Panaji: The Bombay high court has dismissed a review plea filed by Goa Foundation against its May 7 order on Goa’s mining dump policy.The policy allows iron ore from mining dumps to be returned to former leaseholders without auction.In its May 7 order, the high court had dismissed Goa Foundation’s PIL challenging the policy. The…
The river has submerged all 86 ghats, with floodwater moving into adjoining lanes and low-lying localities. The river has submerged all 86 ghats, with floodwater moving into adjoining lanes and low-lying localities. The river has submerged all 86 ghats, with floodwater moving into adjoining lanes and low-lying localities. The river has submerged all 86 ghats,…
A postgraduate student of environmental science, Inkster sorts city’s waste at the Ranip centre of Paryavaran Mitra Every morning, in a tin-roofed shed, 21-year-old Samuel Inkster reaches into piles of discarded plastic. The bottles are crusted with betel juice, sticky with spit and sometimes still filled with remnants of gutka. There are half-eaten snacks and…
Chandigarh: A 22-year-old man was found dead with a gunshot wound inside his car in Sector 17 on Saturday night. The deceased, Ajay Gill, was a resident of Ludhiana and a student at a local university. He was staying in Kharar, Mohali.According to police, Ajay came to Chandigarh with a friend and attended a party…
A worker removes parts of the vertical parking lot on Pune’s JM Road Pune: The PMC has finally started the demolition of multi-storeyed parking located at JM road near Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj garden. The facility was not been in use for the last many years.The proposal to demolish the entire structure was sanctioned last month…
One of the persons accused in the spurious liquor case Surat/Rajkot: hree more people undergoing treatment after allegedly consuming spurious liquor in Bhavnagar died on Saturday, taking the death toll to 12.In Bhavnagar, Avinash Parmar (55) and Hardik Kilji (35) died at Sir T Hospital, while Sanjay Dodiya (37), a Gujarat Industrial Security Force (GISF)…
Silchar: Police seized 70,000 suspected Yaba tablets valued at more than Rs 7 crore and arrested two persons during a raid in Dakshin Krishnapur, within the jurisdiction of Silchar police station, on Friday evening.Acting on a tip-off, a police team raided a rented house in the Rahimer Dokan area of Dakshin Krishnapur village and recovered…
Lucknow: In a freak accident, four people, including a three-year-old girl, were injured after a tree branch near their house came into contact with a 132-kV transmission line, triggering a high-voltage surge that caused a blast in electrical appliances and other household items in Sultanpur’s Awas Vikas area.The incident occurred near a water tank in…
Rajkot: Porbandar Cybercrime police registered an FIR against an unidentified individual for creating a fake Instagram account to impersonate and defame a 20-year-old woman college student.The complainant, a resident of a village in Porbandar district and a final-year BCA student, approached the police after discovering that her identity had been stolen and an unauthorized profile…
Under the aegis of the Rajasthan Cycling Association, the 23rd State-Level MTV Cycling Championship was held in Bikaner on Saturday Bikaner: Under the aegis of the Rajasthan Cycling Association, the 23rd State-Level MTV Cycling Championship was held on the track near the overbridge. The competition began at 7:30 am.Rajasthan Cycling Association treasurer Madan Lal flagged…
