CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin has written to Amit Shah, opposing the non-inclusion of Tamil in the computer test for recruitment to the CRPF, saying the notification mandating only the use of English and Hindi was ‘discriminatory’ and ‘unilateral’. According to a state government release on Sunday, of the 9,212 vacancies in the CRPF, 579 had to be filled from Tamil Nadu, the exam for which...
PALGHAR: Two godowns were gutted in a fire in Vasai in Maharashtra's Palghar district in the early hours of Sunday, a civic official said.No one was injured in the blaze, which broke out at Mourya Naka in Sativali at 1:30am and was doused at 5:30am, the Vasai Virar Municipal Fire Brigade official said. A probe into the cause of the fire is underway, he added.(With PTI inputs)!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t,...
KOLKATA: Members of the NGO--Fact Finding Committee on Human Rights Violations were stopped by the police on Sunday morning before they entered Howrah to speak to the victims. Six of the team members were supposed to meet the victims at Howrah where clashes over Ram Navami procession left many injured.The team was stopped near the Second Hooghly bridge on Sunday morning as cops requested them not to...
TRICHY: K N Nehru, the minister for municipal administration, urban and water supply on Sunday inspected the site identified for the Tidel Park proposed for Trichy at Rs 600 crores in Panjapur on Trichy-Madurai national highway. Stating that Trichy Corporation would earmark 10 acres of ready-to-use land for the proposal, the minister said Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) board was told to...
NEW DELHI: A 25-year-old MBA student, Ebabuddin, hailing from Bihar died allegedly by suicide at his rented accommodation in southeast Delhi's Gafoor Nagar area, police said on Sunday. Ebaduddin, a native of Sultanganj in Patna, allegedly hanged himself from the ceiling of his flat, the police said, adding his family has been informed. The incident came to light on Saturday when neighbours called the...
MUMBAI: A senior citizen from Girgaon in south Mumbai has been booked for indulging in animal cruelty. The accused, Chandrakant Ketkar (72), used to hit cats at his locality in Khadilkar Road with a stick embedded with sharp nails, thereby wounding the local area cats.Animal activist Sneha Visaria of Just Smile Charitable Trust told TOI: "We had got specific information that an old man armed with sharp...
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When Dr Aditi Paul, a researcher and author who works at the intersection of technology, psychology and human communication, decided to move to Michigan from Kolkata for a PhD, she was not thinking about the big picture of her career path but was focused on the immediate next step – getting an F-1 student visa. And after she joined the programme, it was about the step after that. “When I graduated,...
BEIJING: Chinese fighter jets and warships simulated strikes on Taiwan Sunday as they encircled the island during a second straight day of military drills that were launched in response to its president meeting the US House speaker.The exercises sparked condemnation from Taipei and calls for restraint from Washington, which said it was "monitoring Beijing's actions closely".Dubbed "Joint Sword", the...
BHIWANDI: A fire broke out on the 9th floor of a multi-storey building here on Saturday, officials said. No casualties were reported. Twenty-two residents were rescued by firefighters. A fire official said it was reported at 2.25pm in an electric wire duct in the 12-storeyed Aryan City Building at Temghar Pada. The residents on an upper floor were trapped due to heavy smoke. Seeing the smoke spread,...
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