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Kantha Kathan, a six-day exhibition celebrating the living tradition and entrepreneurial evolution of rural Bengal’s Kantha artists, opened at Kolkata’s Lalit Kala Akademi on September 11. Featuring 16 women artisans from Nanoor and Ausgram, the event combines curated retail with design talks and hands-on workshops.
The West Bengal Assembly’s passage of the University Administration Amendment Bill grants the state unchecked powers to transfer college and university staff. While pitched as a reform to aid newer institutions, the move strikes at the core of campus autonomy, raising fears that punitive transfers will be used to silence critical academic voices.
At least six people have died and several others were injured after a multi-storey building used as a student accommodation collapsed in Delhi’s Satya Niketan area on Sunday afternoon. Rescue teams continued searching through the rubble on Monday, as authorities feared that more people could still be trapped beneath the debris.
Hundreds of students in Ranchi, Jharkhand, are protesting for weeks against irregularities in several government examinations. The protest started on July 29.
In a monumental breakthrough for inter-state water management, the governments of Rajasthan and Haryana signed a historic Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) on Monday to implement the long-delayed Yamuna Water Project. The pact, signed in the national capital, operationalizes the 1994 Upper Yamuna River Board Agreement, effectively ending a 32-year-old water-sharing dispute.
Stand tall, be a pineapple. Pineapple, the state fruit of Tripura seems to be on the verge of living up to the old adage as the state gears up for Tripura Global Pineapple Festival at New Delhi this month
In a major push for women’s empowerment and social inclusion, the Kerala government has announced that women and transgender individuals can travel free of cost on state-run buses starting June 15, 2026. Named the ‘Priyadarshini’ scheme, the initiative fulfills a key election promise made under the ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) government’s ‘Indira Guarantee’ welfare programme.
Patna| June 11 Bihar Health Minister Nishant Kumar’s election affidavit for the upcoming Bihar Legislative…
On June 9, 2026, India’s National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) along with executing agency Megha Engineering & Infrastructures Limited (MEIL) successfully achieved the final excavation breakthrough of the strategic 13.15-kilometer Zojila Tunnel.
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