TIRUPATI: Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) has banned political and hate speeches at Tirumala and warned of initiating legal action against the violators.The newly constituted TTD trust board headed by chairman BR Naidu passed a resolution to this effect at the maiden trust board meeting held at Tirumala recently. The resolution No 93 passed by the…
NEW DELHI: Every fifth death in road accidents was a pedestrian and 45% of all fatalities were those riding two-wheelers in 2023. In a first official statement, Union road transport minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said“over 1.72 lakh people died” in road crashes last year and around 35,000 of them were pedestrians.At an event in…
PUNE: Social activist Baba Adhav on Saturday withdrew his hunger strike to safeguard constitutional principles after Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray promised to scale up agitation for a fair election procedure. Earlier, Adhav had raised doubts over the fairness of assembly poll results and criticised govt for excessive use of money power in the…
GUWAHATI: Manipur CM N Biren Singh said on Saturday the state’s historical significance spans 2,000 years, distinguishing it from Mizoram’s relatively recent administrative history as a former district of Assam.Singh’s statement followed a series of recent exchanges between the Manipur govt and Mizoram’s opposition party MNF, as well as Mizoram CM Lalduhoma. Speaking at a…
RAIPUR: First Sadak, now Bijli. Basic needs are beating Maoist terror on the home turf of dreaded commander Hidma in Bijapur.A cluster of villages some 15km from Puwarti, Hidma’s place of birth, finally see the light as electricity arrives for the first time since Independence. Chhutwahi village was the latest to be hooked up to…
SHIMLA: The Shimla district court on Saturday dismissed an appeal challenging the municipal commissioner’s order of demolishing top three illegally built floors of a mosque in Sanjauli. The All Himachal Muslims Organisation (AHMO) had filed the plea, seeking a stay on the demolition order.Shimla municipal commissioner Bhupender Kumar Attri had on Oct 5 ordered the…
NEW DELHI: Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh on Saturday said the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 is in the news these days because of certain oral observations made in 2022 by then Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud that have since opened a “Pandora’s box”.On May 20, 2022, the top…
PUNE: Eleven assembly poll candidates, including NCP (SP)’s Baramati nominee Yugendra Pawar, have submitted applications to district administration seeking verification of microcontrollers of 137 EVM sets used in their constituencies during the recently concluded Maharashtra elections and have collectively paid Rs 66.6 lakh for the process. Among other key candidates who have applied for verification…
PUNE: NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday said some people had raised red flags on possibility of “30% vote manipulation” ahead of the recent assembly polls in Maharashtra, and the election outcome prima facie showed there was truth to the claims.“Before elections, some people made a presentation that it is possible (to increase votes…
M K Stalin (Picture credit: MK Stalin X handle) NEW DELHI: Stating that a state should not arbitrarily reject a scheme for petty political gains, Centre Saturday urged Tamil Nadu govt to reconsider its decision to reject PM’s Vishwakarma scheme, which aims to “uplift traditional artisans and craftspeople”. Minister of state for skill development and…
