NEW DELHI: The net deletion of around 47 lakh electors from Bihar’s rolls during the special intensive revision (SIR) and the consequent shrinking of the state’s voter base to 7.4 crore is among factors that may have pushed up Phase 1 polling percentage to record levels, EC officials said.Officers attribute the rise partly to better…
RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra addresses the 12th SBI Banking Economics Conclave, in Mumbai on Friday. (ANI) MUMBAI: Indian banks are now much bigger and stronger than they were a decade ago and the economy more resilient, which has emboldened the RBI to remove various restrictions, allowing banks greater exposure to capital market risks and to…
Lucknow: State-run schools with student enrolment of 500 or more will now have better infrastructural facilities to enrich the academic environment.DG of school education Monika Rani has asked DMs to help education officials identify such schools with sufficient land where a separate library, staff room, cultural, science and arts club, multipurpose hall, MDM shed, ICT…
NEW DELHI: As smog thickens in Delhi and people complain of burning eyes, scratchy throats and breathing problems, are the official air quality monitors accurately reflecting the capital’s air quality? A ground check by TOI at several stations found glaring inconsistencies and questionable practices that may be influencing readings. At Anand Vihar – a pollution…
MUMBAI: RBI deputy governor T Rabi Sankar said the fight against digital fraud is far from over, noting that the decline seen earlier this year reversed in July, with cases rising again.He said fraud levels had been falling since the start of the year before showing an uptick mid-year, suggesting that such trends may be…
Lucknow: A wanted criminal, Shivam Gupta of Lakhimpur Kheri, was injured in an encounter with police in Gomtinagar on Friday night. The encounter took place near Dayal Crossing. Shivam, wanted in multiple cases of snatching and robbery, opened fire on a police team during a routine vehicle checking drive before being shot in retaliatory firing….
NEW DELHI: A biker died and another was injured when a rashly driven crane towing a portable toilet hit their vehicles in southeast Delhi’s New Friends Colony. The crane driver, Sachin Kumar (22), has been arrested.An eyewitness reported that the recovery crane was speeding and swerving dangerously. It collided with the two motorcycles and then…
Lucknow: A grand ceremony was held at the Uttar Pradesh Police Headquarters in Gomtinagar Extension on Friday to mark 150 years of the national song ‘Vande Mataram’, written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. The event aimed to deepen patriotism and devotion to the motherland among officers and staff.Senior officers, including DGP Rajeev Krishna, ADG (law and…
PATNA: RJD‘s Tejashwi Yadav, who is opposition alliance’s CM face in Bihar polls, said on Friday BJP is “scared of a 37-year-old youth” and has deployed 30 helicopters to counter him.The star campaigner of Mahagathbandhan, who addressed 18 election rallies during the day, described himself “unstoppable” and declared that neither PM Modi nor any NDA…
Lucknow: A married man was allegedly set afire by his paramour and her siblings in UP’s Siddharthnagar district on Wednesday, police said, adding that the victim succumbed to burns while undergoing treatment at BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur on Thursday night.Police said that the victim, aged 30, ran a milk business in Delhi and was…
