Hyderabad: The Telangana high court upheld the Forest Department’s efforts to stop barytes and dolomite mining in the Garla reserve forest of Khammam district, and dismissed petitions filed by mining and labour contract companies against stop-work notices issued since 2009.Justice Nagesh Bheemapaka criticised administrative lapses by revenue authorities, saying their wrongful classification of reserve forest…
Of 400 vehicles, only 313 were on the ground as of Sunday Gurgaon: A large chunk of MCG’s garbage collection vans are out of service, raising questions about the city’s emergency door-to-door waste collection infrastructure, monitoring and accountability. Of 400 vehicles, only 313 were on the ground as of Sunday, exposing a glaring shortfall of…
Noida: A 400-m interchange between Aqua Line‘s Sector 51 and Blue Line’s Sector 52 metro stations has become an ordeal for commuters. Due to the ongoing construction of a skywalk between the two stations, commuters exiting Sector 51 station have to first walk to the rear of the building, take a circuitous route to reach…
Panaji: Goa has reported the fourth-highest morbidity rate in the country, with 18.7% of its population indicating illness within a 15-day reference period, as against the national average of 13.1%.The figures were released in the National Statistics Office (NSO) report on household social consumption: health, published in April for the period Jan to Dec 2025.Only…
Varanasi: Preparations are underway to develop Kashi into a major international water transport hub. In this regard, the long-awaited construction of the Saamne Ghat cruise terminal has been cleared. The nagar nigam’s executive committee has given in-principle conditional consent to hand over two acres of land located at Saamne Ghat to the Inland Waterways Authority…
Ahmedabad: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday approved the development of a ship repair facility at Vadinar in Devbhumi Dwarka district. The project will be jointly implemented by Deendayal Port Authority and Cochin Shipyard Limited with a combined investment of Rs 1,570 crore.The project will include a…
Mahendragarh: A local court here has awarded a man from Rajasthan a 20-year jail term for trafficking of drugs.The court of the additional sessions judge held the prime accused, Ashok Kumar Yogi, a resident of Neemrana in Rajasthan, guilty of drug trafficking in a 2021 case.Ashok Yogi’s accomplices, Jagdish, Inderjeet and Yashpal, were each sentenced…
Kolhapur: After 36 years in jail, Ronald Alvares (65), a rape and murder convict, finally walked out of Kolhapur’s Kalamba central jail on May 3 following the Kolhapur bench of the Bombay high court’s direction for his “immediate release” as the state failed to comply with the HC’s earlier order of March 7 directing his…
Agartala: Political unrest gripped Jampuijala in Tripura’s Sepahijala district after police arrested Tipra Motha leaders following the reported vandalism of a BJP party office.Police said they opened an investigation based on complaints that named local Tipra Motha MLA Biswajit Koloi and ADC member Suraj Debbarma in connection with the incident. Jampuijala ADC village chairman Ranjit…
Rajesh Kumar Pandey | TNNPrayagraj: Allahabad high court has clarified that constitutional functionaries like MPs, judges, and ministers are entitled to ‘Honourable’ honorifics. The court, however, clarified that a civil servant, regardless of rank, is not entitled to use this specific honorific.A bench of Justice JJ Munir and Justice Tarun Saxena in its April 30…
