KOLKATA: The Centre Monday moved Supreme Court challenging a Calcutta high court order directing it to resume the MGNREGA scheme in West Bengal from Aug 1. The apex court is likely to hear the plea this week.In June, the HC had directed the Centre to resume the rural employment programme in the state from Aug…
Jaipur: The open-top safari truck coughed, rattled, stopped. Twenty tourists sat trapped in Ranthambore’s Zone-6 – a 25sqkm territory locals call “three-tiger country”. Time: 6pm. Darkness set in and the forest closed in. Panic spread. Parents whispered words of comfort to shush their crying children.For an hour and 45 minutes Saturday evening, the group remained…
BAREILLY: A 26-year-old woman, who was believed to have been murdered by her husband, turned up at Budaun’s Ujhani police station on Saturday with her lover and told police she had left her husband due to marital discord, was pregnant with her partner and wanted to live with him.An FIR was filed in Ujhani by…
Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla calls on PM Modi at his 7, Lok Kalyan Marg residence on Monday NEW DELHI: Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian astronaut to go to the International Space Station (ISS), was embraced by PM Narendra Modi when the country’s spaceman called on him at his 7, Lok Kalyan Marg residence…
NEW DELHI: Airtel’s network in the Delhi-NCR region witnessed significant disruptions Monday as customers were not able to make outgoing calls even though incoming calls and data continued to work.Even some Jio and Vodafone Idea customers faced problems when they called Airtel users. The problems persisted for around two hours towards early evening, and finally…
CHENNAI: A man flying from Kuwait was arrested in Chennai upon the flight’s landing for smoking aboard the aircraft Sunday. The accused, Ajmir Sheik Mohammed was booked under Section 10 of Aircraft Act and was released on bail. Police said the accused must appear before the court when summoned.Ajmir allegedly lit up a cigarette inside…
PATNA: A 35-year-old mother of three children and her paramour, who also had three kids, died by suicide in Bihar‘s Vaishali district on Monday after the two families disapproved of their relationship.Sunaina Devi and Manibhushan Kumar (45), a veterinary doctor, allegedly consumed poison. Sunaina was married to one Sunil Rai. Cops said Sunaina and Manibhushan…
In the lanes and back streets of Bandra-Khar-Santacruz, if you see a six-storey housing society building demolished and replaced by an 18-storey tower, it’s not magic. Nor is it illegal.Some clauses in the city’s development control regulations can bring great windfalls for builders redeveloping housing societies. If the builder constructs tenements for project-affected persons within…
GUWAHATI: A contentious mining lease granted to a private cement company for 3,000 bighas (4.01 sq km) in Assam’s Dima Hasao district led an incredulous Gauhati high court judge to question on camera if it was “some kind of joke or what” that “public interest” had been sacrificed at the altar of business.“The entire district?…
NEW DELHI: Former DGP of UP and Assam Prakash Singh, on whose petition the Supreme Court had 19 years ago laid down the process for selection of state police chiefs by involving the Union Public Service Commission and ordered a fixed two-year tenure for them, on Monday suggested dramatic changes to its ruling, which, he…
