KOLKATA: West Bengal assembly Monday unanimously passed a resolution against calls for division of the state, with the house witnessing a rare show of TMC-BJP bonhomie after CM Mamata Banerjee agreed to opposition politician Suvendu Adhikari’s suggestion to rephrase the proposal to one seeking “development of an undivided West Bengal“,. Monday, in fact, was a…
NEW DELHI: Blaming successive Kerala govts for their neglect of environmental factors that led to the Wayanad disaster, environment minister Bhupender Yadav on Monday said the state govt did not pay attention to “expansion of illegal human habitation and mining” in ecologically fragile areas, and kept allowing such activities over the years which led to…
AHMEDABAD: The Ahmedabad zonal unit of the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) has issued a show-cause notice to a major cryptocurrency exchange, demanding Goods and Services Tax (GST) payment of Rs 722 crore. This marks the first time the DGGI has issued such a notice to a cryptocurrency firm, setting a precedent in India’s…
MEERUT: A 19-year-old kanwariya was killed and nearly half a dozen injured during a clash between two groups of ‘dak kanwariyas’ (fast-moving devotees) along a route in Baghpat district of UP. Police said the fight happened when the groups tried to win a race in reaching their village temple in Haryana first to offer holy…
PRAYAGRAJ: Allahabad high court issued an order on Monday giving ASI another week to respond to a suit seeking an archaeological survey of Agra’s Jama Masjid and the appointment of an advocate commissioner to oversee it.The plaintiffs contend that an idol of the deity Thakur Keshavdev from the Krishna Janmabhoomi shrine that was purportedly razed…
HYDERABAD: He was declared “dead” two decades ago by a court here, after he disappeared with Rs 50 lakh following a bank fraud. On Sunday, when CBI sleuths arrested him after a lengthy and coordinated operation, he was disguised as a sadhu in a village in Tamil Nadu.But this was only one of many identities…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay Calcutta high court‘s May 22 judgment quashing inclusion of 77 communities, 75 of them Muslims, in West Bengal‘s OBC list and sought details of surveys determining their social and educational backwardness and under-representation in govt jobs requiring their inclusion in the OBC list.While agreeing to examine…
NEW DELHI: Barely two days after taking over additional charge as BSF DG, Daljit Singh Chaudhary was holding fort at the India-Bangladesh border in North 24 Parganas and Sundarbans area of West Bengal, reviewing the force’s operational preparedness in the wake of political turmoil in Bangladesh.Sources said BSF has issued a high alert to its…
KOZHIKODE: They had lived as one in the villages of Mundakkai and Puthumala before the catastrophic landslides washed them away seven days ago and mutilated their bodies so severely that they were unidentifiable even to their loved ones.Twenty-nine unidentified but complete bodies and parts of 154 bodies were interred in graves on 64 cents of…
SRINAGAR: A joint team of security forces arrested three terror associates in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district Monday and seized a cache of arms and ammunition — including an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) — from them, police said.The trio — Dawood Ahmad Dar, Imtiyaz Ahmad Reshi, and Shahid Ahmad Dar, all residents of Hassanpora Tavela —…
