Gouranga Parida teaches the children Bhubaneswar: These 20-odd children of mostly daily-wage labourers in a village in Jagatsinghpur district were struggling academically despite being enrolled in school. With no help from parents, who themselves had little educational background, at home, they didn’t even have access to private tuitions. Poverty was not the only reason, but…
An AI-generated illustration shows a knife-wielding person. The illustration is a killing representation. Pune: The Bharati Vidyapeeth police on Tuesday morning detained four minor boys for allegedly hacking a 17-year-old, who was also in conflict with the law, to death near Katraj Lake around 10pm on Monday.The detained minors and the deceased, who are all…
13 Bangladeshi nationals detained during a special drive at construction sites in sectors 69, 70 and 104 are set to be deported later this week Gurgaon: Police have intensified crackdown on illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, verifying the identities of more than 1,200 people living in colonies, slums and labour settlements across the city. Most of them…
Ranchi: Ranchi MP Sanjay Seth and mayor Roshni Khalkho on Sunday inspected two plots, including a site opposite Pandra police station, and said a proposal would soon be sent to the govt for developing a vendor market in the area.“Out of the two plots, one is out of RMC’s jurisdiction, and the other plot is…
Chennai: Four labourers, including three women, were killed and eight others injured after a mini van carrying woodcutters crashed into a tractor loaded with cashew firewood near Panruti in Cuddalore district in the early hours of Sunday.The victims were identified as R Rani (60), R Ravi (58), K Gandhimathi (55) and S Sathya (32).Police said…
Ludhiana: Two unemployed labourers who uprooted an ATM and fled with about ₹18 lakh after sleeping inside the kiosk for days to scope out the security have been arrested, police said.Punjab police arrested Sudhanshu Mahajan, 24, and Wasim Khan, 19, in Lucknow following a multi-state manhunt. Investigators recovered ₹13.7 lakh in cash and seized two…
Hazaribag: Around 600 residents of Pachanda village in Ango panchayat of Barkagaon block are finally seeing hope of breaking decades of monsoon isolation, with construction of a bridge over the rain-fed Haharo river now underway.For years, during the rainy season the swelling river cut off the village from the outside world for nearly four months,…
Dharwad: A shortage of vitamin A syrup administered to children aged around one-and-a-half years has created difficulties for parents across Dharwad district, forcing many to make repeated visits to govt hospitals and anganwadi centres over the past several months.Under the govt’s universal immunisation programme, children are provided free vaccines and other preventive health interventions in…
Gurgaon: Sakatar Singh’s family in Punjab waited for his customary call — the one that always came around 9.30pm. On Thursday, however, the phone hadn’t rung till as late as 11pm. And then, the silence broke in the worst possible way.A colleague called from Faridabad to say a crane had crashed at the construction site…
This is an AI image used for representation Gurgaon: In a sweeping operation, around 250 police personnel — backed by two SWAT teams — raided multiple locations in Nuh last week to smash a cross-border racket believed to be behind 60% of the city’s stolen bikes.Police said the network stretched from Gurgaon into Nuh and…
