Gandhinagar/Surat, Aug 11 — The Gujarat government on Tuesday transferred Surat Municipal Commissioner M. Nagarajan, more than two months after the demolition of nearly 100 homes in the city’s Nasirnagar area triggered a probe and scrutiny from the Gujarat High Court. According to a notification…
Kohima, Aug 11 — Nagaland Governor Nand Kishore Yadav on Tuesday stressed the need to strengthen enforcement mechanisms and institutional capacity to effectively tackle the challenges posed by illicit liquor and drug trafficking in the state. The Governor said that strengthening the relevant…
Ahmedabad, Aug 11 — The Ahmedabad Police have registered a separate case against the owner of a private security agency after their investigation into the alleged rape of a 23-year-old woman found that the accused guard had been deployed only four days after joining the agency and had allegedly…
Guwahati, Aug 11 — The Assam government will restore agricultural income tax for larger assessees while keeping small farmers and tea growers earning up to Rs 10 lakh a year outside the tax ambit, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters here, Sarma said the…
Hyderabad, Aug 11 — Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy said on Tuesday that the state government will organise the prestigious Khelo India Youth Games 2026 on a grand scale.The Chief Minister held a review of the arrangements being made for the games with Sports Minister Vakiti Srihari and…
Kolkata, Aug 11 — Amid alleged police crackdown on loudspeakers used in religious places in West Bengal, Aam Janata Unnayan Party (AJUP) Chief Humayun Kabir said on Tuesday that rules regarding the use of the sound system should be evenly applicable to both temples and mosques.His reaction came…
Agartala, Aug 11 — Amid several months of agitation by the opposition CPI (M) and Congress against smart electricity meters, Tripura Power Minister Ratan Lal Nath on Tuesday said that the decision to introduce and implement smart meters in the state was taken during the tenure of the previous Left…
Kolkata, Aug 11 — A mentally-challenged youth from West Bengal, who spent nearly a year at a vagrant's home in Chennai, will be reunited with his family shortly, thanks to the initiative of a retired government employee. It is unclear how the youth reached Chennai, but he was found loitering in…
Hyderabad, Aug 11 — Five persons were killed, and seven were injured when a tanker rammed into an autorickshaw in Telangana’s Sangareddy district on Tuesday. The accident occurred at New Satwar in Zahirabad mandal.The injured have been admitted to Area Hospital in Zahirabad. The victims were farm…
Agartala, Aug 11 — Tripura Transport and Tourism Minister Sushanta Chowdhury has urged Union Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu to intervene in the reported withdrawal and reduction of several flight services from Maharaja Bir Bikram (MBB) Airport in Agartala, saying the move has…
Mumbai, Aug 11 — Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee president Harshvardhan Sapkal on Tuesday claimed that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological parent organisation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), opposed the national tricolour for many years. He said the RSS considered…
Kolkata, Aug 11 — The state Public Service Commission (PSC) will now oversee recruitment in cooperatives and municipalities in West Bengal, a government press statement said on Tuesday. Recently, Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari chaired a review meeting with recruiting agencies. It was decided that…
Washington, Aug 11 — A bipartisan group of US lawmakers has urged the Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US International Development Finance Corporation CEO Ben Black to prioritise an undersea electricity project they described as central to the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor…
Patna, Aug 11 — RJD MLA Bhai Virendra has made a strong statement about his long association with the Rashtriya Janata Dal and his loyalty to party supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, saying that his political position could have been very different had he left the party during its difficult years. Amid…
Jaipur, Aug 11 — Senior Congress leader and former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday urged the Bhajan Lal Sharma-led state government to oppose the proposed Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill (MMDR Amendment Bill), warning that the legislation could…
New Delhi, Aug 11 — Convicts Nazim and Kasim, who were sentenced to life imprisonment in the murder case of Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Ankit Sharma during the 2020 North-East Delhi riots, have approached the Delhi High Court challenging their conviction and sentence. As per the…
New York/New Delhi, Aug 11 — US-based lawyer Jim Walden said on Tuesday that the US court's dismissal of criminal charges against Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani and his nephew Sagar Adani started out as a tough prosecution but was at par for the course.Speaking to IANS, the attorney said that…
Pune, Aug 11 — Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday announced that the Maharashtra government is determined to make the state India's leading and most preferred destination for Global Capability Centres (GCCs). Speaking at the GCCProj Leadership Summit, the Chief Minister outlined an…
Gandhinagar, Aug 11 — Gujarat Minister Jitu Vaghani on Tuesday questioned Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his response to the student protests in Jharkhand, asking why a leader who raises students' issues at Delhi's Jantar Mantar did not "see the pain" of students protesting in Jharkhand.…
Srinagar, Aug 11 — On the suggestion of advocate Sunil Sethi, Chairman of the disciplinary committee of Jammu and Kashmir Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the party on Tuesday suspended its Pulwama District President, Er Syed Showkat Gayoor Andrabi pending inquiry against him in connection with the…
New Delhi, Aug 11 — The Supreme Court on Tuesday disposed of a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking creation of a time-bound, URL-specific and legally or judicially supervised mechanism to deal with grave forms of online harm, including rape and death threats, doxxing, exposure of children’s…