NEW DELHI: As counter-Naxal forces brace to meet the March 2026 deadline set by home minister Amit Shah for ending Left-wing extremist (LWE) violence, the CRPF has augmented its strength in the Maoist bastions of south Bastar (Chhattisgarh) by deploying an additional 4,000 personnel.The force’s four battalions, comprising 4,000 troops, were recently ordered to leave…
MUMBAI: Investors on Dalal Street will have the option to select from at least 16 IPOs to invest in the coming week, making it one of the busiest weeks for primary offers in recent years. Together, these 16 IPOs are aiming to raise nearly Rs 9,000 crore from the market, data on Chittorgarh, a web…
NEW DELHI: After a week marked by flip-flops over forging an alliance in Haryana, Sunday was marked by a ‘take it or leave it’ offer from Congress to AAP. A likelihood of a tie-up in Haryana between the two parties is hinged on AAP accepting Congress’s twin conditions on number of seats and specific constituencies.Congress…
NEW DELHI: Twenty-one cities including Greater Mumbai, Varanasi, Agra, Lucknow, Kanpur, Dehradun, Dhanbad, Trichy and Tuticorin have reduced the concentration of critical air pollutant PM10 by more than 40% in 2023-24 compared to 2017-18 levels, according to the latest compilation of data from 131 cities made by the environment ministry.Though these 21 cities have met…
NEW DELHI: High-polluting cities such as Delhi, Ghaziabad, Noida, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Nashik and Kota recorded improvement in terms of reducing PM10 to an extent, but their levels remain quite far from the acceptable limit, as per data released by Union environment ministry. Delhi reduced the level of PM10 from 241 g/m3 in 2017-18 to…
NASHIK: Police arrested a 30-year-old man for allegedly raping and murdering a 13-year-old girl in Chopda taluka of Jalgaon district on Saturday evening.He was arrested based on the description provided by the deceased girl’s younger sister, who witnessed the crime. The man had killed the 13-year-old by hitting her on the head with a stone…
RAIPUR: Four workers were killed and one sustained injuries after a hopper filled with coal collapsed on them at an alumina refinery in Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district on Sunday. As per preliminary information, a steep hopper mounted on a steel tower filled with coal fell on the labourers working right under it.The accident occurred at Maa…
KOLKATA: A cautious Trinamool Congress on Sunday tried to rein in discordant voices within the party and said resignation was Jawhar Sircar‘s personal prerogative, to which it had nothing to add.But the party also agreed with Sircar’s “anxieties” and observations”, saying while “course correction” was the need of the hour, foot soldiers would fight the…
DEHRADUN: The Joshimath-Malari-Niti national highway (NH107-B), which connects to the Indo-China border, opened late on Sunday after remaining blocked for vehicular movement since Friday due to recurring landslides near Lata village, about 26 km from Joshimath.As a result of the landslides, traffic on the strategic route was severely impacted, particularly restricting the movement of defence…
MADURAI: Five members of a family were killed and three others injured when their car rammed into the rear of a parked TNSTC govt bus in the early hours of Sunday near Uchipuli in Ramanathapuram district.The deceased were identified as Rajesh, 33, of Thangachimadam in Rameswaram, his two children, Darshana Rani, 8, and Pranavika, 4,…
