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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the Teachers’ Day programme in Kolkata, highlighted the contribution of educators, on September 5, 2025. | Photo Credit: Debasish Bhaduri KolkataChief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said the ongoing teacher recruitment crisis would be resolved soon, adding that ‘tainted’ teachers could be accommodated in alternative roles. Her remarks, made ahead of Teacher’s Day, have drawn sharp criticism from groups representing ‘untainted’ teachers. Speaking at the Shiksha Ratna programme at the Dhono Dhanyo auditorium in Kolkata, Ms. Banerjee said, “After working for so many years, many of them have been termed ‘tainted and ineligible’. I…

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Image for the purpose of representation only. | Photo Credit: Aijaz Rahi GUWAHATIThe Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) in Assam has become the first tribal council under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution to fully digitise its land records.Officials said the digitisation of more than 15 lakh land documents, including texts and maps, across the 8,970 sq. km BTR was completed a few weeks ago, ending decades of manual record-keeping. There are 10 tribal councils under the Sixth Schedule in the north-east – three each in Assam, Meghalaya, and Mizoram, and one in Tripura. Two of Assam’s councils, in Karbi Anglong-West Karbi…

Vishnuvardhan, whose 75th birth anniversary falls on Thursday, is celebrated as the “Sahasa Simha” (brave lion) of the Kannada film industry by his fans. The moniker, however, does not quite capture the wide range of roles he played.His last few movies, before his death in 2009, prove that his talent was not on the wane. However, directors with a lack of imagination wrote for him the typical kind-hearted, sacrificial-saviour type of roles.Veteran stars such as Mammootty and Mohanlal in Malayalam, Rajinikanth in Tamil, and Amitabh Bachchan in Hindi have dared to experiment in the fag end of their careers. Likewise,…

Idols of Goddess Durga being immersed in the Yamuna river during the Durga Puja festival, at Dussehra Ghat behind the Taj Mahal, in Agra, on October 2, 2025 | Photo Credit: PTI AGRA (UTTAR PRADESH) Two persons drowned and six others went missing during an idol immersion in the Utangan river in Agra district, officials said on Friday (October 3 2025)The incident occurred in Khairagarh area on Thursday (October 2, 2025) when nine people slipped into deep water during the immersion. While locals managed to rescue one person, the bodies of Gagan (26) and Ompal (32) were later recovered, they…

Bhubaneswar: A view of a pandal during the ‘Durga Puja’ festival, in Bhubaneswar. File | Photo Credit: PTI 215 heritage Durga Pujas will receive ₹ 1.10 lakh each, the ones in the second and third categories will get ₹ 75,000 and ₹ 50,000, said the Culture Minister The BJP government in Odisha announced that it will provide financial assistance to Durga Puja committees up to ₹ 1.10 lakh each.Culture Minister Suryabanshi Suraj said on Saturday (October 4, 2025) that the decision was taken to promote cultural heritage and support traditional festivities.The committees have been divided into three categories – heritage…

Image for the representational purpose only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The police have come up with stringent enforcement actions against the illegal single digit lottery business by deploying dedicated squads for flash inspections in Kozhikode district of Kerala. This move follows confidential reports from the State Lottery Department and licensed lottery agents, who raised protests against the growing number of unregulated lottery activities in the region.One such squad formed under the leadership of Thamarassery Deputy SP Chandramohan, has exposed two shops at Ambayathode. During the flash inspection, the squad managed to seize ₹23, 020 from two shops suspected of…

Karnataka, Assam, and Tamil Nadu account for 59.29% of the estimated 22,466 elephants in India, a report released by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) in Dehradun on Tuesday (October 14, 2025) has revealed.Seven north-eastern States and a part of West Bengal support 6,559 elephants, underscoring the region’s critical role as an elephant stronghold, the report titled Status of Elephants in India: DNA-based Synchronous All-India Population Estimation of Elephants, said.WII officials said the estimate for 2021 to 2025 was conducted using the DNA-based mark-recapture method – similar to that used for tiger, co-predator, and prey monitoring – for the first time…

Christians have been facing increasing opposition in the free practice of their religious customs in the Bastar region in recent times. Image for the purpose of representation only. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement In yet another episode of violence over the burial rights of Christians in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region, a mob in Kanker district vandalised a prayer hall on Thursday (December 18, 2025). Several people, including police personnel, sustained injuries in intermittent clashes over the past three days.According to eyewitnesses, tensions had been building over the past few days in Bade Teoda village in Antagarh tehsil of Kanker after the…

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