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SILCHAR: A protest against the Waqf Act turned violent in Silchar of Assam’s Cachar district Sunday after demonstrators hurled stones at police, which resorted to a cane charge to restore law and order.Muslims from Berenga, Madhurband, and Kanakpur gathered at Badri Bridge in the morning to take out a protest rally to Madhurband. When the…

NEW DELHI: A bitter school rivalry culminated in tragedy in southeast Delhi’s Govindpuri area when a 17-year-old boy was fatally stabbed by three 16-year-old boys, police said. The accused teenagers alleged that the victim subjected them to repeated physical assault and issued ominous threats against them and their families.The long-simmering feud reached a threshold when…

DHULIAN: Cries of “We need protection” punctuated the uneasy calm that descended Sunday on mixed-population neighbourhoods lining a 7km stretch of Bengal’s Murshidabad that bore the brunt of clashes over the new Waqf law since Friday night. As fear hung in the air, hundreds – mostly women and children – crossed the Ganga by boat…

NEW DELHI: The proposal to build two tunnels — Singhpora-Vailoo and Sudhmahadev-Dranga — on the Anantnag-Chenani corridor in J&K has hit hurdles, with the expenditure secretary-headed Public Investment Board (PIB) recently turning down recommendation for their construction, citing multiple reasons, including cost. Earlier, the bid for the Singhpora-Vailoo tunnel was scrapped.Besides the huge cost of…

NEW DELHI: The two proposals of road transport ministry to bring relief to lakhs of commuters from shelling out high toll on national highways and expressways — no user fee on narrower NHs that are two-and-half lanes and option of annual pass costing around Rs 3,000 for unlimited travel for cars — are now under…

NEW DELHI: Finally a breakthrough will be achieved officially at Silkyara in Uttarakhand on Wednesday when the two ends of the tunnel excavated from opposite directions meet. The project was stuck for months after a section of the Silkyara Bend–Barkot tunnel collapsed while under construction in November 2023.With this breakthrough the excavation work will be…

BSF personnel in Murshidabad NEW DELHI: Anti-Waqf law rioters had used petrol bombs and stones against Border Security Force (BSF) personnel in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, a senior officer of the border guarding force said on Sunday.According to Nilotpal Kumar Pandey, BSF’s DIG and PRO (South Bengal Frontier), the situation remains “tense but under control”…

BR Ambedkar statue at Amritsar (File photo-PTI) Observed every year on April 14, Ambedkar Jayanti — also known as Bhim Jayanti — commemorates the birth anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, the chief architect of the Indian Constitution and a champion of social justice, equality, and education. In 2025, the day falls on Monday, bringing with…

Assam CEE admit card 2025: Assam Science and Technological University (ASTU) has officially released the admit card for the Assam Combined Entrance Examination (CEE) 2025 on its website, astu.ac.in. Candidates who have successfully submitted their Assam CEE application forms can now access and download their hall tickets by logging in with their application number and…

NEW DELHI: Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Sunday pardoned her nephew Akash Anand and re-inducted him into the party after he publicly apologised for being “under the continued influence of his father-in-law, which was deemed to be more important than the party’s interest.”In a social media post on X, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister…