KOZHIKODE: In a different time, 18-year-old hotel management student Abhijith Kallingal would have gone for a long, leisurely stroll in his village of Punchirimattom to capture its lush green hills and waterfalls with his mobile phone, as he did almost every day. But this is now. Sitting in a relief camp in Meppadi’s government high…
DEHRADUN: A multi-agency rescue operation continued at Kedarnath for the fourth day with 400 people still stranded after severe rains ravaged the area on Wednesday night. Over 1,200 individuals, including pilgrims and locals, were moved to safer locations on Sunday, even as the Indian Army began constructing a footbridge on the damaged stretch between Sonprayag…
BENGALURU: Some state governors are doing things they shouldn’t and not doing things they should, Justice BV Nagarathna of Supreme Court said while delivering the keynote address at a National Law School of India (NLSIU) conference in Bengaluru Saturday.The SC judge highlighted the importance of governors maintaining neutrality, quoting Durgabai Deshmukh, a member of the…
NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate is set to start restituting money to victims of scams. It will start with disbursement of nearly Rs 12 crore in attached fixed deposits (FDs) of Rose Valley group of companies in Kolkata to around 22 lakh small depositors who were tempted by the accused companies into depositing money with them…
VADODARA: Delhi high court has directed a Noida resident and some social media platforms to remove defamatory videos on Amul products. This follows a post by the resident, Deepa Devi, in June claiming she had found a centipede in an Amul vanilla tub purchased from Blinkit, sparking an internet furore.A bench of Justice Manmeet Pritam…
NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARGH: Home minister Amit Shah on Sunday asserted that NDA govt will not only complete its full five-year term but also take the helm at the Centre in 2029 and Narendra Modi will be prime minister again.“I want to assure you that whatever opposition wants to say, you don’t need to worry. In 2029…
KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday dialled her Jharkhand counterpart Hemant Soren, urging him to check the “sudden and huge release of water” from Tenughat dam on Damodar river in Bokaro which is affecting her state. Banerjee said she had also told Soren that “Jharkhand waters have been flooding Bengal, and this was man-made”.Banerjee…
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…
