Chennai: Tamil Nadu state pollution monitoring body has dropped action against the Tata Electronics’ Hosur plant after sample analysis failed to indicate water contamination, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has dropped any further action on the showcause notice after satisfactory response from the company, it…
Women shield themselves from the scorching heat in Patna on Tuesday Patna: The southwest monsoon’s advance across Bihar has hit a pause after entering parts of north and east Bihar with strong dry westerly winds delaying its progression into the remaining regions of the state. The slowdown has led to a renewed spell of heat,…
Hazaribag: A 32-year-old BSF nursing assistant posted at the BSF Training Centre and School (TC&S) in Meru has been missing since the night of June 12, police said.Muffasil police station officer-in charge Mukesh Singh on Tuesday said an FIR was lodged by BSF authorities regarding the disappearance of Anant Chakraborty, a native of Murshidabad in…
Ranchi: Speaking at a day-long workshop here on Tuesday, chief minister Hemant Soren called for wider awareness drives among citizens to promote organ and tissue donation in Jharkhand.The CM inaugurating the workshop, ‘best practices in organ and tissue donation’ organised by the Jharkhand state organ and tissue transplant organisation (SOTTO), along with MOHAN foundation and…
MUMBAI: In a significant ruling, the Bombay high court recently held that a divorced wife cannot seek enhancement of her maintenance amount that was decreed before her husband’s death. But the ex-wife can continue to recover her maintenance for her lifetime and also arrears of maintenance from his assets, even after the husband passes, Justices…
Kolkata: Bengal health minister Sharadwat Mukherjee said on Tuesday that the state will implement the norms brought by Centre on over the counter sale of cough syrup. The state will soon issue a directive, he said, so that cough syrups are not sold without prescription. Mukherjee added that over the counter sale also aids addiction…
Mumbai: NCP (SP) leader Anil Deshmukh on Tuesday requested Maharashtra Governor to direct the state government to make public the final report of the Chandiwal Commission which probed the allegations levelled against him by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh.In a letter to governor Jishnu Dev Varma, Deshmukh, a former state home minister, said…
New Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has claimed that it has overshot its pre-monsoon desilting target by mid-June, achieving 118.8% desilting across 793 drains that are wider than four feet.Against the Phase-I target of removing and transporting 1.4 lakh metric tonnes (MT) of silt, the civic body has cleared 1.7 lakh MT.“Directions have been…
Chennai: A magistrate court in Chennai sent Raheema Khatun and her boyfriend Ashraf Ali to three days of police custody in connection with the murder of her husband Ameer Ali, whose torso was found inside an abandoned suitcase at Perambur railway station on June 5.Immediately after the order, police brought the duo to the Otteri…
Patna: The East Central Railway (ECR) on Tuesday urged people not to spread rumours and misleading information, rejecting claims made in a viral social media post regarding the death of a job aspirant at Patliputra railway station in Patna.Reacting to a post on X shared by Congress functionary Rahul Gandhi, the ECR said the incident…
