NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up the central government for making ‘toothless’ environment laws, says Commission of Air Quality Management (CAQM) Act provision on penalty for stubble burning not implemented.The SC said that CAQM Act was enacted without creating required machinery for implementing law to curb air pollution. The Centre assured the…
NEW DELHI: A scuffle broke out at Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia campus on Tuesday night, disrupting a Diwali celebration and prompting police deployment outside the university. The incident led to significant chaos, as captured in videos circulating on social media.The footage shows a large crowd gathered on the campus, with men and women carrying backpacks…
Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren RANCHI: Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren and wife Kalpana featured in the first list of 35 candidates released by JMM late Tuesday for the assembly elections on November 13 and 20.Hemant will contest from Barhait (ST) in Sahibganj district and Kalpana from Gandey in Giridih. Basant, Hemant’s younger brother, will also seek…
MUMBAI: Two days after ally BJP released its first list of 99 candidates for assembly polls, Sena named 45 of its nominees, including CM Eknath Shinde, late on Tuesday. All 40 MLAs who had left Uddhav Thackeray and joined hands with Shinde have got tickets, as have all his cabinet ministers.Besides Shinde, who will fight…
Bhopal resident Faizan alias Faizal stood in front of the national flag and saluted 21 times BHOPAL: Bhopal resident Faizan alias Faizal, who is accused of raising pro-Pakistan slogans, stood in front of the national flag at Misrod police station on Tuesday, saluted 21 times, each time saying ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ as part of…
NEW DELHI: India and Singapore Tuesday decided to step up their defence cooperation, including commencing co-development and co-production of military equipment, as well as extend their agreement on joint military training (Army) for the next five years.The sixth defence ministerial dialogue, led by Rajnath Singh and his counterpart Dr Ng Eng Hen here, also agreed…
NEW DELHI: After much suspense, Sebi chairperson Madhabi Buch is scheduled to appear before the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament on Thursday, a meeting that on agenda is slated to be a performance review of the top regulator, but which may result in fireworks over its functioning as well as about the recent allegations of…
CHENNAI: Contractual conditions cannot deny or offer less favourable maternity benefits to women employees, Madras high court has ruled, pointing out that Maternity Benefit Act would prevail over such contractual conditions.The first bench of chief justice K R Shriram and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy passed the order on Tuesday, on a plea moved by MRB Nurses’…
RUDRAPUR: In an unusual move, police in Uttarakhand’s Udham Singh Nagar district announced a reward of Rs 5 for the capture of three absconding criminals involved in a recent shootout incident. The symbolic gesture, instead of the usual bounties that go much higher, is intended to highlight “the diminished status of these notorious offenders in…
RANCHI/DUMKA: Exit of veteran BJP neta from Santhal Parganas, Lois Marandi, from the party and her aligning with governing JMM Monday has put the saffron camp in a tight spot in Jharkhand ahead of the assembly polls. BJP is seemingly struggling to spot a credible face to field in Barhait, to take on incumbent MLA…
