Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday upheld the maintainability of a PIL alleging Forest Rights Act violations in the Great Nicobar infrastructure project and observed that “the tribal population in Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a very vulnerable tribal group and not ordinarily accessible to common men”.A division bench of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and…
MUMBAI: More than 1.5 years after it was inaugurated with fanfare, ‘Maharashtra House in Stuttgart, Germany, is yet to start operations. Inaugurated as a trade facilitation and liai son office in Aug 2024 by then school education minister De epak Kesarkar, it has been shut from day one followingdi rections from the Ministry of External…
Pune: Police on Wednesday morning took Chetan Chaudhary (22), an accused in the murder of Gahunje realtor Ketan Agarwal, to Lohagad Fort to recreate the crime scene and conduct a gait analysis.An officer from the Pune Rural police said the team recreated the sequence of events at the fort to verify Chaudhary’s movements and compare…
Kolkata: With no significant change in the mercury, the city continued to reel under intense heat and humidity. The Met office expects slight relief between Saturday and Sunday, during which the city might get a spell of rain or two. Even as the southwest monsoon has set over the Kerala coast on Thursday, the Met…
NEW DELHI: The Congress high command on Tuesday held a crucial meeting with Karnataka CM-designate DK Shivakumar and caretaker chief minister Siddaramaiah to finalise the composition of the new state Cabinet ahead of the swearing-in ceremony scheduled for Wednesday.Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi chaired the meeting, which…
Hyderabad: Girls have surged ahead in Telangana’s degree college admissions this year, securing nearly two out of every three seats in phase I of the Degree Online Services Telangana (DOST) allotments. Their share now stands at almost 65%, leaving boys with just over a third—a striking reversal that has widened steadily over the past five…
Bengaluru: The first batch of 15 artisans from Belagavi will begin training at Karnataka Institute of Leather Technology and Fashion (KILT) in July under the Prada-Dr Babu Jagjivan Ram Leather Industries Development Corporation Ltd (Lidkar) collaboration, marking the start of a three-year programme to skill 90 artisans in the state.The initiative follows criticism faced by…
Trichy: AIPTMMK general secretary V K Sasikala called for the ouster of DMK to prevent anarchic rule in the state. Campaigning in Trichy on Thursday, Sasikala demanded that the Union govt should not reduce Tamil Nadu’s Lok Sabha constituencies just because the state has strictly followed population control measures for years.In Srirangam, Sasikala highlighted the…
Chennai: MGM Healthcare and MGM Cancer Institute have launched a master health and vaccination package for blood donors to encourage blood donation and monitor the donors’ health. The initiative was made during the observance of World Blood Donor Day 2026. The package was launched by managing director Dr Prashanth Rajagopalan along with the hospital’s chief…
You may feel slightly depressed, and it can come without a clear reason. The Moon sits in a pressure zone for you today, and Saturn throws small hurdles, missed calls, slow approvals, or a plan that keeps getting postponed.Don’t take it personally. Treat the day like a patchy road. You slow down, you steer carefully,…
