NEW DELHI: Pleading with the Supreme Court for prospective implementation of its nine-judge bench ruling allowing states to levy royalty on extracted minerals and tax on mineral-bearing lands, the Union government on Wednesday said retrospective application would create a burden humongous enough to ruin many PSUs and industries, dent the larger economy and send prices…
CUTTACK: Orissa high court has suspended the life sentence awarded to former Chhatrapur MLA Nagireddy Narayan Reddy and two others for their alleged role in a police inspector‘s murder during an agitation against land acquisition for a steel project in Ganjam district in 1998, reports Lalmohan Patnaik.HC ordered their release on bail on such terms…
DEHRADUN: Three people were killed and at least six injured after a house collapsed in Haridwar district as heavy rain wreaked havoc in several parts of Uttarakhand on Wednesday.A family is reported to have gone missing following a cloudburst in a village in the Ghansali area of Tehri district, officials said.A house collapsed due to…
NEW DELHI: Even as Congress on Wednesday filed a notice of breach of privilege against PM Modi for tweeting BJP MP Anurag Thakur‘s speech with content that had allegedly been expunged, there was little likelihood of the move making any headway, report Akhilesh Singh & Subodh Ghildiyal. Congress notice submitted by Charanjit Singh Channi, ex-CM…
NEW DELHI: On a day Congress MPs protested in Lok Sabha over BJP MP Anurag Thakur‘s remarks in the House over caste census, which were seen as a “caste slur” on Rahul Gandhi, the saffron party strongly defended its MP and said he had not taken anyone’s name but even if the comments were aimed…
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh police arrested Wednesday two men after charging them under the state’s anti-conversion law for allegedly offering a villager in Ambedkar Nagar and his friends Rs 10,000 each and promising to build them houses if they converted to Christianity.Police said the accused G Raju and Ram Avadh Nishad were taken into custody following…
PATNA: A six-year-old pre-primary student of a Bihar school carried his father’s licensed pistol to class Wednesday and ended up “mistakenly” pulling the trigger on a 10-year-old boy inside a classroom. The bullet struck the Class III student’s left palm.Police said the owner of the gun, a guard at the same school in Supaul district’s…
NEW DELHI: Foreign minister S Jaishankar is likely to travel to the Maldives next week for what will be the first high-level bilateral visit by the Indian side to the important Indian Ocean neighbour since the new president, Mohamed Muizzu, assumed office late last year.Jaishankar will hold talks with his counterpart Moosa Zameer on ongoing…
NEW DELHI: As of June 30, nearly 150 people have died due to seasonal influenza A (H1N1), also known as swine flu, across India, according to data from the National Centre for Disease Control. Punjab reported 41 deaths, followed by Gujarat (27), Haryana (26) and Maharashtra (16). Delhi did not report any deaths this year,…
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday strongly defended the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and said it had “unimpeachable credentials” and he would not permit any member to single out an organisation which was “doing national service”.Dhankhar’s comments came after SP member Ramji Lal Suman, while talking about National Testing Agency chairperson, said…
