in terror activity, particularly in Jammu region. But with MHA backing the deployment of a large number of security forces, EC, recognising the enthusiasm among J&K voters to be agents of change by choosing the ballot over bullets and boycotts, has…
NEW DELHI: The announcement of elections in J&K is unlikely to have any impact on India-Pakistan ties which remain in a deep freeze since India revoked the special status of the erstwhile state, or even well before that.With the Supreme Court having upheld the repeal of the special status, India believes the question about whether…
NEW DELHI: Hours after announcement of the election schedule for J&K, Congress appointed Tariq Hameed Karra at the new state president in place of Vikas Rasool Wani. The party also named Tara Chand and Raman Bhalla as working presidents of J&K Congress.Sources said leaders from the state had recently demanded that a senior person should…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission, while announcing polls in J&K and Haryana, said it is keeping Maharashtra for later as the state is still dealing with heavy rain and has a long festive season and streak of religious events ahead. Besides, the EC added, the high requirement of forces in J&K did not leave scope…
KOLKATA: I might have lost my daughter, but gained millions, the father of the RG Kar Medical College rape-murder victim told reporters on Friday, moved by the ‘Reclaim the Night’ protest across the world. At the same time, he urged all to refrain from naming her, sharing “ugly photographs of my daughter” (referring to photos…
On the night of August 14, we planned that a group of female doctors and students from the hospital would march till Shyambazar to join the “reclaim the night” procession. They were about to leave, when a large mob gathered outside the hospital. Police failed to stop them and, soon, most of them – all…
