Police removed loudspeakers from around 1,500 religious institutions across Bengal in two days. KOLKATA: Loudspeakers were removed from around 1,500 religious institutions across Bengal in two days as part of a police crackdown on pollution complaints, report Zeeshan Jawed & Dwaipayan Ghosh. At least 1,279 mosques and 199 temples were ordered to remove loudspeakers for…
The BJP is upset with Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena minister Sanjay Shirsat’s family visit. MUMBAI: The BJP is upset with Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena over its minister Sanjay Shirsat visiting Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijit Dipke’s family and meeting them in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.After the BJP expressed displeasure over Shirsat’s meeting the Dipkes, saying it…
Delhi’s Lakshmi Yojana hits roadblocks as women struggle to even register (AI image used for representational purpose only). NEW DELHI: Delhi govt’s Lakshmi Yojana, launched Augt 1, promises Rs 2,500 a month for eligible women. But many are getting stuck at the first level – registration.The signature of an MP or legislator, hunt for a…
Chennai: TVK govt’s maiden budget appeared to place youth, education, and sports at the center of its economic vision.The budget announced branded bicycles, helmets, and water bottles for over five lakh Class XI students in govt and govt-aided schools. In a thrust for sports, which again targeted the TVK govt’s key vote base of youth,…
Bettiah: The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has lodged an FIR against 150-200 unidentified residents of Nepal’s Susta village for allegedly extending an earthen embankment into Indian territory and pelting stones at an SSB patrol along the India-Nepal border in West Champaran district on Tuesday.SSB officials said on Wednesday that the FIR was registered at Valmikinagar…
PM says since repeal infrastructure has expanded and opportunities in education, healthcare and sports have grown NEW DELHI: The lives of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh have witnessed wide-ranging transformation since Articles 370 and 35(A) were repealed, PM Narendra Modi said on the seventh anniversary of the decision, stating that the removal…
Kolkata: The 53-year-old Nehru Children’s Museum will not be closed down and state govt will provide all necessary help to keep the institution running, chief minister’s adviser Subrata Gupta told the museum’s director Sudip Srimal on Wednesday during their interaction at the state secretariat.Srimal got a call from CMO on Tuesday and was requested to…
Mumbai: Observing that some of the content was “vile’’ “abusive’’ and “certainly defamatory’’, Bombay high court on Wednesday granted urgent interim relief to Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari and directed social media intermediaries to remove posts, including videos, that linked him to the ethanol-blended fuel (EBP) controversy.Gadkari had sought judicial intervention against Meta platforms, X…
New Delhi: Ordering a survey of all city police stations on how women-cop-friendly these are, Delhi High Court Wednesday asked for sanitary pad vending machines to be installed at all police stations along with exclusive washroom in the capital.A bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia said the survey be conducted within…
Chennai: The C Joseph Vijay-led Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam govt has used its maiden budget to give Tamil Nadu’s welfare architecture a new political identity. Finance minister Marie Wilson on Wednesday announced a string of programmes carrying the prefix ‘Vetri’, signalling govt’s attempt to build its own welfare brand.Yet, the budget document showed that much of…
