File photo: Union minister Amit Shah (Picture credit: PTI) Union cooperation minister Amit Shah said ‘Bharat Taxi’ will roll out soon to generate new job opportunities and ensure cabbies get the entire proceeds of their hard work. “Several companies operate taxi services in the country, but the profits go to the owners rather than the…
CHANDIGARH: Coming down heavily on Punjab Police over the murder of a kabaddi player in public view, the Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the DGP to appear in person and explain why adequate security arrangements were not made at the stadium, where nearly a thousand spectators had gathered.The DGP has been asked to…
NEW DELHI: Amid all-round protests over Supreme Court’s acceptance of a uniform definition of Aravali hills, the Union environment ministry on Wednesday sought to defuse the crisis by deciding to further expand prohibited areas and directed a central institution to identify additional areas/zones in the entire mountain range where mining should be prohibited, over and…
File photo: Union home minster Amit Shah (Picture credit: ANI) CHANDIGARH/PANCHKULA: In ten years of Modi government, India has overcome security challenges that had persisted for decades, home minister Amit Shah said in Panchkula Wednesday after taking salute at what he described as the “largest police graduation ceremony in the country”.The Modi government “stands like…
File photo: PM Modi (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: The progress of deregulation – simplification of rules – and reducing compliance burden to promote ease of business, and measures needed to develop human capital to align with India’s goal to become a developed nation will be on the agenda of a marathon three-day meeting that…
Pune company’s Delhi-Mumbai express-way contract may be axed over delays NEW DELHI: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Wednesday slapped an “intention to termination notice” – the final procedure before termination – on Roadways Solutions India Infra Ltd (RSIL) for failing to meet the construction target of a 35-km stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai…
File photo: Kuldeep Singh Sengar NEW DELHI: Kuldeep Singh Sengar, former UP MLA convicted of raping a minor girl in Unnao in 2017, did not come under the definition of a public servant under the Pocso Act, Delhi high court held in its Dec 23 order suspending his sentence.In a curious move, high court has…
File photo: Former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti (Picture credit: PTI) JAMMU: The high court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh on Tuesday dismissed a PIL filed by former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti seeking the transfer of undertrials—currently imprisoned in jails outside J&K—back into the Union Territory.The division bench of Chief Justice Arun Palli and Justice…
CBI to move Supreme Court against Delhi high court order NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation will approach the Supreme Court at the earliest to challenge the Delhi High Court order that suspended the life sentence of former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar and granted him bail in the 2017 Unnao rape case, officials…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Wednesday slammed the Centre’s directions to states to impose a ban on granting new mining leases in the Aravalli range, calling it a “bogus attempt at damage control.”Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh alleged that despite the fresh directive, “the Aravallis are not being saved, but are being sold out,” he said…