JAIPUR: The Rs 450-crore ethanol project being developed by a private company in Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh district is likely to wind up operations in the state once procedural formalities for relocating the project to Madhya Pradesh are completed.Work on the project was halted weeks after violent protests by farmers over fear of the plant damaging soil…
KANPUR: Nine bank managers, three crop insurance staffers, and 32 farmers – 14 of them landless – have been booked after Rs 68 lakh was fraudulently transferred to 35 “landless” farmers as compensation for crop losses in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad district in violation of Prime Minister’s Crop Insurance Scheme (PMCIS) rules.Deputy director (agriculture) filed two…
PUNE: After several flip flops and a series of meetings with different parties, both NCP groups finally on Monday announced their tie-up for Pune municipal corporation and Pimpri Chinchwad municipal corporation polls scheduled for Jan 15. However, candidates will contest on their respective party symbols.An undivided NCP held office in PMC from 2007 to 2017,…
Kuldeep Sengar (ANI image) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed a week-old Delhi high court order granting bail to former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, convicted of raping a minor in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao, during pendency of his appeal against conviction and ensured that he is not released from prison.Departing from the general…
NEW DELHI: Seeking to end alleged malpractices in high-value arbitration cases, including concerns over undue influence to obtain favourable rulings, the road transport ministry will do away with the provision of arbitration for disputes in the highway sector which are over Rs 10 crore.As per the finalised changes in contract norms, disputes valuing more than…
KOLKATA: The Election Commission on Monday issued a fresh notification to the DEOs and DMs in West Bengal directing that over 1.3 lakh voters, whose names did not match in the BLO application, and those marked unmapped in the app but mapped in the hard copy of the 2002 electoral roll, should not be issued…
KOLKATA: An 82-year-old jumped on the railway tracks hours before his scheduled appearance at a hearing for the special intensive revision of electoral rolls at Para in Bengal’s Purulia Monday. A septuagenarian from Howrah and another from Kalyani died after receiving SIR hearing notices. Family members of both blamed SIR stress for the deaths.As SIR…
Chennai, Sep 1 (IANS ) The Chennai City Police have issued orders prohibiting the flying of drones in the city ahead of President Droupadi Murmu’s two-day visit to Tamil Nadu, citing security reasons. CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu police have detained four 17-year-old school dropouts for hacking a 20-year-old migrant worker from Odisha with sickles near abandoned…
Angel Chakma, a Tripura student who allegedly died following a racist attack in Dehradun, Uttarakhand. (PTI) NEW DELHI: Amidst outrage over the murder of Anjel Chakma, 24, from Tripura allegedly on racial grounds, a petition has been filed in Supreme Court seeking its intervention to protect people from north-eastern states from hate and racial abuse…
NEW DELHI: Expressing horror at the “hate crime” murder of Anjel Chakma in Dehradun, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday blamed the “hate spewing” leadership of BJP for normalising prejudice, which, he said, is being fed for years through toxic content and irresponsible narratives.Assam Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi said Chakma was killed after being called…