CHENNAI: In a bid to rally support of all Tamil Nadu political parties, chief minister M K Stalin announced on Tuesday a meeting of registered parties on March 5 to discuss the Union govt’s proposed delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies in 2026, arguing it would “throttle the voice of Tamil Nadu”, a state that succeeded…
MUMBAI: Describing MMRDA‘s actions as arbitrary and unfair, Bombay HC Tuesday set aside a Jan 3 notice by which it terminated the services of French engineering firm Systra’s Indian subsidiary as a consultant for three Metro lines in the Mumbai region. Even in a contract with a private party, said the judges, the state and…
This is a representational image KOLKATA: Over a decade after the lynching of a young trader in Sodepur’s Gandhinagar, a Barrackpore court on Tuesday sentenced five individuals, including Panihati councillor Tarak Guha, to life imprisonment.Guha, a councillor from ward 11 of Panihati Municipality, was arrested immediately after appearing in court on Friday for the first…
This is a representational image (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Government has set a target to construct 10,000 km of national highways (NHs) in 2025-26, as per the budget document, which is the lowest in the past seven years since 2018-19. However, continuing with the sharper focus on building wider and greenfield highways and expressways,…
Annamalai said Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin was instilling imaginery fears among people. NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai fired back at chief minister MK Stalin after the chief minister announced that the state was ready for “another language war”. Stalin called an all-party meeting on March 5 to discuss the Lok…
Shashi Tharoor posts selfie with Piyush Goyal and Jonathan Reynolds NEW DELHI: Is Shashi Tharoor on his way out of the Congress or is he just flexing his muscles for a greater role in Kerala Congress keeping in mind the assembly elections in the state next year? Well, any answers to this at present would…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday defended her ‘Mrityu Kumbh‘ remark on Maha Kumbh stampede and said that her statement was “distorted”. She also demanded the release of promised compensation announced by the Yogi Adityanath government for the families of the victims.“If I am arranging for a wedding ceremony, I must…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi party leader Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday alleged that the BJP-led governments in Lucknow and at the Centre were engaged in a conflict with each other and claimed UP CM Yogi Adityanath‘s ‘pig’ remark was addressed to Delhi.He highlighted the contradiction between the UP state pollution control board’s claim that the Ganga was…
NEW DELHI: Central Board of Secondary Education on Tuesday approved draft norms for conducting Class 10 board exams twice a year from 2026.The board will the new norms in the public domain after which stakeholders can submit their feedback till March 9 following which the policy will be finalised.As per the draft norms, the first…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav hit back at Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath following his “vultures got dead bodies, pigs got dirt” remark and said that negative mentality manifested itself in the form of words.The SP in a post on X accused the government of exploiting Maha Kumbh for political advantage and…
