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…
DEHRADUN: Almost a week after the Aug 5 flash flood in Dharali, officials on Monday said for the first time that 43 people were still missing, and issued warning saying “heavy to very heavy” rainfall forecast for Uttarkashi and surrounding districts until Aug 15 could cause fresh landslides and flooding, further delaying search and relief…
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…
LONDON: India is among 15 countries added to a list of eight whose nationals, when convicted of crimes in the UK, will no longer be able to delay their deportation by appealing against the decision to remove them.Under a “deport now, appeal later” initiative, they will be deported and have to take part in any…
Elon Musk owned xAI has expanded its latest AI model – Grok 4 to all users. The tech billionaire shared a post on X (formerly Twitter) to announce the same. “Grok 4 is now free for all users,” Musk writes in the post. However, the free access comes with a catch. As revealed by Elon…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah Monday complimented the security forces for the successful, safe and smooth conduct of the Amarnath Yatra – coming as it did after the Pahalgam attack and Operation Sindoor – highlighting that more than 4.1 lakh pilgrims visited the holy cave this year.“Over 4.14 lakh pilgrims did darshan of Baba…
Lucknow: A belligerent Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday scaled the Delhi Police barricading near Parliament and staged a sit-in ‘urging’ the Election Commission to initiate action on the affidavit filed by him over ‘illegal deletion’ of 18,000 names from the voters list in 2022 UP assembly polls.Akhilesh was participating in the protest march…
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…
NEW DELHI: Delhi HC Monday asked Kashmiri separatist Yasin Malik to respond within four weeks to a National Investigation Agency plea seeking death penalty for him in a terror funding case.The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief, who previously sought to argue his case against NIA’s plea to enhance his life imprisonment to death, was…
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….
