Asaduddin Owaisi (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: AIMIM supremo and MP Asaduddin Owaisi launched a sharp attack on the BJP over India’s upcoming Asia Cup cricket clash with Pakistan, questioning why the government allowed the match despite the recent Pakistan-sponsored Pahalgam terror attack. He demanded clarity on whether the monetary gains from the game outweighed the…
New Delhi: Highlighting misuse of insolvency proceedings in real estate sector which is triggered by speculative investors and affecting the interest of genuine homebuyers, Supreme Court said such investors are acting like a “slow poison” for the residential real estate sector and they are interested in making profits and not in getting possession of flats.A…
NAGPUR: In a subtle retort to detractors amidst the ethanol controversy, Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said, “My brain is worth 200 crore a month. I am not at all short of money and I don’t stoop low.”He emphasised that his work and experiments are driven by ideas and purpose for farmers, rather than…
When filmmaker Anuparna Roy was a child, she listened wide-eyed as her grandmother spoke dreamily of a river. Her maternal grandmother, married at nine to a man in his 30s in Purulia district of West Bengal, often told her stories about the river’s pure, beautiful water. “I always thought she must have seen this river,…
NEW DELHI: Holding that public interest isn’t synonymous with the cause of govt but with enforcing accountability, Supreme Court said courts shouldn’t overlook govt negligence or condone inordinate delay in filing cases, as this amounts to institutionalising inefficiency.A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan said courts shouldn’t become a “surrogate of state…
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla (File photo) NEW DELHI: Expressing concern over “planned” deadlocks in the House, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Saturday underscored the need for comprehensive dialogue among all political parties and elected representatives. The Speaker also urged the media to give prominence to viewpoints of elected representatives engaged in “factual and…
NEW DELHI: Growing challenge of synthetic drugs and clandestine labs, extradition of fugitives and trafficking through the dark web will be high on agenda of discussion at the conference of heads of anti-narcotics task force to be held in Delhi next week, officials said.Heads of narcotics units of 36 states and UTs will be congregating…
Omar Abdullah (PTI photo) SRINAGAR: J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah has expressed concern over the vanishing hangul, a critically endangered subspecies of Central Asian red deer, also known as the Kashmir stag, which is endemic to the Kashmir region. He fears they may go extinct.“I don’t want a situation tomorrow where our children and grandchildren…
Jitendra Singh (File photo) JAMMU: Union minister Jitendra Singh Friday visited flood-affected villages along the international border in Kathua and Samba districts of Jammu and Kashmir, assessed the damage to crops and property, distributed relief material, and assured the affected people of early compensation.He also handed over domestic water-purifying units in the flooded areas to…
NEW DELHI: The poor may now prefer to shift to beggar homes rather than fight hunger and diseases in their dilapidated houses as the Supreme Court ordered states and UTs on Friday to ensure dignified living conditions in beggar homes along with periodic health check up of inmates by doctors and dieticians to ensure hygienic…