PIL against promotion of IAS officers rejected Chennai: Madras high court on Wednesday dismissed a public interest writ petition as not maintainable challenging the promotion of seven Tamil Nadu IAS officers, including T Udhayachandran, of 1995 batch, to the grade of chief secretary. The petition alleged that the state failed to obtain prior approval of…
Hyderabad: Taking a stern view of the delay in disbursing retirement benefits to former employees, the Telangana high court on Wednesday directed the state finance department to furnish complete details of all retired govt staff who are still awaiting their post-retirement benefits, along with the token numbers issued for payment clearance, within two weeks.Justice Namavarapu…
Thunderstorm activity is likely to intensify across Haryana on June 11 and 12 Gurgaon: India Meteorological Department (IMD) has placed the city under an orange alert for June 11 and 12, warning of thunderstorms, lightning and strong winds, with gusts likely to reach 60-80 kmph. The city will remain under a yellow alert on June…
West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari KOLKATA: Bengal’s first BJP govt announced the distribution of cabinet portfolios on Wednesday, putting qualified ministers and veteran politicians in charge of critical departments like health, education, finance and commerce and industry.CM Suvendu Adhikari kept the key home portfolio with himself. The party put oncologist Sharadwat Mukherjee in charge of…
The complex includes a football pitch, 1,350-seater covered stands, a multi-purpose lawn, children’s play area, and outdoor gym Panaji: Nearly three years after its completion, the Rs 30-crore football ground and parade stadium at Campal remains closed to the public, caught in a bureaucratic deadlock between govt departments.Officials of the Corporation of the City of…
AMC has released the picture of the dog allegedly involved in an attack on a child in Ahmedabad’s Lad Society Ahmedabad: A nine-year-old boy was allegedly attacked by a rottweiler outside a Lad Society bungalow, in the city’s Bodakdev area, on Tuesday morning. The boy received stitches for injuries to his head and above the…
Batala: Unidentified assailants opened fire at Gurbindar Singh, the AAP youth president for the Fatehgarh Churian assembly constituency and sarpanch of Qadian Rajputan, in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district on Tuesday evening, leaving him critically wounded.Gurbindar Singh was about to step into his vehicle after visiting his uncle at his home in Qadian Rajputan, around 14 km…
Pune: Two men riding a two-wheeler fired three rounds in the direction of two others, in which one of them sustained injuries, around 10pm on Wednesday near Shinde High School on Padmavati-Sahakarnagar road. The two then sped away towards Taljai Vasahat, Sahakarnagar police said.Officials from crime branch of Sahakarnagar and Parvati police stations studied the…
Lucknow: Self-employment schemes promoted by the Uttar Pradesh govt are helping rural youth set up small enterprises and generate local employment, said UP govt officials on Wednesday.They cited the success story of one Ram Lakhan who is a beneficiary of the Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP). A resident of Deoria village in Lakhimpur Kheri…
WCD officer was caught red handed by ACB while taking bribe Jaisalmer: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Wednesday arrested an assistant administrative officer of the Women and Child Development dept, Pokhran in Jaisalmer district, while he was allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000.Narayan Togas, deputy inspector general of police, ACB Jodhpur, said the ACB’s Jaisalmer…
