LUCKNOW: Deoria district in eastern Uttar Pradesh needed someone to put into practice the IIT Kanpur tagline — “Lead me from darkness to light”. In an extraordinary convergence of talent, the top four helming the backward district now are all IIT graduates. Deoria watches with hope for a brighter future.The key figures responsible for Deoria’s…
NEW DELHI: The Railway Board has constituted a multi-disciplinary committee to look into the grievances of the loco pilots and train managers (guards) raised by their unions. The panel will submit a report within a month. This comes after recent train accidents and opposition MPs, including Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, rasing the issues of loco…
KOLKATA: The Calcutta HC has restrained Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, newly elected Trinamool MLAs Sayantika Banerjee and Reyat Hossain Sarkar, and ex-MP Kunal Ghosh from “making any defamatory or incorrect statement by way of publication and on social platforms” against governor CV Ananda Bose till August 14, when it hears the latter’s defamation suit next.Justice…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday found itself engulfed in a chaotic environ as a medley of senior advocates and lawyers appearing for various parties attempted to speak in one voice as soon as it took up a petition filed by West Bengal govt challenging a Calcutta HC order cancelling appointment of 25,000 teachers and…
President Joe Biden returned to the campaign trail in Nevada on Tuesday with a speech to a crowd of black voters majorly at the NAACP national convention. It was his first political address since the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Biden expressed gratitude for Trump’s well-being, calling for a crucial national discussion on…
NEW DELHI: Critiqued by Supreme Court on Tuesday for breaching fairness norms, Justice L Narasimha Reddy declined to continue as the one-man commission to inquire into alleged power sector irregularities caused by K Chandrashekar Rao-led BRS government. Telangana government said it will notify a new chairperson by Monday, reports .A bench of Chief Justice D…
NEW DELHI: Three working days after the Supreme Court collegium recommended two judges to be appointed to the top court, law ministry on Tuesday notified the elevation of Justice R Mahadevan, a judge of Madras high court, and Justice N Kotiswar Singh, chief justice of J&K and Ladakh HC, as judges of the apex court.In…
NEW DELHI: Continuing its crackdown on misleading advertisements, Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has imposed Rs 10 lakh fine on a company selling an ayurvedic product claiming it as “magic oil” which when applied makes one “fit even without any surgery or physiotherapy.”The CCPA headed by Union consumer affairs secretary Nidhi Khare has ordered discontinuation…
MADURAI: An armed gang Tuesday hacked to death a Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK) functionary during his morning walk in an upscale locality of Madurai. Police said the gang that murdered C Balasubramanian (48) was hired by his relatives over a property dispute as well as matrimonial issues. Six persons, including two of the NTK neta’s…
NAVI MUMBAI: A thief, filled with remorse after realizing the locked house he had broken into in Neral in Karjat taluka belonged to the late Marathi poet Narayan Surve, returned the stolen LED TV. He also left a handwritten apology note before the poet’s family members returned. The burglar’s act came to light on Sunday…
