DEHRADUN: Residents of Uttarkashi alleged that unchecked construction in the Bhagirathi Eco Sensitive Zone (BESZ) and repeated disregard of their warnings led to the flattening of Dharali in the Aug 5 flash flood. Himalayayi Nagrik Drishti Manch, a people’s collective from the district, submitted a memorandum on Monday to the BESZ monitoring committee, the Union…
AGRA: Four days after an 80-year-old farmer, Satyabhan Singh, was set on fire allegedly by a land-grabber and his accomplices during an eviction drive by the revenue department at Khushipura village under Jaint police station of Mathura district, he succumbed to burn injuries at an Agra hospital on Monday, reports Sudeep Lavania.Mathura DM C P…
NEW DELHI: The Cooperative Election Authority Monday held its first consultative meeting with state cooperative election bodies, where the issue of whether EVMs can be used in cooperative polls was discussed, among others.The discussions, held to develop a mechanism to hold free and fair elections in cooperative societies, also took up matters relating to framing…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Monday criticised India’s ministry of external affairs, accusing it of “twisting” the remarks made by Army Chief Asim Munir during his visit to the US.“Pakistan strongly rejects the immature remarks made by the Indian ministry of external affairs earlier today…,” the foreign office said while responding to media queries regarding the MEA statement….
Amritsar: Former Akal Takht acting jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh unanimously elected as the president of the breakaway faction of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), in Amritsar. (PTI Photo) AMRITSAR/JALADHAR: Sukhbir Singh Badal-led SAD faced its strongest challenge from a parallel faction Monday as bitter rival and Akal Takht’s former acting jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh was…
NEW DELHI: In his bellicose speech where he threatened to nuke India, Pakistan army chief Asim Munir put a target on Reliance Industries Ltd’s refinery – the world’s largest single-site refining complex – at Jamnagar in Gujarat in case of any future military conflict with New Delhi, indicating for the first time the intent to…
INDORE: More economists and accountants. Fewer coders. From one-third to more than half in just a few years – non-engineers have stormed India’s top B-schools, ending decades of engineering dominance. IIM-Indore’s flagship MBA batch for 2025-27 has a little over 55% students from commerce, humanities, economics and arts backgrounds. IIM-Lucknow follows with just under 53%….
SAMBALPUR/BHUBANESWAR: A 13-year-old girl from Bargarh district succumbed to injuries after allegedly setting herself on fire Monday, marking the sixth such incident in Odisha in the past one month, report Priti Suna & Ashok Pradhan. She blamed another girl in a video purportedly shot by some onlookers before she was shifted to hospital, but did…
PRAYAGRAJ: Justice Prashant Kumar, at the centre of a controversy following Supreme Court’s Aug 4 directives that he not hear any criminal matter, will sit as part of an Allahabad high court division bench headed by a senior judge, according to the changed roster announced by Allahabad high court Monday. The new roster came into…
NAGPUR: A motorcycle rider with a woman’s body strapped to the seat with a dupatta and racing down Nagpur-Jabalpur highway for 80km with police on his heels has become the unlikely face of a tragedy that might have been initially mistaken for a crime, reports Soumitra Bose. Amit Yadav, 36, purportedly saw his wife Gyarshi…