NEW DELHI: Unaffected by the rebuke from Supreme Court for seeking reference of petitions challenging the validity of the Tribunal Reforms Act to a five-judge bench half-way through the final hearing in the matter, attorney general R Venkataramani made a fresh request for adjournment on Thursday, upsetting CJI B R Gavai, who wondered why the…
Lucknow: The city is facing a growing air pollution crisis — not only from particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) dust particles but also from harmful gases like ammonia, sulfur dioxide (SO₂), and nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) — which are triggering a rise in respiratory, nervous system, and eye-related ailments. Experts have warned that these toxic gases…
US President Donald Trump has once again reiterated his old claim that India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire after his intervention. Speaking at an event in Miami, Florida, on Wednesday, Trump added new details to his claims, saying that after his intervention, the next day he received a call claiming that they had made…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA: West Bengal government on Thursday made it mandatory for all government and govt-aided schools to sing the state song, ‘Banglar Mati, Banglar Jal’, at morning assemblies. A notification, issued by the state secondary education board to heads of all upper primary and secondary schools, asked them to “take necessary…
Lucknow: Vigilance Establishment registered a case against Deepak Kumar Mishra, a retired administrative officer (Nazir) who served at the Jhansi Divisional Commissioner’s Office, for allegedly possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.According to officials, a confidential inquiry conducted revealed that Mishra earned a total of Rs 72.80 lakh during his service period through…
PATNA/NEW DELHI: Bihar’s electorate headlined Round 1 of the “vikas versus badlav” battle Thursday with the state’s highest-ever voter turnout of 64.7% in 121 assembly constituencies of 18 districts, marking a decimal-point improvement over the previous record of 64.6% in the 1998 Lok Sabha election. The assembly poll turnout closest to the new record is…
Lucknow: The UP State Electricity Board Engineers Association has announced a phased protest beginning Nov 20, in response to alleged harassment of engineers during and after the March 2023 strike and the ongoing movement.General secretary Jitendra Singh Gurjar said if the management fails to withdraw disciplinary actions, vigilance inquiries, and FIRs filed under ESMA, engineers…
The United States’ history of Native American boarding schools reveals a painful intersection of education, assimilation, and cultural erasure. These institutions, run jointly by the federal government and Christian denominations, sought not only to educate Indigenous children but to systematically strip them of their languages, traditions, and identities. In recent weeks, the exhumation and repatriation…
Lucknow: What was meant to be a joyous week of wedding celebrations turned into tragedy for a family in Lucknow’s Dubbaga, as 24-year-old groom-to-be Mohan alias Mohit Gautam died in a road accident along with two of his friends on Wednesday evening. The incident occurred near Bara Dev village under Auras police station area of…
Lucknow: An 8-year-old boy was killed after a speeding car hit him near a dhaba in Lucknow’s Bakshi Ka Talab area on Wednesday evening, police said.The victim, Krishna, was walking along the roadside when the vehicle struck him with such force that he was thrown several metres away. The child suffered severe head and arm…
