VS Rathanvel, India’s 99th Grandmaster NEW DELHI: Last July, the congratulations arrived all at once. Reports and chess pages across India carried the same news that VS Rathanvel, a 25-year-old from Coimbatore, had crossed 2500 at the Guwahati Smart City International Open and become the country’s 99th Grandmaster (GM). It looked as if his four-year…
Lucknow: UP govt on Monday released Rs 397 crore for payment of long-pending honoraria to personnel associated with the Saakshar Bharat Mission, bringing relief to thousands of district and block coordinators and preraks whose dues have remained unpaid for years.According to an order issued by the director of the State Literacy Mission Authority, Anil Bhushan…
AI generated image, used only for representational purpose Stuck at a desk while the rest of the world is busy celebrating may not be the ideal Diwali plan. However, companies are rolling out a range of festive perks to make sure their employees don’t miss out on the celebrations.From longer weekends and work-from-home options to…
Lucknow: Under the Mukhyamantri Abhyudaya Yojana, a govt scheme under which free coaching is provided to needy students for competitive exams, 19,856 candidates are currently registered at 157 centres across the state.The scheme, being implemented by the department of social welfare, is aimed at providing free coaching for various competitive examinations, including UPSC, UPPSC, NEET,…
Representative image of cannabis seeds from Canva Researchers studying a 2,800-year-old princely tomb in southern Siberia have found about 1,000 cannabis seeds alongside preserved human hair containing chemical traces associated with cannabis intoxication. The discovery, reported by Phys.org, ScienceAlert and Discover Magazine, suggests that people buried in the Scythian-era tomb may have used cannabis for…
Police have stepped up surveillance, frisking and anti-sabotage checks at temples, courts, schools and other crowded locations. LUCKNOW: Security has been intensified across Ayodhya, Varanasi and Mathura after a threatening email warned of bomb attacks at key religious sites and schools between November 8 and November 27, triggering a multi-agency investigation and heightened vigil in…
RSSB Mahila Supervisor final answer key 2026: The Rajasthan Staff Selection Board (RSSB) has released the final answer key for the Mahila Supervisor Direct Recruitment Examination 2026. Candidates who appeared for the examination can access the answer key on the board’s official website, rssb.rajasthan.gov.in. The final answer key was released on November 6, 2026, following…
The accused, Balister alias Ramesh Chandra, a native of Muradpur village. LUCKNOW: Nearly four decades after securing bail from the Allahabad high court and slipping into obscurity, a 65-year-old robbery accused carrying a reward of Rs 15,000 finally ran out of places to hide. Kanpur Dehat police traced him after a painstaking two-month hunt during…
Gridlock on a highway where vehicles aren’t legally allowed to stop even for a second (Photo credit: Anindya Chattopadhyay) NEW DELHI: It took me about 45 minutes to cover 650 metres from the Ghazipur round-about to the flower market crossing Friday midnight. That’s less than 1kmph on India’s widest expressway, NE3. It has 6 expressway…
The tigress was clicked in a trap camera in Buxa on Thursday Kolkata: The next phase of tiger relocation to Buxa will be taken up only after two additional enclosures are built, the existing one is reinforced and forest staff receive further training and field experience, National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) member secretary Sanjay Kumar…
