Kolkata: State govt employees can now access salary advances to meet emergency needs, including medical expenses, children’s education and unforeseen household expenditures, under a new scheme introduced by the finance department.A notification has been issued introducing West Bengal Salary Advance Scheme, which provides a digital platform for employees to avail themselves of short-term and multi-month…
Usman Khawaja, Pat Cummins Australia Test captain Pat Cummins is set to respond to Usman Khawaja‘s allegations about the 2018 ball-tampering scandal, saying he needed time to understand the claims made in the former opener’s autobiography before addressing them.Khawaja’s book, ‘Sabr’, released on Tuesday, has brought the controversy surrounding the Cape Town Test against South…
The Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) has withdrawn recruitment advertisements for 1,711 Assistant Professor posts in state medical colleges and hospitals. The Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) has cancelled its recruitment advertisements for 1,711 Assistant Professor (Specialty) posts in medical colleges and hospitals across the state. The decision affects advertisements numbered 04/2025 to 28/2025, which…
Kolkata: The Bengal cabinet on Wednesday decided to offer jobs to family members of those who died in poll-related violence over the past 25 years.Sources, however, said officials who would steer the implementation of the job scheme in districts have been told to focus primarily on the families who lost loved ones in political violence…
US President Donald Trump said the technology should be referred to as “super intelligence”. US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said his administration would ban the term “artificial intelligence” in official documents, calling it inaccurate. He said the technology should instead be called “super intelligence”.In a post on Truth Social, Trump questioned why The Wall…
The Chawri Bazar building collapse in Delhi has left six deceased, identified as workers from Bihar (Photo credit: Anushka Kogta) NEW DELHI: The death toll in the Chawri Bazar building collapse rose to six Saturday after rescue teams found four more bodies under the debris of the under-construction structure.The deceased were identified as Vipin Ram,…
New Delhi: A Delhi court has sought an explanation from Tihar Jail authorities on why only two of the five inmates identified as potential threats to Aaftab Amin Poonawala were shifted from his security ward, observing that the threat to him persists inside the prison.Additional Sessions Judge Hargurvarinder Singh Jaggi in an order dated Nov…
With police probing the allegations and the role of lenders and recovery agents, the cases have brought the human cost of debt distress into sharp focus (AI image used for representational purpose) A new home, a struggling business, a medical emergency — loans often promise a fresh start when money falls short.But what begins as…
Varanasi: Samajwadi Party candidate Ashutosh Sinha, who won the Varanasi Division Graduate Legislative Council seat, credited his victory to party national president Akhilesh Yadav and dedicated party workers.Asked about the political situation in Uttar Pradesh after the party’s victories in Kashi and Prayagraj, Sinha said, “This is just a glimpse; forming the govt in Uttar…
The unit during the shooting of ‘Adamya’ Kolkata: Ranjan Ghosh’s ‘Adamya’, a small independent Bengali film, travelled 5,407-odd km from the deltaic tides of the Sundarbans to northeastern Siberia to win the NETPAC prize at IX Yakutsk International Film Festival in Yakutsk, capital of the Sakha Republic.The festival, held from Nov 4 to 9, featured…
