Kolkata: Encroachment on public passages inside market complexes will not be tolerated, state urban development and municipal affairs minister Agnimitra Paul said on Tuesday after inspecting VIP Market in Kankurgachhi.The visit was part of an ongoing cleanliness drive, during which Paul expressed dissatisfaction over sanitation and maintenance. She said floors required immediate repair and described…
Saini told officials not to wait for complaints to be filed and to conduct regular field inspections to identify roads requiring immediate repair or reconstruction Gurgaon: Chief minister Nayab Singh Saini on Monday directed officials to prioritise the completion of all road repairs and reconstruction works in a time-bound manner.Presiding over a meeting of the…
Enumerators conducting door to door survey in DLF 4 Gurgaon: MCG commissioner and chief census officer Pradeep Dahiya on Friday warned against negligence in census duties, saying laxity and delays could lead to action against employees.During a review meeting at the MCG office, Dahiya went over the progress of field surveys, employee attendance and pace…
AAP leader Sanjeev Arora (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday arrested Punjab minister Sanjeev Arora after carrying out fresh searches against the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and several others allegedly linked to him in connection with a money laundering probe.Also Read | ED raids Punjab minister Sanjeev Arora’s home in…
NEW DELHI: With anaemia continuing to affect nearly one in two adolescent girls and women despite long-running supplementation programmes, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the Gates Foundation have launched a Rs. 1-crore Grand Challenge to develop attractive, iron-rich food products that women would be willing to consume every day.The initiative seeks proposals…
Panaji: The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) will constitute a review committee to examine all National Education Policy (NEP)-aligned textbooks from Classes I to VIII for content refinements, typographical errors and continuity across grades.SCERT director Meghana Shetgaonkar said the decision was taken two months ago by the council’s steering committee after the…
Jaipur: After orders for production curtailment, solar power developers in the state are now being denied permission to commission projects worth Rs 2,000 crore (500MW) due to policy ambiguities surrounding Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS).Industry stakeholders said the state energy department’s rules for mandatory battery storage alongside solar plants are being interpreted negatively to hold…
A 25-year-old woman told a court she wished to confess to murdering her parents and sister BENGALURU: A 25-year-old woman accused of murdering her parents and younger sister last month told a magistrate’s court Thursday that she wanted to voluntarily confess to the crime.Asked by the court whether she understood the legal consequences of making…
Politicians are usually the ones telling a country what its own history means. Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, argued that this was not really their job to begin with. “My opinion is that politicians should be humble in the face of history,” he said. “And whenever history is a matter of debate, it should…
Gujarat rains wreck havoc NEW DELHI: Around 1,200 people have been rescued and hundreds more relocated as heavy rains battered south Gujarat, with Umbergaon taluka in Valsad district receiving over 1,100 mm of rainfall in just 16 hours, officials said on Thursday.One rain-related death was reported in Tapi district. The Indian Air Force and Coast…
