NEW DELHI: Pursuant to the Jan 19 SC direction, Election Commission on Wednesday instructed the Bengal CEO to ensure that names of electors listed under “logical discrepancies” and “unmapped” categories under the SIR exercise are displayed by Jan 24 at gram panchayat bhawans, public places in talukas, block office of talukas as well as in…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi Wednesday emphasised the need to continue working with renewed vigour in order to strengthen development trajectory in ethnic strife-hit Manipur, conveying to the state administration the Centre’s “full and steadfast” support.On the statehood day of Manipur, Tripura and Meghalaya, he wrote separate letters to their respective heads of govt, highlighting…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has sought responses from Haryana govt and Mahira Buildwell (formerly Czar Buildwell) after an association of homebuyers from economically weaker sections accused the developer of an affordable housing scheme in Gurgaon, under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban), of cheating them.Accusing Czar Buildwell and its successor Mahira of obtaining a licence through…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the central empowered committee (CEC) to decide the fate of the proposed mega ‘Aravali Zoo Safari Project’, which has been billed by Haryana govt to be the world’s biggest zoo-safari spread across 10,000 acres of afforested land in Gurgaon and Nuh districts in the eco-sensitive Aravali Hills.Haryana’s senior…
NEW DELHI: IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has pushed back on IMF’s comment of the country being a secondary AI power, positioning itself as a front-rank AI nation by focusing less on headline-grabbing large models and more on large-scale deployment.At a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Vaishnaw challenged the view…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said illegal mining continues in the Aravali hills and ranges despite its ban, causing irreversible ecological damage, and ordered Delhi, Haryana and Rajasthan to take all measures to stop it. “There are people who are incorrigibly engaged in illegal mining, which has devastating consequences for Aravalis. Illicit mining…
NEW DELHI: The power ministry’s draft National Electricity Policy (NEP) 2026, released Wednesday, has proposed an annual reset of tariffs, including an index-linked automatic revision in case the regulator fails to act to ensure sound financial health of power utilities, while seeking to limit cross-subsidies for manufacturing units and railways, in an attempt to make…
NEW DELHI: Five or more traffic offences in a year and you could be barred from driving for 3 months. This provision – disqualification or revocation of driving licence (DL) – has been added by the road transport ministry through a fresh amendment to the Motor Vehicles Rules to rein in habitual errant drivers, reports…
SRINAGAR: A census to count the elusive Kashmir Markhor, the world’s largest wild mountain goat, will begin in early Feb as J&K’s wildlife department seeks more data on the population of the species that is categorised as ‘near threatened’.“The census will start from Kazinag National Park,” said Dr Tanushree Srivastava, senior manager and head of…
SRINAGAR: Breaking his silence on demands for separation of Jammu and Kashmir, chief minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday accused BJP MLAs of echoing Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s two-nation theory.“Why are BJP legislators demanding a separate Jammu state? They do not have the interests of the people of Jammu in mind,” Omar said while addressing…