The 648-metre bridge in the Aishbagh area, which cost Rs 18 crore to build, was meant to eliminate long delays at railway crossings and shorten the commute for nearly three lakh people daily.

Additional Chief Secretary, Education Department, Dr S Siddharth on Thursday issued a directive allowing teachers to apply for transfers through the e-Shikshak Kosh portal. This move comes after multiple rounds of transfers failed to resolve complaints from teachers about their assigned locations.

Flash floods due to cloudbursts were also reported from Qazi Mora in Poonch and high-altitude areas of Doda, Udhampur and Ramban districts. There was no report of any casualty.

The flash floods occurred in Kangra and Kullu districts on Wednesday.

With Shivraj Singh Chouhan completing one year at Krishi Bhawan, a noticeable trend has emerged within the Ministry of Agriculture’s public relations wing.

Yadav also chaired a meeting of the standing committee of the National Board for Wildlife in Dehradun and the committee recommended the inclusion of sloth bear and gharial in the ministry’s species recovery programme, the ministry added. 

Karnataka Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre ordered the principal chief conservator of forests (PCCF) to conduct a probe and submit a report to him within three days.

In a post on social media Thursday, Praveen Narayanan, the film director, said that the CBFC’s revising committee wanted a change not only in the movie title but also in the name of the protagonist.

According to Maharashtra Police, the murder was suspected to be a fallout of previous quarrels between the families of both the boys, who are neighbours in Ahilyanagar.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday also expressed fear that there could be a threat to his life.

Orissa High Court bulldozer justice: A single-judge bench of Justice SK Panigrahi was hearing a petition by residents of Balipur Mouza village in Odisha’s Cuttack district who were challenging eviction proceedings initiated against the property that administration claims stood on common village land.

The executive committee of the National CAMPA (Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority), under the environment ministry, approved in-principle funding for the scheme on a pilot basis for one year, as per official documents.

Their daily life — working as masons, iron benders, carpenters, ceramic tilers, bakers and so on — is punctuated by frequent missile alerts on their phones and several dashes to the nearest bomb shelter, or “miklat” as these reinforced spaces are called in Hebrew.

Shah was speaking while releasing a book titled The Emergency Diaries - Years that Forged a Leader by BlueKraft Digital Foundation, chronicling Modi’s experiences during the anti-Emergency movement.

A fighter pilot and test pilot with the Indian Air Force, with more than 2,000 hours of flying experience, Shukla is the designated pilot for the Crew Dragon spacecraft that took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida exactly at noon India time.

Among the rescued was a 52-year-old-labourer, who had gone to extract sand from the river bed. Eight others, including those who had gone to perform religious rituals for their deceased ancestors.

Students will then be given an opportunity to improve their performance but will have to choose three subjects out of science, mathematics, social science, and the two language papers, going by the final policy for two board exams that the CBSE announced on Wednesday.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s meeting with Congress general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal, which came in the wake of bribery allegations made by some Karnataka Congress leaders, has sparked discussions in the state unit.

The NIA submission has figured in the order of the special court in Kochi, which on June 11 had rejected the bail application of four PFI workers, who were arrested in the murder of RSS worker A Sreenivasan in Palakkad in April 2022.

The Tripura police said the man was seen trying to set fire to some chips packets on the railway track at the Bishalgarh railway station.

Jan Suraaj, which was formally launched by Kishor in October 2024 after his two-year-long padayatra across Bihar, has announced plans to contest all 243 assembly seats, positioning itself as an alternative to established parties such as Janata Dal (United), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), and Congress.

Born into a poor family, Nanaji Deshmukh was sheltered by industrialist Nusli Wadia from arrest during Emergency. Later, he would quietly fade out of politics

The suspect, Siddharth Ojha, was arrested in his hometown Chittorgarh Wednesday and will be produced before a court soon.

Once police arrived, they discovered that the body had been stuffed inside the suitcase along with cement, ostensibly to hide the smell.