NEW DELHI: With stubble burning likely to peak in the next few days, the environment ministry has doubled the penalty for burning paddy crop residue by farmers. The revised fines range from Rs 5,000 to Rs 30,000 per incidence, depending on the size of the offender’s farm.The revised penalty will be imposed on violators with…
MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: India called out Canada for what it described as Ottawa’s “hypocrisy” on freedom of speech in blocking a publication based in Australia – Australia Today – that highlighted foreign minister S Jaishankar’s remarks against Canada this week in Canberra. The govt also said Canada had not…
NEW DELHI: IAF, Navy and Coast Guard have initiated the process to scrap their agreements with cab aggregator Uber as a precautionary step after some cyber security experts red-flagged the risks of potential data exposure and location tracking of military personnel and their families using the service. IAF on Oct 18 signed an agreement with…
NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi dubbed Devendra Fadnavis’s controversial comments about his brandishing a copy of the Constitution at a Nagpur convention an ‘insult’ to Ambedkar, and said the people of Maharashtra will avenge BJP’s ‘attack’ on the Constitution.In a post across social media platforms with hashtag #SamvidhanVirodhiBhajpa, Rahul said, “BJP’s former chief minister of Maharashtra…
NEW DELHI: Giving a legal cloak to the age-old norm ‘rules of the game can’t be changed mid-way’, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the eligibility criteria for govt jobs cannot be altered after advertising vacancies, and also said that transparency and non-discrimination are inflexible features of public recruitment.A bench of Chief Justice D…
JAIPUR: The national tiger conservation authority (NTCA) has asked the wildlife crime control bureau (WCCB) to gather intelligence on the disappearance of 25 tigers from Ranthambore Tiger Reserve (RTR) in Rajasthan.The move follows an order issued on Nov 4 by chief wildlife warden Pavan Kumar Upadhyay regarding the missing tigers. Upadhyay’s order cited an internal…
NEW DELHI: Amid reports of violence in Bangladesh’s port city of Chittagong over a controversial social media post, India urged the interim govt in Dhaka to act against extremist elements and ensure the safety of Hindus.According to an agency report, a local Muslim youth uploaded a post on Facebook that sought a ban on ISKCON,…
This is a representational image SRINAGAR: The J&K assembly resembled a fight club Thursday as BJP MLAs clashed with marshals after speaker Abdul Rahim Rather ordered the eviction of opposition members who were protesting the passage of a resolution on restoring the former state’s special status — revoked in 2019 with the abrogation of Article…
SRINAGAR: An offshoot of the Jaish-e-Mohammad terror outfit, called the “Kashmir Tigers,” killed two Village Defence Guard (VDG) members, Nazir Ahmed and Kuldeep Kumar, both residents of Ohli Kuntwara in Kishtwar, on Thursday morning. An encounter also erupted in Sopore, in the Baramulla district of north Kashmir, following a search operation by security forces in…
NEW DELHI: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday made strong statements about “anti-national forces” and said that the Sangh volunteers would “remove all obstacles coming in the way of the work of Sanatan and saints using sticks (danda).”Terming the present India a “resilient” one, Bhagwat said that the country “will continue to overcome all challenges….
