Month: April 2025

[ad_1] KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said on Monday that she was willing to risk jail to throw a lifeline to all "eligible" teaching and non-teaching employees of state-run schools whose jobs were on the line after Supreme Court's verdict last week on the SSC recruitment scam.She pledged to regularise these jobs within two months, assuring the affected employees at a meeting that she had a "Plan A" and "Plan B" ready, just in case."Let SC clarify and give us the list of eligible and ineligible candidates. No one has the right to dismantle the education system. Who'll run these schools? My request is, do not take away jobs if you can't provide them. The education dept will do what is necessary," she said.Can arrange for jobs in other depts: Mamata I know I can be jailed for saying this, […]

[ad_1] After Rahul Gandhi's visit, Congress workers chase man away from Patna office NEW DELHI: Chaos erupted at Sadaqat Ashram, the Bihar Congress office in Patna, following Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi's visit for a party function. Party workers drove away an individual, calling him thief and 'BJP agent.'The incident occurred on Monday at Sadaqat Ashram, where Rahul had stopped as part of his day-long tour that included a march in Begusarai and a symposium in Patna. While Rahul's visit to the venue lasted approximately 30 minutes, a video clip emerged of Congress workers chasing a man out of the office premises.After Rahul left, journalists noticed a young man carrying a pamphlet expressing support for the wakf bill. The man identified himself as "Ram Babu Yadav, a native of Bhojpur district.""He is a BJP agent, who has been […]

[ad_1] JAMMU/SRINAGAR: Govt is deploying an electronic surveillance system and using other technological initiatives to safeguard the country’s borders, Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday said while addressing troops at a Border Security Force (BSF) outpost in Jammu’s Kathua district.Over 26 technological initiatives, including tunnel identification and anti-drone system, are currently being tested, he revealed, adding that two models of electronic surveillance systems have already been developed for deployment on the border. “After their installation across the entire border, soldiers will find it much easier to receive information and respond immediately to any actions by the enemy using technology,” Shah said.Technology will also be used to identify and dismantle underground cross-border tunnels along the International Border, which terrorists are using to infiltrate into the Indian territory, he further said.In a few years, security forces deployed along the entire India-Pakistan […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Grazing goats on a sizzling summer day of 2009, a thirsty 10-year-old Dalit girl Shanti (name changed) rushed to a tubewell to quench her thirst. That was the last anyone saw her alive. Later, a tubewell operator was accused of raping & murdering her. Her father found her body from a haystack and lodged a police complaint on May 27, 2009.The trial court convicted the accused for rape and murder in Dec 2012 and awarded death sentence. Allahabad HC scrutinised evidence afresh and in 2022, upheld the conviction but reduced the punishment to imprisonment for rest of his life. On appeal, an SC bench of Justices A S Oka, Ahsanuddin Amanullah and A G Masih on Dec 2, 2024, acquitted the man, saying he was not given proper legal assistance during trial, which prejudiced his right to […]