Prakash Chandra

Thieves who stole 25 high-value saris worth Rs 7.18 lakh from a government handloom outlet in Angul have returned 24 of them. The well-dressed women, caught on CCTV, sent the saris back via courier, with one suspect reportedly apologizing and citing embarrassment from the viral video. Police confirm legal action will proceed despite the restitution.

Despite a decline in female candidates, women's representation in the assembly remains unchanged at seven seats. The BJP increased its footprint with four successes, while Congress struggled, winning merely one seat. Independent allies AGP and BPF hit the mark perfectly with their single women candidates securing seats.

The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) has announced candidates for 26 assembly seats, with half being Muslim nominees. Notably, two suspended AIUDF MLAs joined AGP and secured tickets. Party president Atul Bora confirmed AGP would only contest seats allocated by the BJP, rejecting any friendly contests for seats the BJP claimed.

Prakash Chandra Arya, better known in Lucknow circles as PC Little, died on Tuesday. Little died of a suspected cardiac arrest during his sleep at his Aliganj-based home. He was 73.

LUCKNOW: Special judicial magistrate, CBI, Ram Murti Yadav, while remanding accused Prakash Chandra Pandey, detained in Madhumita Shukla murder case, directed superintendent of jail, Unnao, to hand over his custody to the CBI.

Mauritius has agreed to negotiate and revise the existing Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement with India and the two sides are expected to meet soon to work out the details, CBDT chairman Prakash Chandra said on Saturday.

You all must feel proud of being a soldier's father and this must show on your face when you talk to anybody in the society, said Mhow station commander Brig Prakash Chandra.

The Auraiyya police raided and unearthed an illegal godown of firecrackers at Feeder Road under Kotwali police station on late Sunday night and arrested one person.

Coordinator/manager Prakash Chandra Tiwari of Bal Preksha Grih on Pragnarayan Road was arrested for allegedly sodomising a 20-year-old boy. Early morning on Saturday, the boy reached Sultanganj police chowki where a case was registered against the man under Hazratganj police circle.

The metropolitan magistrate (VIII), Kanpur Nagar, on Wednesday sent one Sanjay Sagar to jail on forgery charges and asked the police to arrest the co-accused.

Vigilance sleuths on Monday arrested Prakash Chandra Sahoo, additional commercial tax officer in Paradip, Jagatsinghpur district, while allegedly accepting Rs 2 lakh bribe from a glass and plywood dealer for not taking any action following an inspection of his business site and

The Sangam city, which figures in the list of selected districts for Green Revolution as a part of the Union ministry of agriculture's ambitious project, is expected to boost wheat crop production by 50% this year.

Former Bengal skipper Prakash Chandra Poddar, commonly known as PC Poddar On the Kolkata Maidan, passed away recently in the city at the age of 82. A former first-class cricketer Poddar, who played 74 matches between 1960 and 1977, scoring 3836 runs with 11 centuries, however, is best remembered for giving Indian cricket its one of the most precious gifts in Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

Succumbing to the mounting pressure by engineers in Madhya Pradesh, the government has removed Datia collector Prakash Chandra Jangre. His transfer order was issued in haste on Saturday night, a government holiday.

LUCKNOW: The special judicial magistrate CBI Ram Murti Yadav here on Tuesday extended judicial remand of five accused in Madhumita Shukla murder case till December 20 next and sent them to jail accordingly.

The court of judicial magistrate, Bageshwar, Puneet Kumar found Prakash Chandra Tiwari, a Khadi spinning and weaving instructor, guilty of embezzling Rs. 7,15,882 from the sales store of Khadi Gramudyog Sales Bhandar in Kapkot.

When Prakash Chandra Sarangi joined as the vice-chancellor of Ravenshaw University in January 2015, he had great plans to covert the varsity into a research hub.

Tribal-dominated districts of the state have proved that the adage birth of a girl is celebrated more than a boy is still followed in their households.

A 50-year-old woman employee of Almora municipality was run over by a speeding truck in the Dugalkhola area of Almora on Friday evening.

The divisional forest officer (DFO) of Dhenkanal was attacked by some miscreants when he found them transporting stones illegally in a forest area on Saturday night.

A pregnant woman died under mysterious circumstances in Bidhnu area of the district on late Sunday night.According to her parents, their daughter was pregnant and her husband gave her some abortion medicine, which worsened her health and she died.

When the All India Prakash Chandra Ghosh Memorial Full Length Bengali Drama Competition started in 1964, little did any of its founders know that it would one day celebrate its golden jubilee, a proud moment for Bengali drama in general and Lucknow's theatre patrons in particular.