KOLKATA: Election Commission on Sunday approved a proposal by Bengal chief electoral officer Manoj Agarwal to accept tea garden and cinchona plantation records as documents for SIR of electoral rolls for north Bengal districts of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar, Alipurduar, North Dinajpur, and South Dinajpur, reports Sarthak G. Tea garden workers do not have…
KOLKATA: “Once in a blue moon” visits do not amount to a shared conjugal life, Calcutta high court said on Jan 8 while granting divorce to a couple living apart since 2015, ruling that a marriage stripped of empathy cannot be sustained. The court dissolved the marriage but allowed the father monthly access to his…
CHENNAI: A 14-year-old girl was gang-raped by four minors, including her boyfriend, in Puducherry, police said. Police detained all four suspects, who are school dropouts and all aged around 17 years. Police said the survivor, studying in Class 9, went to meet her boyfriend in Bahour Friday. But she did not return home even after…
BHOPAL: A local court in Bhopal dismissed a civil suit challenging ownership of a 16.62-acre parcel of prime land once linked to the erstwhile Bhopal royal family, ruling in favour of actor Saif Ali Khan, Sharmila Tagore, Soha Ali Khan and other legal heirs of the royal family, who were respondents in the case. The…
DARJEELING: Prashant Tamang (43), a singer from Darjeeling, died of cardiac arrest at his Delhi home on Sunday. Prashant felt unwell around 6am. His family took him to a hospital, where doctors declared him dead. He had been living in Delhi’s Janakpuri with his wife Geeta Thapa and their three-year-old daughter, Ariah Tamang. Following his…
CHENNAI: Dravida Munnetra Kazagham (DMK) leader TKS Elangovan blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the delay in censor certification of actor-turned-politician Vijay’s ‘Jana Nayagan’, accusing them of pressurising the censor board.He said that Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief Vijay has moved to the Madras High Court over the issue, adding that the censorship process…
NEW DELHI: National security adviser Ajit Doval, widely referred to as India’s ‘spymaster or James Bond’, has revealed that he does not use a mobile-phone or internet in his day-to-day work. When asked if he used mobile or internet for routine work, the NSA replied, “It is true that I do not use internet. I…
DEHRADUN: Winter fog has long been a disruptive force in northern India, grounding flights, delaying trains and bringing daily life to a crawl across the Indo-Gangetic plain. Now, new research published in Science Advances journal reveals that air pollution is not just accompanying these fog events – it is actively making them thicker, longer-lasting and…
RAIPUR: The headmistress of a govt school in Chhattisgarh has been suspended while a contractual assistant teacher faces dismissal after a Class 4 English exam paper listed ‘Ram’ as a possible answer to a multiple-choice question about the name of a protagonist’s dog, reports Partha Behera. The paper-setter said the error occurred as a result…
NEW DELHI: A week after the Centre warned of legal consequences, microblogging platform X has acknowledged lapses in content moderation linked to its AI chatbot Grok, taking down about 3,500 pieces of content and deleting over 600 accounts, govt sources said on Sunday. The platform has assured authorities that it will comply with Indian laws…