Patiala: In a crackdown on illegal mining, the Ropar administration on Monday claimed to have seized seven poclain machines in one night in the Sainsowal-Sawara-Harsa Bela area of the Nangal division.Acting on the directions of Ropar deputy commissioner Aaditya Dachalwal and SSP Maninder Singh, a team comprising Nangal SDM Sachin Pathak, CIA inspector Mandeep Singh…
Lucknow: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said that accountability be fixed of concerned officials in cases of undue delay in resolving cases of public grievances.The CM made the statement during Janata Darshan while listening to cases related to revenue and police. He forwarded the applications to the concerned officials, directing that public grievances be…
NEW DELHI: Seeking to protect the biodiversity hotspot in Agasthyamalai landscape from depredation through illegal settlements, Supreme Court has ordered Tamil Nadu govt to prepare within a month a comprehensive time-bound action plan to evict thousands of encroachers, some of whom have been settled there for decades.Warning that failure to ensure compliance would invite administrative…
“Indian equity markets are expected to open on a negative note, with Gift Nifty trading at 23,260, down by 180 points. Asia-Pacific equities traded mixed in early trade following a volatile session on Wall Street, as strength in technology stocks was offset by persistent geopolitical uncertainties. In the previous session, The Nifty 50 remained under…
Taylor Swift is officially collaborating with the hgihly anticipated animated film ‘Toy Story 5’.The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter will be returning to her country roots for a brand-new original song titled ‘I Knew It, I Knew You’, set to be released on Friday ahead of the film’s theatrical debut later this month. In a social media announcement,…
Students can apply for CBSE re-evaluation and issue verification via new online portal NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has finally activated its Class 12 verification and re-evaluation portal after a one-day delay, allowing students to apply for correction of issues in scanned answer books and seek re-evaluation of answers.The facility was…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Virat Kohli and Rajat Patidar (BCCI/IPL Photo) IPL-2026 was a season of extremes. A 15-year-old rewrote batting records as if they were practice drills, Virat Kohli discovered new gears at 37 and Rajat Patidar joined an exclusive club of captains with back-to-back titles. Batters routinely made 200-plus totals look inadequate, yet a handful…
When Virat Kohli said, “We don’t have seven home games; we probably have fourteen,” after Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s win over Gujarat Titans in the IPL 2026 final in Ahmedabad on Sunday, his words reflected a reality that played out across the country.Celebrations erupted not just in Bengaluru, but across Karnataka, even though the final was…
A group of 39 bonded labourers from Chhattisgarh are finally free after a dramatic rescue CHENNAI: Thirty-nine bonded labourers, belonging to 15 families from Chhattisgarh’s Janjgir-Champa district, were rescued from a goshala (cattle shelter) in Devandavakkam village of Tiruvallur district on Monday. The victims had been lured to the facility with false promises of good…
KOLKATA: First-time MLA Swapan Dasgupta, for long the intellectual voice championing BJP’s vision for his native Bengal, was among the 35 new ministers sworn in Monday. This took the strength of chief minister Suvendu Adhikari’s government to 41.Nine MLAs from north Bengal and six women took oath, raising the number of representatives from the northern…
