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Government employees in Ranchi voiced their discontent as the Jharkhand government annulled the JSSC-CGL examination RANCHI: A large group of government employees appointed through the JSSC-CGL recruitment process staged a protest in Ranchi after the Jharkhand government cancelled the examination, with protesters sitting on the ground outside the main entrance of the state secretariat and raising slogans in unison.Videos of protesters are viral all over social media, they can be seen gathered outside the entrance, sitting together on the ground and raising synchronized slogans as they demand the government reconsider its decision and address their grievances.The protest followed the state…

A native of Porbandar, Joshi came to Vadodara for his studies at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, where he became involved with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). VADODARA: From writing a sanedo on cleanliness as an MS University student to becoming a Lok Sabha MP and now taking charge of the BJP’s youth wing, Hemang Joshi’s political journey has taken him from student activism in Vadodara to a national role.At 35, Joshi succeeds Bengaluru MP Tejasvi Surya as president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM). He already heads the BJP’s youth wing in Gujarat.From MSU student to…

Varanasi: Ten people, including a pastor, were detained in Narhan Khas village under the Jiyanpur Kotwali area of Azamgarh district on Sunday over alleged religious conversion activity.The detained pastor was identified as Sonu Kumar, a resident of Mohammadabad Gohna in Mau district.Sagari circle officer Deshraj Singh said people were being misled in the name of exorcism and religious rituals. It was also alleged that attempts were being made to influence the men and women present at the spot to convert their religion.After receiving the information, Bajrang Dal workers reached the location. An argument broke out between the workers and the…

Kolkata: Amid protests by a section of schoolteachers demanding that Census work be treated as official “on-duty” assignment, the Census authorities on Monday clarified that the exercise is an honorarium-based engagement and would largely have to be carried out beyond school hours. However, officials said district magistrates and municipal commissioners would have the discretion to decide the duty schedule of enumerators in their respective jurisdictions.Addressing a media conference, Census director Nikhil Pawan Kalyan said the workload assigned to enumerators was manageable and could be completed with limited fieldwork each day. “Each enumerator will cover 150 to 200 households. Over a…

A Florida neighbourhood dispute over dog poop allegedly spiralled into a bizarre confrontation involving thrown feces, a physical fight and a child’s metal scooter. Trey Decloedt, 35, was arrested by Lake County Sheriff’s deputies on August 8 after an altercation with his neighbour in Leesburg, Florida, according to reports citing the arrest affidavit. The dispute reportedly began after repeated complaints about dog feces being left around the properties without being cleaned up. Police say Decloedt entered his neighbour’s home carrying dog feces and threw it at him before the two men fought outside. He is also accused of raising a…

Flags at government sites are flying at half-mast and security vehicles are parked in the heart of Beijing, as China mourns former Premier Zhu Rongji.Zhu died of an illness last week at 97, and will be cremated at a funeral in Beijing on Tuesday. There has not been footage from the ceremony, which is being kept low-key.Zhu, who served as China’s premier from 1998 to 2003, is remembered as one of the country’s most important economic reformers.While hailing the late premier as a “loyal” party member, the Chinese state is also wary that public mourning for his era of reform…

85-year-old David Siggins says he is “close to a breakdown” after Rochford Council ordered him to remove the £2,200 driveway he built for easier access to his Essex home. (Photo: SWNS) An 85-year-old man in Essex is facing the threat of legal action after being ordered to remove a £2,200 block-paved driveway he built outside his home, claiming he needed easier access because of his difficulty walking. According to a report by SWNS, David Siggins, from Rochford, said he spent two years trying to follow the correct process before transforming a grass verge into a 3-metre-wide by 5-metre-long driveway.Siggins, who…

Germany has carried out its first raids under a new law to crack down on smugglers using the country as a staging post for small boat crossings on the English Channel, the BBC has learned.More than 9,000 life jackets, dozens of dinghies and engines and 360 pumps were seized by police this spring during a joint operation involving the UK, France and Germany in the North Rhine-Westphalia region.The dinghies and equipment are now being stored at a secret location that the BBC was given special access to.The boats could have taken more than 2,000 migrants across the Channel illegally, according…

The number of job vacancies has fallen to its lowest level in more than five years as smaller businesses cut back on recruitment, the latest official figures indicate.Vacancy numbers dipped slightly over the May-to-July period to 707,000, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which said small firms were citing labour and operating costs as reasons for scaling back hiring.The ONS said the labour market was “little changed overall”, with the unemployment rate remaining at 4.9%.Growth in regular earnings – which excludes bonuses – picked up slightly, rising at an annual pace of 3.5% in the three months to…

For the second time in the Test match, KL Rahul and Devdutt Padikkal stitched together a half-century stand for the second wicket. It was only the fifth time an Indian pair had managed two 50-plus partnerships in the same Test in Sri Lanka, the second such instance in Galle and the first in 16 years, with VVS Laxman and Suresh Raina the last to achieve the feat in Colombo in 2008.Devdutt Padikkal and KL Rahul scored a second straight 50-run stand in the Galle TestHowever, the partnership would not have been possible without a crucial intervention from Padikkal, who convinced…