SHILLONG: Meghalaya’s principal secretary Syed Md A Razi was allegedly found dead inside his hotel room in Uzbekistan on Monday, officials said. It is suspected that he died of cardiac arrest.Razi, an IRTS officer on deputation to the state since 2021, was in Uzbekistan’s Bukhara city on a personal visit since April 4. The hotel…
JAMMU: In a significant push for infrastructure and economic growth in Jammu & Kashmir, over 300 development projects pending clearances at different stages have received forest clearance.These environmental clearances have been approved following a high-level meeting between Union minister for environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC), Bhupender Yadav, and J&K minister, Javed Ahmed Rana, in…
Women marched from Lendra to Jagdalpur for 25km to meet collector RAIPUR: Some 25 women from a panchayat in Bastar – mostly ‘bahus’ who have married into the villages – walked over 25km to the Jagdalpur district headquarters on Wednesday to demand toilets, saying they are embarrassed to have to go out to relieve themselves.The…
RANCHI: Enforcement Directorate on Monday carried out raids at 23 locations across Ranchi and Chaibasa districts of poll-bound Jharkhand, targeting the relatives of a minister in the Hemant Soren cabinet and an IAS officer, among several others.ED did not issue any official statement on the raids, but sources in the agency said the searches were…
