West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: The chief minister Suvendu Adhikari-led West Bengal cabinet Monday scrapped the assistance to the groups based on religious categorisation, effective ending the religion based schemes run during the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government.The BJP government has also done away with the exisiting state OBC list in accordance…
Yale’s David Geffen School of Drama removed tuition fees with a $150 million donation. This move opened doors for talented students previously excluded by financial barriers. Image Credits: Wikipedia The cultural environment is quick to assume that creativity is entirely based on merit. We all think that as long as one is gifted enough, determined,…
Suvendu Adhikari; Jahangir Khan NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Jahangir Khan on Monday moved the Calcutta high court seeking protection from any coercive action by the West Bengal Police, alleging that criminal cases were being repeatedly filed against him.The plea came two days after chief minister Suvendu Adhikari warned that he would personally handle…
A UK family donated a hand-built Lancaster cockpit after their father spent 40 years creating it. The family of a Berkshire man has donated a hand-built Lancaster bomber cockpit replica to an RAF visitor centre after he spent nearly 40 years creating it in his garden shed.Leon Ellison, a retired electronics engineer from Binfield, started…
NEW DELHI: The West Bengal cabinet led by chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday decided to discontinue government assistance to groups based on religious categorisation from June, while also approving a new monthly financial assistance scheme for women and free bus travel in state-run buses.This development comes after CM Adhikari held a ‘Janata Darbar’ at…
Fake police scam targets UK pensioners as TSB warns of rising fraud cases / Image: @BBC A growing scam involving criminals posing as police officers and bank investigators is leaving elderly Britons thousands of pounds out of pocket, prompting fresh warnings from banks, fraud experts and UK authorities.High street lender TSB has issued an urgent…
File photo: AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami (left) and S Semmalai NEW DELHI: Senior All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) leader S Semmalai on Monday resigned from the party, citing dissatisfaction over recent developments within the party and expressing concern over its current state.In his resignation letter addressed to AIADMK general secretary Edappadi…
A quiet moment inside a digital archive search has led to something that experts are calling a major literary breakthrough. Researchers studying a medieval manuscript in Rome reportedly stumbled upon what appears to be the oldest surviving English poem. The discovery was not made during an excavation or field study, but through digitised pages viewed…
Jobs, AI, trade & more: Key outcomes of PM Modi’s Sweden visit (Image source: AP) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday concluded his participation at the European Round Table for Industry in Gothenburg, wrapping up a key leg of his five-nation tour that earlier included high-level visits to the United Arab Emirates and the Netherlands.The…
Across Japan, something unusual is happening in plain sight. Entire neighbourhoods have houses that still stand, but nobody lives inside them anymore. Windows stay closed for years. Gardens grow wild, and paint fades slowly in the weather and over time. Reportedly, Japan has around 9 million vacant homes, a figure that keeps increasing. It feels…