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NEW DELHI: In a move that will fast-track the establishment of municipal solid waste management facilities and common effluent treatment plants (CETPs), the Union environment ministry has proposed exempting such projects from prior environmental clearance.The ministry came out with two separate draft notifications for this purpose last week, arguing that such facilities are basically “essential…

AYODHYA: Ayodhya witnessed a unique confluence of north and south Indian culture on Wednesday as Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman joined Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath to unveil statues of south Indian saint-musicians Tyagaraja Swamigal, Purandara Dasa and Arunachal Kavi at the Brihaspati Kund in Tedhi Bazaar here.The ceremony, infused with devotion and south…

NEW DELHI: Days after an advocate hurled a shoe at Chief Justice of India BR Gavai, Punjab Police on Wednesday registered several FIRs over objectionable social media post targeting Gavai.According to Punjab Police, the FIRs were registered after several complaints were received in various districts of the state against more than 100 social media handles.A…

NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday announced on X that he has switched his e-mail correspondence address from ‘gmail’ platform — owned by American tech giant Google — to Zoho Mail, operated by the 100% Indian-owned company Zoho Corporation.“Hello everyone. I have switched to Zoho Mail. Kindly note the change in my email…

(Image used for representative purposes) Two Army soldiers have gone missing after being caught in a severe snowstorm during an operation in the higher reaches of the Kishtwar range in South Kashmir.According to a statement from the Chinar Corps, the incident occurred on the intervening night of October 6 and 7, when an operational team…

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission has deployed a total 824 flying squads — comprising a magistrate-level officer, police personnel and a videography team — in poll-bound Bihar to attend to citizens’ and political parties’ complaints regarding model code violations, received via its C-Vigil app, within 100 minutes.EC had on Monday announced two-phase polls in Bihar,…

Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami met Union railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday and discussed the development of railway infrastructure in state. During the meeting, the chief minister requested the Centre to bear the full cost of developing Dehradun and Haridwar railway stations as model railway stations, along with the expansion/strengthening of both stations…

NEW DELHI: The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation, the national regulatory authority on quality of drugs, issued an urgent alert to states and union territories on Wednesday after children’s deaths were linked to contaminated cough syrups.The regulator asked state and UT drug controllers to ensure that manufacturers comply with drug-testing rules, monitor production during inspections,…