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Kolkata, Oct 30 (IANS) In an attempt to make things convenient for voters during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, has opened multiple channels to update the voters about the booth-level officers for the respective areas.The CEO’s office has decided to widely publicize the details of the BLOs for the respective areas, along with their mobile numbers, so that in case of any inconvenience faced, the voters would be able to directly contact the BLO concerned and get the issues addressed.“The details of the BLOs, including the mobile numbers, will be available at the respective websites of the CEO’s office as well as that of the offices of the district magistrates, who are also the district electoral officers. At the same time t...

New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Public sector mining major NMDC recorded a robust 33 per cent increase in net profit at Rs 1,694 crore in the second quarter (July-September) of the current financial year, amid a strong domestic steel demand and resilient mining operations, according to an official statement issued on Thursday.The company’s turnover for the second quarter surged 30 per cent to Rs. 6,261 crore while the profit before tax jumped 35 per cent to Rs. 2,271 crore. The government-owned mining company also recorded a 32 per cent rise in its EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) to Rs. 2,385 crore during the quarter.The company recorded an all-time high production and sales volumes during the quarter in Q2 FY26, with the output at 10.21 million tonnes, up 23...

Kolkata, Oct 30 (IANS) In the mysterious death of the 11-year-old niece of Sanjay Roy, the convict in the R. G. Kar case, a murder case has been filed against his sister and brother-in-law, said the police on Thursday. According to police sources, the deceased minor's grandmother, Pratima Singh, who is a resident of Vidyasagar Colony in south Kolkata's Alipore area, could not accept the untimely death of her granddaughter.She filed a complaint against her son, Bhola Singh and daughter-in-law, Pooja Singh, at the Alipore police station in connection with the murder of her granddaughter.However, apart from the grandmother, some residents of Vidyasagar Colony on D.L. Khan Road in Alipore have also filed a written complaint against Bhola and Pooja for the murder of their daughter.A police offi...

He further said those who kept the state in darkness under the ‘Lantern raaj’, can never deliver good governance.He added that Bihar, under Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's governance, is emerging as a hub of railway components' manufacturing unlike the previous regimes when the country’s largest public carrier was looted and "hence people will never believe their fake promises."PM Modi further invoked ‘naamdar and kaamdar’ to slam Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi’s distasteful comments, made at a poll rally in Bihar on Wednesday.“Naamdars can abuse and insult Kaamdars like me. They think that abusing and cursing the backward classes is their right and privilege. Their frustration is because they can’t digest the fact that a ‘chaiwala’ has reached the top constitutional off...

Kochi, Oct 30 (IANS) Vismaya Mohanlal, daughter of Malayalam cinema legend and Dadasaheb Phalke award winner Mohanlal, is set to make her acting debut with 'Thudakkam', directed by Jude Anthany Joseph and produced by Antony Perumbavoor under Aashirvad Cinemas.The film's puja ceremony was held in Kochi on Thursday, marking a momentous occasion for two of Malayalam cinema's most prominent families.Speaking at the event, Mohanlal said he had never imagined that both his children would follow him into films."When I was in Class 6, I won the best actor award - so did my son Appu (Pranav). But I never thought I'd become an actor, nor that my children would. My daughter is named Vismaya because my life has always been full of surprises," he said."When she decided to act, we gave her our full su...