Amritsar: The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has suspended the services of providing ‘saroops’ (scriptures) of the Guru Granth Sahib to the community and gurdwaras until May 20, in view of changes to rules governing their publication and distribution.The move follows Punjab govt’s passage of the Jaagat Jot Sri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar (Amendment) Act,…
Tech entrepreneur Jeff Bezos’s $200 million donation to the Smithsonian Institution is revolutionizing public education. A significant portion is renovating the National Air and Space Museum, while $130 million establishes a new education center. The world of major cultural philanthropy often views historic gifts as simply acts of self-promotion and impressive architecture. We like to…
Hyderabad: The Singareni Collieries Company (SCCL), which has been supplying coal uninterruptedly to several southern states for decades, had a coal stock of 26 lakh tonnes across its mines and coal handling plants (CHPs) as of June 4 — the lowest stock level recorded in past decade.Responding indirectly to allegations made by BRS working president…
Corporators questioned the practice of compensatory plantation being carried out outside Mumbai’s municipal limits, arguing that such measures dilute the objective of maintaining the city’s green cover Mumbai: At the BMC’s Tree Authority meeting on Friday, when multiple tree-cutting and transplantation proposals came up for approval, corporators across party lines questioned the practice of compensatory…
Hyderabad: Former minister T Harish Rao on Tuesday alleged that some officials, acting on the Congress govt’s instructions, were tapping phones of BRS leaders and used CCTV cameras near their homes to monitor their movements. He claimed that officials hired hackers from Bengaluru by paying them large sums.Speaking to the media at Sangareddy Central Jail…
NEW DELHI: A 35-year-old man allegedly murdered his tenant in northwest Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh area on Tuesday evening, suspecting an illicit relationship between the victim and his wife, police said.The accused, identified as Virender, a resident of Indira Colony, later walked into the police station in blood stained clothes and confessed to the crime, leading…
The properties demolished were valued at around Rs 5 crore GURGAON: The city police crime branch launched a crackdown on criminals by demolishing illegal properties allegedly built from proceeds of crime, officials said on Wednesday.As part of a special campaign against habitual offenders, drug traffickers, land mafias and anti-social elements, the police took action against…
NEW DELHI: Cracks within the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) came out in the open on Monday after some party MLAs, led by senior leader C Ve Shanmugam, submitted a letter to pro tem Speaker M V Karuppaiah seeking the appointment of former minister S P Velumani as the AIADMK legislature party leader….
New Delhi: Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital has become the country’s first 2,000-bedded govt hospital to receive the National Quality Assurance Standards (NQAS) certification from Union health ministry, officials informed on Monday.The certification recognises Delhi govt-run tertiary care hospital’s performance across critical healthcare quality indicators, including patient safety, infection control, clinical services and hospital…
CHENNAI: “There appear to be some irregularities, as about Rs 100 crore was not disclosed in the election affidavit,” the Madras high court said on Monday while directing actor and TVK founder Vijay, the income tax department and the Election Commission of India to respond to a plea alleging discrepancies in the election affidavits filed…
