Air quality monitoring stations at Rajdhani Vatika Patna: Patna improved its ranking in the Swachh Vayu Survekshan 2026, securing the 16th position among 48 cities with populations of over 10 lakh, up from 27th rank last year.The rankings, announced by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) under the Union environment ministry on Monday, showed Patna…
Varanasi: To familiarise students, research scholars, faculty members and staff with new books on Hindi literature, knowledge systems and science, a special exhibition of Hindi books was organised at the Srinivas Deshpande Library of IIT-BHU as part of Hindi Month celebrations being held under the guidelines of the Ministry of Education, Govt of India.Deputy librarian…
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Blackstone Inc is among global investment firms in the fray to buy a stake in IIFL Finance, just as Fairfax Financial Holdings looks to exit from the company, according to people familiar with the matter.Fairfax, founded by Indian-born Canadian billionaire Prem Watsa, is weighing selling its entire holding in IIFL Finance to comply with regulatory…
Pune: Impersonating ECI officials, cybercrooks siphoned off Rs3.9 lakh from an 86-year-old man’s bank account from Pashan on Aug 8.The elderly man was an engineer with a private company. He lodged a complaint with Baner police on Sunday.According to police, the cybercrooks sent him a message titled “ECI-SIR”. The complainant unsuspectingly opened and saw a…
Panaji: Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday said there are no longer any disputes among western region states, including water disputes — calling it a major achievement. He added that all the issues taken up in the day’s meeting were related to monitoring, and that several interstate river disputes have also been resolved through…
India was among the 164 countries that voted in favour of UN General Assembly’s Sept 4 resolution, “Correct the Map: Rebalancing Global Cartographic Representation and Promoting Equitable Representation of the World’s Regions, Particularly Africa”.MEA said the resolution’s purpose is to encourage the use of equal-area map projections that preserve the relative sizes of continental landmasses,…
Patna: The opening of all 109 gates of the Farakka barrage in West Bengal to discharge floodwaters is expected to bring some relief to flood-hit areas of eastern Bihar. Chief minister Samrat Choudhary also said on Monday that the flood situation could ease over the next two to three days as the Ganga recorded a…
Varanasi: Ahead of the Pitripaksha commencing on Sept 26, the East Central Railway’s Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyay division has started preparation to ensure hassle-free movement, ticketing, reservation and crowd management.ECR’s divisional railway manager (PDDU) Uday Singh Meena said that in view of the last year’s experience of handling 15 to 20 lakh passengers, ECR stepped…
