Industrial areas of the city remain under close watch following the April 13 protest Noida: After Haryana and UP, labour activists taken into custody for allegedly inciting violence during the industrial workers’ protest in the city on April 13 were planning similar agitations in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Assam and Tripura, officers…
Chennai: School education minister A Rajmohan on Wednesday defended his cabinet colleague S Keerthana amid criticism over her recent visit to a govt school and her interaction with a student.Rajmohan told reporters that ministerial inspections of schools were a long-standing practice and that the industries minister had not recorded the video herself. He said there…
Noida: A man in his 30s was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head inside a locked SUV in the Ecotech 1 area of Greater Noida on Sunday night, in what police suspect was a suicide.A patrolling police response vehicle (PRV) spotted the Mahindra Scorpio on an isolated stretch near Gharbara village. The…
Kolkata: The mere involvement of a vehicle in an accident cannot invite criminal charges under animal cruelty laws unless there is evidence of intent to cause harm, the Calcutta High Court has held while quashing a criminal case against a Howrah man accused of running over a stray dog.The single bench of Justice Ajoy Kumar…
Mumbai: Five years after Father Stan Swamy died at a Mumbai hospital while in judicial custody, a memorial for him at a church in Bandra on Sunday saw civil rights activists trace his activism and recall his days in custody.The 84-year-old Jesuit priest and Adivasi rights activist died on July 5, 2021, nine months after…
Archaeologists working in western Slovakia did not expect the perimeter ditch of an early farming settlement to become one of Europe’s most unsettling burial puzzles. But as excavation layers were removed from the Neolithic site near modern-day Vráble, what emerged was not a typical cemetery. It was a boundary feature filled with disarticulated, headless human…
For centuries, humans have tried to imagine how the rest of the animal kingdom sees the world, but we have always been limited by the three-colour palette of our own eyes. While we can take still photographs that mimic these perspectives, capturing the world in motion has remained a technical hurdle. Unlike traditional filming methods,…
Chandigarh: Haryana recorded an overall voter turnout of 55% in the elections held across seven civic bodies of the state on Sunday. The Sonipat municipal corporation reported the lowest polling, while the Sampla municipal committee in Rohtak district recorded the highest voter turnout.The fate of 777 candidates, including 29 contenders for mayoral posts and 38…
Hyderabad: Reacting sharply to the AP deputy chief minister Pawan Kalyan’s remarks on Telangana is not Jagir (private estate) of anyone, BRS working president KT Rama Rao said Telangana undoubtedly belongs to four crore of Telangana people, `sons of the soil’, who fought and sacrificed their lives for Telangana. He said in the past 12…
Jaipur : The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday issued notices to the Rajasthan govt and other authorities over alleged non-compliance of the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026, while constituting a joint committee to examine lapses and ensure enforcement.Hearing the case of Sneha Chaturvedi vs State of Rajasthan & Ors., the Central Zone Bench termed…
