CHENNAI: Chief minister M K Stalin raised a black flag and burned a copy of the delimitation bill in Namakkal to show his protest against the proposed delimitation bill, which is set to be tabled in the Parliament special session commencing today. The protest follows the “stern warning” issued to the BJP govt at the…
Hyderabad: Telangana high court on Wednesday refused to close a contempt case against finance secretary Sandeep Sultania over alleged delay in paying compensation to men and women displaced by the Mallannasagar and other reservoirs under the Kaleshwaram project.Though compensation amounts were released on April 14, the court questioned the absence of the official despite a…
Kolkata: Bengal governor RN Ravi chose a Poila Baisakh programme in Lok Bhavan on Wednesday to urge the state’s youth to be a “part of change” and underline Bengal’s “decline” over the years, prompting CM Mamata Banerjee to hit back with a “laatsaheb” barb.“Our share in the national capital has gone down from 10.6% to…
Noida protest (File Photo) NOIDA: The Uttar Pradesh government issued a statement on Wednesday, stating that as many as 45 of the 66 people arrested in connection with the unrest in Noida were not workers, with “external elements” playing a key role in inciting violence and arson during the protests. The government said it acted…
Panaji: After videos surfaced of a woman soliciting at Baga and a foreigner being offered drugs at Candolim, chief minister Pramod Sawant said that action would be taken in such instances.While backing Goa police’s efforts against drugs and prostitution, the chief minister hinted that officers could face disciplinary action if activities such as drug peddling…
Varanasi: An elderly man was killed allegedly by his son at Natthupur village in Rasra police station area of Ballia district on Wednesday. Police detained the accused after receiving a complaint from his brother. Police received information that body of Mahendra Chauhan (75) was found lying near Natthupur village. Local police reached the spot and…
Ahmedabad: An Ahmedabad woman has filed a police complaint against her brother-in-law, accusing him of a persistent campaign of harassment and intimidation conducted through family WhatsApp groups. According to the FIR registered at the local police station, the accused flooded the shared digital groups with obscene language, vulgar slurs, and explicit death threats directed at…
Chandigarh: The Chandigarh municipal corporation has finally started allotment of the newly planned works of road recarpeting after completing the entire tendering process. Though on the one side works on earlier allotments are already going on, out of the approximately dozen new tenders, two have been recently allotted to the eligible bidders. The MC has…
PUNE/MUMBAI: The CBSE Std X results declared on Wednesday saw a marginal rise in the national pass percentage to 93.7%, but it was the strong performance of the Pune region and a shift toward application-based testing that defined this year’s results.Girls outshone boys once again recording a pass percentage of 95% against 92.7% for boys….
LUCKNOW: Bodies of two minor girls were recovered during an early morning search operation on Thursday, hours after a devastating fire razed over 280 shanties in Sector 11 of Vikas Nagar on Wednesday evening.The deceased were identified as Shruti (2) and her two-month-old sister, daughters of Satish, a resident of Kashipurwa village in Barabanki district….
