NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday admitted a writ petition by Nagaland govt challenging the Centre’s one-and-a-half-year-old order denying sanction for prosecution of 30 Armymen who were named in the FIR lodged by state police for killing 13 civilians in a botched-up operation to ambush militants in Mon district on Dec 4, 2021.Moving the petition,…
CHENNAI: Exposing more tentacles of the gold smuggling racket at Chennai airport, government has suspended an undisclosed number of immigration officials for their suspected links with the smugglers.A top Intelligence Bureau official said three of the officials had been placed under suspension. But airport sources told TOI that many more officers have faced action.“The number…
The red-rooted temple stands on Sunderdhunga glacier BAGESHWAR: A self-styled godman quietly built an unauthorised temple on government land at over 5,000 meters (16,500 feet) on the Sunderdhunga glacier in Bageshwar, Uttarakhand. Baba Yogi Chaitanya Akash claimed to have received divine instructions to construct the temple at the eco-sensitive spot high up in the mountains.Mahendra…
BAGESHWAR: A self-styled godman quietly built an unauthorised temple on government land at over 5,000 meters (16,500 feet) on the Sunderdhunga glacier in Bageshwar, Uttarakhand. Baba Yogi Chaitanya Akash claimed to have received divine instructions to construct the temple at the eco-sensitive spot high up in the mountains.Mahendra Singh Dhami, a villager, said, “The Baba…
PUNE: Probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar had in Aug 2022 simultaneously applied for disability certificates for locomotor disability from District Civil Hospital, Aundh, and Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital, Pimpri, both in Pune, report Nisha Nambiar & Swati Shinde Gole.She did so despite having secured disability certificates for low vision in 2018 and for mental depression…
MUMBAI: HUL is selling its water purification business to US-based water technology company AO Smith‘s Indian arm for an enterprise value of Rs 601 crore ($72 million). The move comes as the FMCG major looks to sharpen its focus on core categories, HUL said in a statement on Monday. It is also aligned with parent…
NAWADA/VADODARA: Bihar police arrested three youths on Monday after a video purportedly showing them waving a Palestinian flag ahead of a Muharram procession in Nawada went viral, while police in Gujarat questioned two minor boys in Savli near Vadodara in a similar case from Sunday.The Bihar youths were charged with attempting to disturb communal harmony…
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday assured central assistance to states affected by floods as he spoke to chief ministers of Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat to take stock of the situation.So far, 109 human lives have been lost in Assam due to floods and nearly six lakh displaced in several districts….
PATNA: The desire to earn respect from family and society made a 34-year-old man in Bihar take a bizarre route, but his gravy train was derailed by railway police, who uncovered his fake kidnapping plot.On Monday morning, railway police received a complaint that a newly appointed rural development officer was dragged off a train into…
RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh high court has held that individuals migrating from one state to another cannot carry their caste status along, even if they are recognised as a Scheduled Tribe (ST) in both states. The ruling came from Justice Narendra Kumar Vyas, who highlighted that the recognition of a caste as an ST or OBC is…
