Bengaluru: Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to Janata Dal (S) MLA H D Revanna on an appeal filed by the Karnataka govt challenging his discharge in a sexual harassment case filed by a former domestic help.A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and K Vinod Chandran sought Revanna’s response to the state’s plea…
Chennai: Thousands of commuters using Pattabiram railway station have urged Southern Railway to open a ticket counter on the station’s western side as they are forced to climb the steep footover bridge and reach the eastern side to buy tickets and return to board the suburban trains.There are three platforms in the Pattabiram station. Platform…
Hyderabad: Telangana high court has ordered a Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) inquiry into alleged large-scale encroachment of 74 acres of govt land in Survey No. 126 of Injapur village in Abdullapurmet mandal of Rangareddy district, observing that the material placed before it indicated possible collusion by revenue officials in allowing the encroachments to continue….
Police alleged that the accused misbehaved with the police team and assaulted personnel Gurgaon: A 26-year-old taxi driver was arrested on Sunday for allegedly driving rashly, injuring a motorcyclist in Sector 51, and later assaulting police personnel who reached the spot.The accused, Ajay Kumar, a native of Madhubani in Bihar who was living in rented…
The closed gate on Jessore Road that leads to the airport mosque Kolkata: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari and Bengal BJP chief Samik Bhattacharya have backed the removal of a mosque located within the operational area of the Kolkata airport, which the airport authorities have already declared out of bounds to the public indefinitely.“National security and…
Discharge at the Okhla barrage is currently recorded at around 10,000 cusecs, against a design capacity of 3 lakh cusecs. Ghaziabad: The irrigation department and district administration have set up a flood monitoring cell along Yamuna in Loni and fortified the Alipore embankment. A permanent office has been established at Panchayara, where sandbags and construction…
Panaji: Kadamba Transport Corporation (KTC) will induct 10 new diesel buses into its fleet within the next few days, with additional procurements planned, KTC Chairman Ulhas Tuyekar said on Monday.“Ten diesel-powered buses have gone for RTO registration. They will be added in the next one to three days,” Tuyekar said.He added that KTC expects to…
Varanasi: Thirty-nine employees of the Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS), Banaras Hindu University (BHU), who were promoted as senior nursing officers earlier this year, have been reverted to the post of nursing officer following the issuance of a revised promotion list after objections over the implementation of reservation rules. The affected employees have alleged that…
Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court has upheld imposition of fine on all 49 convicts on the grounds that their crime was of larger magnitude, and imposing fines for causing such damage is justified.In Feb 2022, the special court had fined 48 convicts with Rs 2.85 lakh for 29 offences under the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Unlawful…
Mohali: Members of the Kharar Safai Sewak Sangh Monday held a protest march in the city as part of the statewide indefinite agitation by sanitation workers that began on July 8. Carrying brooms and raising slogans against the Punjab govt, the protesters demanded regularisation of services, abolition of the outsourcing system, implementation of a minimum…
