Chatra: Gidhaur police arrested three drug peddlers with 25.67 grams of suspected brown sugar worth Rs 5 lakh and sent them to judicial custody.An expensive mobile phone and a motorcycle were seized. Acting on SP Animesh Naithany’s tip-off, a team, led by Simaria SDPO Nagargoje Shubham Bhausaheb, checked vehicles near Piratand on Peksa-Gidhaur road towards…
Bhubaneswar: The special task Force of crime branch on Saturday nabbed a kingpin in the interstate ganja smuggling racket, Ratan Mandal, from Purba Medinipur in West Bengal.STF sleuths said Mandal was a major receiver of ganja sourced from the Kandhamal–Boudh–Subarnapur (Sonepur) axis and is believed to have been involved in multiple interstate narcotics transactions.“After an…
Prayagraj: The UP Board has been entrusted with the responsibility of developing a State Curriculum Framework (SCF) to implement the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2023 across secondary education in the state, marking a major step towards transforming classroom teaching and learning for more than one crore students studying in Classes 9 to 12.The new curriculum…
Prayagraj: Students and parents seeking admission to secondary schools in Uttar Pradesh can now make informed choices by accessing comprehensive details of all govt-aided and unaided institutions affiliated with the UP Board through the newly developed ‘Pehchaan’ portal. The initiative, aimed at bringing greater transparency and accountability into the school education system, provides detailed profiles…
Bhubaneswar: State govt on Friday signed MoUs with 7 companies to set up industries across 6 sectors, including steel, metal downstream, textiles, power, green energy equipment and chemicals, in Odisha. The projects worth Rs 24,823 crore are expected to create employment for around 29,500 people.According to the MoUs, Shyam Metallics will invest Rs 20,000 crore…
The Textbook Production and Marketnig office in Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar: Amid controversy over the errors in the newly introduced textbooks for classes I to VIII in govt schools, Directorate of Textbook Production and Marketing (TBP&M) has clarified that a portion of the printing work for the 2026-27 academic year was entrusted to private presses due to…
Varanasi: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW), Varanasi, on Friday arrested two ration dealers involved in a food grain scam that took place in 2004–05 in Jaunpur district.The arrested dealers were identified as Mohammad Ahmad and Lalbahadur Maurya. They were produced before the corruption court in Varanasi, from where they were sent to jail.According to EOW…
Ranchi: Police on Friday arrested a drug peddler and recovered around 32 grams of brown sugar during a raid in city’s Chutia area.A team led by the Kotwali additional superintendent of police conducted a raid in the area and arrested the peddler identified as Sunil Nayak (28) of Ramgarh district. During the operation, Nayak was…
