Clara LewisMumbai: Maharashtra’s forest department has vehemently opposed a proposal by a BJP worker, forwarded to it by the state govt’s revenue department, to set up a university and an integrated township inside Borivli’s Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), the world’s most unique urban forest. On another proposal by the BJP worker to change the…
S Rajesh Kumar and P Viswanathan CHENNAI: As many as 19 MLAs from TVK and two Congress legislators — S Rajesh Kumar and P Viswanathan — are set to be sworn in as ministers on Thursday by governor R V Arlekar at Lok Bhavan.The expansion comes 12 days after chief minister C Joseph Vijay and…
HMWSSB general manager Saggam Anantha Laxmi Kumar Hyderabad: HMWSSB general manager Saggam Anantha Laxmi Kumar, 58, arrested in a disproportionate assets case on Tuesday, allegedly amassed most of his wealth over the past 15 years, according to ACB officials.Investigators said Kumar’s wife is a homemaker, and his two daughters are unemployed. “Most of the disproportionate…
Barakar: Bulldozers moved into the Balitore area in Kulti on Tuesday as railway authorities began demolishing houses allegedly built on railway land, triggering protests from residents, reports Mohammad Asif.Locals claimed nearly 400 families had been living on the land for decades. Residents alleged that RPF personnel asked them to vacate immediately before the demolition began….
Margao: Sanguem MLA Subhash Phal Dessai on Wednesday said that he has connected every remote village in the constituency with a motorable road during his tenure .He made the statement during the launch of hot-mixing of a road at Mangal, a hilltop hamlet in the Cavre-Pirla panchayat area.“There were no roads to many remote villages…
Ahmedabad: Principal chief commissioner of income tax, Gujarat, Satish Sharma on Wednesday said the new Income Tax Act, 2025, implemented from April 1, will make tax compliance simpler and more transparent for taxpayers.He said the I-T department will conduct 18 outreach programmes across 14 districts in Gujarat to create awareness about the new law among…
LUDHIANA: A 29-year-old woman working in the music industry was allegedly shot dead and her body thrown into a canal in Punjab’s Ludhiana district, police said on Thursday. Three accused have been arrested in connection with the murder.The victim, identified as Yashinder Kaur, had been reported missing on May 13 after she left home to…
Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday announced free travel in Punjab Roadways buses for students appearing in the NEET examination from June 20 to 22.Sharing the announcement on X, Mann said students appearing for the examination would only need to show their admit cards to avail free travel.“Many poor children appear for the…
A CBI team on Saturday carried out searches in college teacher Manisha Mandhare’s flat in Sukhsagarnagar near Katraj Pune: CBI officials on Wednesday visited Modern College in Shivajinagar and inspected the desk, drawer and locker used by junior college teacher Manisha Mandhare, who was arrested in the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak case on May 16….
Lucknow: The state govt on Wed appointed Justice Ram Autar Singh, a retired judge of Allahabad high court, as the chairman of the dedicated backward classes commission for determining reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in the state’s three-tier Panchayati Raj institutions in view of the forthcoming rural local bodies polls.There are four members in…
