KOLKATA: Calcutta high court asked CBI on Friday to take over the probe into corruption charges against RG Kar Medical College‘s ex-principal Sandip Ghosh from an SIT constituted by the Bengal govt, saying it makes sense to have one agency look into all allegations against him.Allegations of financial and administrative impropriety have been piling up…
LUCKNOW: UP‘s police constable recruitment exam, billed the largest ever job test in the state’s history with 48 lakh aspirants vying for 60,244 posts, kicked off Friday without any big troubles. This is a re-exam following the cancellation of the previous test in Feb 2024 after a leak. Four more rounds of the test are…
NEW DELHI: Coming to the rescue of students stranded due to a dispute over CUET admissions between Delhi University and St Stephen’s College, Delhi High Court on Friday granted provisional admission to six candidates in the college.The court noted that there was no fault of the six students who had successfully cleared the Common University…
KOLKATA: CBI’s remand note to a trial court Friday seeking judicial custody of police volunteer Sanjay Roy, the lone suspect to be arrested in the RG Kar hospital rape-murder case, makes no mention of “gang rape” or the possible involvement of more than one person in the Aug 9 crime.The parents of the victim, a…
NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate has started probing the al-Qaida link in Jharkhand’s land scam case in which CM Hemant Soren was arrested earlier and is one of the accused in its money laundering case. ED has summoned Babloo Khan, who runs a hospital in Ranchi, on Monday after it was found that an al-Qaida cell…
NEW DELHI: Tragedy struck on Friday when a 15-year-old boy lost his life on a waterlogged road in central Delhi’s Chanakyapuri. The incident occurred following heavy rain in various parts of the city. The exact reason behind the death is unclear, as police said the boy had drowned while civic officials claimed that he was…
NEW DELHI: Space minister Jitendra Singh, who released a report on the socio-economic impacts on Indian space programmes and data on Chandrayaan-3 on National Space Day, said on Friday that India not only became the first to reach Mars in one go and first to land on the Moon’s south pole but “will also become…
NEW DELHI: Your vehicle, despite passing PUC tests, is likely emitting more pollutants than the emission standard while running on the road, reveals a new study.Vehicles, including those under the latest BS VI norms, emit much more in real-world operations as compared to type-approval (laboratory) limits, says a new study by International Council on Clean…
NEW DELHI: In a first, the Supreme Court on Friday gave a retrospective application to Section 479 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) that mandates the release of undertrial first-time offenders lodged in prisons if they have served one-third of the maximum punishment prescribed for the offence allegedly committed by them. Though BNSS, along with…
JAMMU: To facilitate voting by Kashmiri migrants in the upcoming J&K assembly elections 2024, Election Commission of India (ECI) has set up 24 special polling stations — 19 in Jammu, one in Udhampur and four in New Delhi.Akin to the recent Lok Sabha elections, ECI has also decided to do away with the cumbersome procedure…
