BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Yadav on Sunday ordered suspension of Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve field director Gaurav Chaudhary and in-charge assistant conservator of forests Fateh Singh Ninama for negligence over the deaths of 10 wild elephants in Umaria district. He also ordered the constitution of an Elephant Task Force.While reviewing the jumbo deaths in Bandhavgarh…
AYODHAYA: A court in UP’s Ambedkar Nagar has ordered reopening of a murder case against eight policemen in connection with the custodial death of a 37-year-old man in 2021. Chief judicial magistrate Sudha Yadav based her order on injury marks documented in the postmortem report, rejecting the police’s final report, which claimed that Ziauddin died…
Representative Image (Credit: Lexica generated Image) VIJAYAWADA: A toxic gas leak at Royal Marine Shrimp Processing Unit at Nizampatnam in Bapatla of Andhra Pradesh, left 107 workers struggling with respiratory issues Sunday, reports Madhu Rasala.The accident occurred at Gokarna Mutt facility of the company, where workers mistakenly combined hydrochloric acid with sodium hypochlorite, commonly used…
Prime Minister narendra Modi (File Image) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday said decline in tuberculosis incidence is an outcome of dedicated and innovative efforts, and asserted that “we will keep working towards a tuberculosis-free India” through a collective spirit. His remarks came after health minister J P Nadda stated in a post that…
Delhi’s air quality worst in over 9 months NEW DELHI: Delhi’s air quality sharply worsened on Sunday as calm winds and low mercury impacted the dispersion of pollutants. Within 24 hours, the Air Quality Index (AQI) rose from 316 on Saturday to 382, placing it in the higher end of the ‘very poor’ category. This…
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah unveiled Sunday BJP’s manifesto for the Jharkhand assembly elections, promising a uniform civil code (UCC) for the state while exempting tribal communities from its implementation. He accused illegal Bangladeshi immigrants of grabbing tribal land “by marrying tribal girls through false pretensions”. “The tribal population is dwindling due to…
Militants attacked Srinagar’s Tourist Reception Centre and weekly Sunday market with a grenade, injuring twelve. SRINAGAR: At least 12 people were wounded when terrorists hurled a grenade in a bustling roadside Sunday market near the heavily guarded Tourist Reception Centre (TRC) in central Srinagar. The explosion triggered panic among shoppers and sent vendors and bystanders…
NEW DELHI: In a language war of sorts, CPM deputy leader in Rajya Sabha John Brittas on Sunday raised objections to junior rail and food processing minister Ravneet Singh writing official responses to him in Hindi. “In a compelling gesture of protest”, Brittas has written to the minister in Malayalam.The minister in his written replies…
NEW DELHI: NDA allies — TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu and JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar — should take note of Muslim sentiments and not allow the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 to be passed in Parliament, the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind said Sunday, stepping up its campaign against the passage of the proposed legislation, which is at present…
Donald Trump on Sunday fired salvos at the Democrats over their disagreements regarding the presidential candidate that ultimately led Joe Biden to back off from the race. The Republican accused the Democrats of stealing the election from the US president. “Nobody knows where the other guy is. Where the hell is he? Where is Biden?…They…
