Gorakhpur: Gorakhnath Temple will organise a week-long tribute programme from Sep 24 to 30 to mark the 57th death anniversary of Brahmaleen Mahant Digvijaynath and the 12th death anniversary of Brahmaleen Mahant Avaidyanath.Temple chief priest Yogi Kamalnath said the annual event will feature religious discourses, conferences on contemporary issues, tribute meetings and community programmes.A week-long…
Ahmedabad: Mere knowledge of the subsistence of an earlier marriage cannot validate a second marriage, nor can it cure its voidness, Gujarat High Court observed while declaring a woman’s marriage null and void after finding that her husband’s first marriage was still subsisting.The court set aside a Vadodara family court order that had rejected the…
Hisar: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken note of a complaint alleging that a man was denied a meeting with then Hansi SP Amit Yashvardhan after he refused to surrender his personal mobile phone. The commission has sought an action-taken report from the Haryana DGP within four weeks.Advocate Naveen Bamel, the complainant, said…
MSEDCL’s Pune zone had set a target to recover Rs1,254 crore by Sept Pune: Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (MSEDCL) has set a target to recover Rs682 crore in outstanding dues by Sept 30.Dinesh Agrawal, executive director (commercial), MSEDCL, who is in charge of overseeing the Pune and Baramati circles, has instructed officials to…
Representatives from around 2,000 units participated in the meeting Surat: Owners of embroidery units in the city held a meeting on Monday to discuss workers’ demands for a paid weekly off and restrictions on working hours, with representatives from around 2,000 units participating.The meeting was organised by the Textile Embroidery Jobwork Association of Surat (Tejas)….
Shillong: Hynniewtrep Youths’ Council (HYC) has expressed “grave concern” over the reported detention in Assam of 27 Bangladeshi nationals who allegedly entered India through Meghalaya’s Dawki sector.It condemned the transit of the illegal entrants through the hill state. “This raises serious and disturbing questions about the effectiveness of border surveillance and the preparedness of the…
The court noted that the victim’s educational records established her age to be a minor. (Representative image) LUCKNOW: A special POCSO court in Bahraich on Monday sentenced a 16-year-old convict, who was a minor at the time of the offence, to 20 years’ rigorous imprisonment for raping a 15-year-old girl and causing her to become…
Rajkot: Security agencies were put on high alert after an email threatening to blow up the Somnath Temple was received on Monday morning, prompting an intensive search of the temple premises and surrounding areas.After an alert was issued by the state police control room, Gir Somnath district police rushed to the temple and launched a…
The scheme covers state-run schools across all 41 districts Jaipur: Nearly a month after announcing a Rs 12,500-crore plan to overhaul infrastructure in govt schools, Rajasthan govt Monday released the detailed breakdown of the proposed works.Under the three-year roadmap, the state will construct 3,587 new school buildings, add 83,783 classrooms, undertake major repairs across 22,589…
NEW DELHI: Govt Monday asked people to verify their mobile connections through the Sanchar Saathi Portal (http://www.sancharsaathi.gov.in), which allows them to check all numbers issued in their name and block those that are unnecessary or not genuinely theirs. The advice from the dept of telecom (DoT) came after a cybercrime probe led to a point…
