The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a corruption case against a Chief Engineer of the Konkan Railway Corporation Limited and a private company, along with its directors, on bribery charge. The accused persons have been identified as Sumeet Khajuria, a 2005-batch Indian Railway Service of Engineers (IRSE) officer posted as a Chief Engineer … Read more
Your book collection is often a reflection of your interests and when one of them is design, there’s no dearth of titles that you can stock up. They also make for great gifts whether it is for adding to someone’s reading collection or for their display of coffee table books. Vinay Sachdeva of Page3 Bookshop … Read more
Larger text size Large text size Regular text size Do you sweat, chew your pencil, and feel butterflies in your stomach as your teacher hands out a test? A lot of people (adults included) get freaked out when it’s time to take a test. It’s natural to feel some stress about taking tests. In fact, … Read more
The Supreme Court on September 6, 2023, agreed to hear a plea of the Editors Guild of India (EGI), whose Manipur fact-finding team is facing the risk of arrest from the State. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar The Supreme Court on September 6, 2023, agreed to hear a plea of the Editors Guild of … Read more
E-readers may have become exceedingly popular, but they don’t wield the magic that books do. A click can never replicate the feeling of flipping pages, and there’s no way a e-reader can waft the smell of books. According to a 2009 study published in American Chemical Society’s Analytical Chemistry, the smell of old books is … Read more
Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library in Patna. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Centre will soon launch a centralised repository of books accessible at all libraries across the country, including the high-profile Parliament Library, the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library and the collection at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Pilot in 13 libraries The move which is … Read more
The Karnataka Lokayukta has booked the Joint Director of Social Welfare Department and warden of Government Post Matric PUC Boys Hostel in Bogadi in Mysuru for alleged maladministration and poor maintenance of the hostel. After noticing ‘poor maintenance and maladministration’ at the hostel during his surprise visit on June 18, Upalokayukta K.N. Phaneendra has ordered … Read more
The CBI conducted searches at 25 locations in connection with an FIR registered against 21 BSNL officials, including a former general manager, officials said. The premier investigative agency alleged that the accused officials entered into a conspiracy with a contractor to cheat the government-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL). The CBI registered the FIR against … Read more
