Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami (ANI) Under the leadership of chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, prompt action is being ensured in cases of misconduct by government personnel. In line with this, the chairman of Uttarakhand peyjal nigam, Shailesh Bagauli, has suspended Sujeet Kumar Vikas, in-charge chief engineer (Kumaon), whose substantive post is superintending engineer, Uttarakhand…
Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami (ANI) DEHRADUN: Drinking water corporation’s Kumaon-in-charge chief engineer Sujit Kumar Vikas was suspended on Thursday on charges of violating the employee conduct rules.According to an order issued here by Uttarakhand drinking water corporation chairman Shailesh Bagoli, superintending engineer Vikas, who was looking after the charge of chief engineer, has been…
India test-fires Prithvi-II & Agni-1 ballistic missiles (ANI) NEW DELHI: India on Thursday conducted successive tests of short-range nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, the Prithvi-2 and Agni-1, in what constitutes some strategic deterrence messaging to Pakistan soon after the intense cross-border hostilities under Operation Sindoor from May 7 to 10.The Prithvi-2 (350-km strike range) and Agni-1 (700-km)…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Friday welcomed the United States’ decision to designate The Resistance Front (TRF) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). TRF, a proxy of the banned Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, was behind the April 22 terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir‘s Pahalgam, which killed 26…
Baisaran Valley, Pahalgam (File photo) The United States on Thursday designated The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of the banned Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). The TRF — the group responsible for the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam that killed 26 people.The US department of…
Trump dissing Fed chief Powell is new only to the extent that the former is rude. Plenty of govt bosses, in the West or in India, have had a go at chiefs of central banks. Govts like cheap money, it’s feel-good. Central banks hate inflation. There lies the tensionJerome Powell may still be a marked…
At an elevation of 3,200 metres, Ladakh’s rugged mountain sweep in the backdrop, a group of five sat huddled and listened intently to the ‘click-clickclick’ captured in a recording. The insect-like call was proof that one of the most elusive bird species they had come looking for was there.Visual proof came soon enough, making July…
KOLKATA: Three persons awarded death sentence for a murder and incarcerated for the past 11 years were acquitted on Thursday by Calcutta high court, which ruled that the prosecution had failed to conclusively establish their hand in the killing of a 28-year-old woman, whose mutilated body was found at Sealdah railway station in 2014.A division…
CHENNAI: Take legal action against those preventing a person from entering a temple because of his or her caste, Madras high court has directed authorities, stressing that caste-based discrimination cannot be permitted in a country governed by the rule of law.Petitioner Venkatesan moved the court after idols installed by people belonging to scheduled caste (SC)…
NEW DELHI: The Centre told Karnataka high court Thursday that allowing the proliferation of unlawful content on social media in the name of free speech endangered democracy, and accused Elon Musk-owned X of attempting to escape accountability by taking shelter under the IT Act’s ‘safe harbour’ protection.Questioning the US-based company’s locus standi to move an…