NEW DELHI: The proposed amendments to the Waqf Act will include, judicial scrutiny to determine whether a property is a waqf asset and mandatory provision of registration of properties with district collectors for their actual valuation. Another major proposed change will to broad-base the composition of the Central Waqf Council and waqf boards in states…
CONTAI: Bengal prisons minister Akhil Giri resigned from state cabinet on Sunday amid intense pressure from both within Trinamool Congress and external quarters following his insulting outburst against forest ranger Manisha Shaw, calling her “beyadob” (discourteous) and a “janowar” (beast). Despite stepping down, Giri remained adamant against personally apologising to Shaw, although he maintained he…
GUWAHATI: BJP-governed Assam is ready with a proposed law mandating life imprisonment for anyone convicted of “love jihad“, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said Sunday, less than a week after the UP assembly passed a Bill amending the state’s 2021 anti-conversion legislation to increase the punishment for offences linked to marriage or elopement from the current…
BHOPAL: Nine kids, between 10 to 14 years, were crushed to death and four others critically injured at a temple when the crumbling wall of an adjacent house weakened by incessant rain collapsed on them in Shahpur town of MP’s Sagar district on Sunday. The kids were making earthen Shivlings when the 50-year-old wall gave…
NEW DELHI: Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Yadav late on Sunday ordered the removal of Sagar collector, SP, and Rahli SDM after 9 children died in wall collapse. In a tragic incident, nine children lost their lives, and two others were injured when a wall of a dilapidated house collapsed in Shahpur village, Sagar district, Madhya…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday responded to claims made by Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Derek O’Brien regarding the withholding of MGNREGA funds for West Bengal. O’Brien had accused the central government of failing to release funds for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme, but the BJP argued…
NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu departed from New Delhi on Sunday for a six-day visit to Fiji, New Zealand, and Timor-Leste. President Murmu will first visit Fiji on August 5, following an invitation from President Ratu Wiliame Maivalili Katonivere. This historic visit marks the first time an Indian head of state has traveled to Fiji….
NEW DELHI: Calling the three new criminal laws, which came into force across India on July 1, the “biggest reforms of 21st century,” Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that Chandigarh will be the first administrative unit in the country where 100% implementation will be completed in the next two months.Addressing a gathering…
Trinamool Congress has asked West Bengal’s correctional homes minister Akhil Giri for his resignation after the video of him threatening a female forest officer has been circulated online. The party also asked him to apologise unconditionally.“Following party instructions, state president Subrata Bakshi called Akhil Giri on Sunday afternoon, instructing him to apologise to the woman…
NEW DELH: Assam will bring in a new domicile policy that will allow only those born in the state to be entitled for government jobs, chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday.The move is aimed at addressing the state’s changing demography, which Sarma has said is a “huge concern” and a “matter of life…
