NEW DELHI: Bangladesh has stopped issuing new import permits for onion from India through Hili land port citing “interests of domestic farmers”. Though 10 lakh tonnes of onion is shipped to the eastern neighbour, officials said Indian onions are still in high demand in other countries. “We expect onion will find more takers in the…
NEW DELHI: Union minister Amit Shah will on Friday inaugurate National IED Data Management System (NIDMS) – a platform for storing, collating and disseminating improvised explosive device-related data for use in post-blast investigations and analytics – at NSG Garrison in Manesar near Gurugram. “NIDMS is a secure, national-level digital platform developed by NSG’s National Bomb…
An ownership litigation over a prime 3-acre plot in Hyderabad’s posh Banjara Hills has seen recusal by seven Telangana HC judges as respondents, including TDP functionary G Deepak Reddy, had objected to six of them hearing the case in which an interim stay is operating for 15 years, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra. Source link
At a junction on Anna Salai in Chennai, a car edges past the spot where a traffic light once hung, slows down, curves into a U-turn and merges back without stopping. Almost 1700km away, in Bokaro, drivers approach roundabouts that have never needed signals at all, easing off instinctively. In Kota, the same idea of…
NEW DELHI: With dog lovers pressing for a stay on SC’s order to remove strays from public institutions such as hospitals, schools and colleges, the court asked them Thursday to go through a Dec 29 TOI report on the menace of strays in Ladakh and made it clear that dogs cannot be allowed to roam…
In a sweeping overhaul of America’s global footprint, President Donald Trump has authorised the withdrawal of US from 66 international organisations, marking one of the most significant retreats from multilateralism in modern history. The pullout is from all major climate-linked global bodies, including India-headquartered International Solar Alliance and UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Though…
A 25-year-old wedding caterer returning from Mumbai was beaten to death and his body set on fire by a teenage auto driver in Meerut after an argument over loud music. The 16-year-old driver, who was detained later, allegedly assaulted Rohit Kumar with bricks and set his body on fire using engine oil. Source link
TOI correspondent from Washington: With no end in sight for Washington’s tariff tangle with India, more trouble appears to be looming for New Delhi after US President Donald Trump green-lit Wednesday a sweeping bipartisan legislation that will authorise him to slap primary and secondary sanctions as well as punitive tariffs up to 500% on Moscow…
KANNUR: A Thalassery sessions court in Kerala sentenced Thursday seven BJP-RSS workers to life imprisonment for the 2008 murder of a CPM functionary, K Latheesh. Additional sessions court judge J Vimal found the seven accused guilty, and awarded them 35 years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1.4 lakh each. Four other accused…
GURGAON: Haryana govt has directed hospitals empanelled under Ayushman Bharat (AB-PMJAY) to place all beneficiaries admitted in intensive care (ICU) and high dependency units (HDU) under continuous live CCTV surveillance and to share the feed with the state health agency for verification, monitoring and processing claims. The directive, issued on Wednesday by Ayushman Bharat-Haryana Health…