Is Jharkhand the cyber-crime capital of India? According to an article in a leading business magazine, this is probably true! Jamtara district in Jharkhand is one of India’s biggest organised cyber crime hubs, with one police station alone accounting for over 50% of ATM, and debit/credit card frauds. Jamtara is one of the biggest centres […]
KATHMANDU: Indian President Pranab Mukherjee has described Kathmandu as a spiritual centre for the people of South Asian region. (November 3) “Kathmandu is not only the political capital of Nepal, but also a spiritual centre for the people in our region,” the Indian president said addressing a civic reception organized in his honour by the […]
Officials say they have discovered one of India’s largest-ever drug hauls concealed in a secret room inside a fizzy drinks factory. More than 20 million tablets of the banned drug Mandrax, with an estimated street value of Rs 31,500 million, were seized in the western city of Udaipur in October. Subhas Dudhani, a Bollywood producer, […]
The Bengal government on Wednesday (November 2) converted a sectional holiday, Chhat puja on November 7, into a general holiday. The additional holiday on Monday allows state government employees to enjoy a long weekend like they did last week on the occasion of Kali Puja, Diwali and Bhai Phonta. All government offices will remain closed […]
The killing of eight prisoners belonging to an outlawed group hours after their escape from the high-security Central Prison in Bhopal during the festive season has set off a chain reaction of fireworks that is unlikely to die down soon. The eight under-trials, belonging to the Students’ Islamic Movement of India, had been charged with […]
GUWAHATI: – A former college lecturer who helped create over 15,000 jobs across the north-east by training youths to become entrepreneurs has won an award from the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. Neichute Doulo, a former lecturer in Economics at Baptist College in Nagaland, won the ‘Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2016’ given by […]
Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination anniversary programme will not be held at Shakti Sthal this year as it is closed in view of bird flu scare, the Congress said in a statement. Indira Gandhi’s death anniversary is observed on October 31, 2016. “Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s martyrdom day programme on October 31 will […]
Beware of quacks posing as ‘doctors’! A self-styled doctor and three of his patients died in a south Indian village after drinking a poisonous herbal medicine which he claimed cured diabetes and hypertension, officials said on Tuesday (Oct 25). Another patient is in a critical condition at a government-run hospital after they drank the concoction […]
India’s booming population and tourism industry, and the ongoing drought, are escalating contact and conflict between people and wildlife. Every year hundreds have their crops destroyed or farm animals killed – and, in some cases, are killed or injured themselves – by tigers, elephants, sloth bears and wild boars, as villages grow and spill over […]
NEW DELHI – New Delhi zoo has temporarily closed after two birds died of bird flu, its curator said Wednesday (Oct 19), a month after India declared itself free of the disease. Riaz Khan zoo spokesperson said tests had confirmed the birds died of the H5 strain of avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu. […]
GUWAHATI: It’s official. Arunachal has an NDA government. BJP on Friday added Arunachal Pradesh as the 14th state in its kitty by joining the People’s Party of Arunachal (PPA) government after having extended outside support for a month. This is the second time in 13 years that BJP has been in power in the frontier […]
New Delhi: Two men allegedly forced their way into a church in outer Delhi’s Begampur and threatened the priest and worshippers during the mass last Sunday. Police have now arrested them. Some time ago, the church was under police protection after it was vandalised by miscreants. The cover was lifted after the authorities decided that […]
