Thane: Environment activist Rohit Joshi has flagged alleged lapses in Thane Municipal Corporation Tree Authority’s notice seeking public objections to the displacement of 339 trees for the MMRDA’s Kasarvadavali–Kharbao creek bridge project.According to Joshi, the notice proposes cutting 242 trees and transplanting 97. However, the project developer’s Form C application and GPS-based inventory reportedly list…
Chennai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against two income tax officials and a private company partner for demanding and accepting a Rs 9 lakh bribe to evaluate an industrial property in Ambattur.According to the FIR, Sanjay Bapurao Chinchghare, the then district valuation officer, income tax department, Chennai, and D Manjunathan,…
Hyderabad: AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday appealed to the state govt to set up dedicated anti-murder squads in the three police commissionerate limits of Hyderabad, Cyberabad and Malkajgiri.He also appealed to the youngsters to stay away from drugs and alcohol, offering to personally help addicts and their families access de-addiction centres….
Demolitions at Greenwood City in Sector 45 Gurgaon: The town and country planning department on Wednesday carried out a demolition drive in Greenwood City, Sector 45, and removed four illegal walls erected on internal roads connecting the licensed colony with an HSVP-plotted area in the same sector.Officials said the walls had obstructed the flow of…
Kolkata: Officials at IPGMER-SSKM Hospital have lodged a complaint with Bhowanipore Police Station to find out who had uploaded a prescription from the hospital’s physical medicine department that has gone viral on social media. According to the OPD prescription, a doctor has written “wife bite last night” which was causing the patient pain, swelling and…
Noida: A 13-year-old boy, who was found dead in city park days after he went missing, was allegedly killed by three of his minor friends following a dispute over Rs 3,000 that the group had earned by selling goods they had stolen together. Police have apprehended two juveniles and are searching for the third, even…
The Congress chief revealed that back-channel efforts were already underway to break the impasse Margao: Congress president Girish Chodankar on Wednesday said the party will make “all sorts of attempts” to stitch together a united opposition alliance against the ruling BJP ahead of the 2027 assembly elections, adding that fresh efforts will be made to…
Varanasi: Varanasi Range DIG Vaibhav Krishna on Wednesday suspended five police personnel, including a sub-inspector, three head constables, and a computer operator, for alleged negligence in handling a robbery case under Jalalpur police station in Jaunpur district.The action followed a complaint made on Tuesday by Akash Seth, a resident of Shakarmandi under Kotwali police station…
People transplanting paddy in a field Ahmedabad: One crop shift could tackle three farm pressures at once. Reducing rice cultivation in water-stressed districts could lower fertiliser use, groundwater extraction and methane emissions, according to a study by IIT Gandhinagar and Germany’s Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ).The reasoning is physical. Paddy rice, the crop the…
Ludhiana: Hair-oil and powder samples were confiscated on Tuesday from a Khanna salon that had sold these products as miracle cure for baldness last year and left 60 people rubbing their eyes.A joint task force of the health department officials and police raided the GTB Market salon following complaints that the business made unverified medical…
