Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah BENGALURU: Snehamayi Krishna, one of three petitioners seeking to prosecute Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah in the Mysore Urban Development Authority (Muda) land allotment case, filed on Wednesday a petition at Laxmipuram police station in Mysuru accusing the CM’s wife, BM Parvathi, and the CM’s associate, M Lakshmana, a Congress spokesperson, of “fabricating”…
NEW DELHI: In a bid to create plug-and-play infrastructure for industry to set up factories, the cabinet committee on economic affairs Wednesday cleared 12 new industrial cities with an investment of Rs 28,600 crore, with the largest one, spread over 6,000 acre, to come up near Dighi port in poll-bound Maharashtra. At least three of…
NEW DELHI: The govt on Wednesday approved the proposal for the third batch of ascending e-auctions for 730 FM radio channels in 234 new cities, with an estimated reserve price of around Rs 785 crore under the Private FM Radio Phase III Policy. Many of the approved towns are in aspirational districts and left-wing affected…
KOLKATA: Bengal is not Bangladesh, Mamata Banerjee declared on Wednesday amid the worst spell of public unrest in her three stints as CM. She asked PM Narendra Modi “not to play with fire”, suggesting that much of what had happened since the Aug 9 rape-murder of a junior doctor at RG Kar hospital was the…
BHATPARA: Two men were wounded during BJP‘s 12-hour Bengal bandh on Wednesday as unidentified shooters fired at least six rounds at the car of a member of the party’s youth wing at Bhatpara in 24 North Parganas district, about 33km from Kolkata. The bandh was called in protest against the violence in Howrah and Kolkata…
BAREILLY: A forest officer was suspended on Wednesday for organising a controversial dance event in the Ludhori range inside Dudhwa Tiger Reserve (DTR), which sparked public outrage when videos of the performance, deemed obscene, were circulated on social media platforms. The event, held on Monday during Krishna Janmashtami celebrations, led to protests from local residents…
NEW DELHI: Just weeks after the Olympics, Paris opened the Paralympic Games on Wednesday with a ceremony outside a stadium. French President Emmanuel Macron officially declared the Games open in a ceremony on the Champs-Elysées avenue to Place de la Concorde.More than 4,000 athletes with physical, visual, and intellectual impairments will compete in 22 sports…
VISAKHAPATNAM: The lives of 17 workers who perished in the Aug 21 chemical blast in an industrial unit in Andhra Pradesh’s Anakapalli district could have been saved if the leakage of the deadly chemical, methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE), could have been stopped in time.According to an official report of the state govt’s factories department available…
NEW DELHI: Gujarat has witnessed heavy rainfall, resulting in the loss of 19 more lives due to rain-related incidents, bringing the total death toll to 26. Approximately 17,800 people have been evacuated from flood-affected areas as the state continues to experience heavy showers for the fourth consecutive day on Wednesday, according to officials. Among the…
NEW DELHI: An encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir‘s Kupwara district on Wednesday. The operation is under way in Kupwara’s Tangdhar area.The exchange of firing began at the Khushal Post in the Tangdhar area, near the Line of Control, security forces told news agency PTI.There are no reports of…
