The case involves Sagar Fultaria, who was arrested in July 2025 by the Morbi police on charges of land grabbing and forgery Ahmedabad: Nearly 10 months after the arrest of an accused in connection with a land-grab scam in Morbi, the Gujarat high court has held his arrest illegal and ordered him to be set…
Ludhiana: Local authorities are deploying emergency water tankers to desperate neighbourhoods as an uncoordinated mix of unscheduled blackouts and administrative gridlock over automated prepaid electricity meters cripples municipal pumping stations.It’s a summer of punishing heat in this industrial hubs of Punjab. Ludhiana’s municipal grid relies on 1,400-odd deep-well tube pumps to extract more than 600…
Chandigarh’s attempts to convert leasehold properties to freehold Chandigarh: In a city where concrete ambitions often collide with a carefully preserved legacy, the Chandigarh administration has made its position unambiguous: No development will come at the cost of its architectural soul. As sweeping amendments to the Chandigarh Master Plan (CMP-2031) are pushed forward, officials have…
Pune: A 21-year-old college student, Mahesh Gajanan Mankar of Akola, died after a four-wheeler ran over him near the Wadgaon Bridge on the Katraj-Dehu Road bypass around 1.15am on Thursday.Senior inspector Asaram Shete of Narhe police said, “Mankar was pursuing his higher studies from a city college. He was riding his motorcycle towards Warje from…
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday met the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi and held extensive discussions on the state’s future growth trajectory, infrastructure expansion, and long-term economic development roadmap Guwahati: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday met Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi to chart out the…
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party corporator-elect Lalit Kishore Tiwari will be administered the oath of office on Sunday, days after a Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court froze the financial and administrative powers of mayor Sushma Kharkwal over the delay.On Thursday, the HC restrained the mayor from exercising financial and administrative authority after she failed to…
Jaisalmer: Union home and cooperative affairs minister Amit Shah Friday honoured BSF deputy commandant Ravindra Rathore, deployed at the Sriganganagar Sector of BSF Rajasthan Frontier, along with three other BSF personnel and officers, with the gallantry medal at the Border Security Force Investiture Ceremony and Rustamji Memorial Lecture programme in New Delhi. The gallantry medal…
NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), the online satirical movement, claimed another setback on Saturday after founder Abhijeet Dipke said the outfit’s official website had been taken down by the Centre, days after its main X handle was withheld in India following a legal demand.However, till the filing of this report there had been no…
A deadly gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China has killed at least 82 people, with rescue operations still under way and authorities launching a nationwide crackdown on illegal mining activities after the country’s worst mining disaster in 17 years, AFP reported.The blast took place on Friday evening at the Liushenyu coal mine…
NEW DELHI: State-owned Oil India Limited (OIL) has successfully unlocked a new gas-bearing pay zone in Rajasthan’s Dandewala field, with a flow of nearly 25,000 standard cubic metres per day, petroleum and natural gas minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Saturday.Congratulating OIL on its technological excellence, Puri said on social media that the discovery by…
