Need some drastic act to free footpaths of squatters: HC
Bombay High Court criticizes state and BMC for failing to remove unlicensed hawkers encroaching on footpaths in Mumbai, emphasizing the need for action to prevent lawlessness.
Read MoreBombay High Court criticizes state and BMC for failing to remove unlicensed hawkers encroaching on footpaths in Mumbai, emphasizing the need for action to prevent lawlessness.
Read MoreSupreme Court upheld the high court order quashing Haryana govt’s decision to grant 5% additional marks to state domiciles in recruitment, calling it populist. Fresh exams ordered for Group C and D jobs.
Read MoreShiv Sena (UBT) MLC Anil Parab submitted a bill for 50% reservation for Marathi-speaking people in Mumbai to address discrimination in housing. The bill, awaiting approval, may be tabled during the monsoon session of the legislature.
Read MoreFour people, including Mohammed Saleem and municipal councillor Arsheel Baudh, were charged for provocation and criminal intimidation after allegedly razing a century-old graveyard in Khurja, Bulandshahr district. The incident occurred during a cleanliness drive without informing the local police or administration.
Read MorePittla Yellappa (47) of Vikarabad district, a shepherd, was presumed dead and his family were busy making arrangements for his last rites when he showed up just as the body was to be buried, much to the shock of his family members. On June 21, Yellappa of Navalga village had set out early in...
Read MoreThe leather-bound black and red book published by Lucknow-based Eastern Book Company (EBC) had grabbed limelight when it was frequently pulled out by opposition leaders, specially Rahul, in the Lok Sabha election rallies to claim that BJP would tamper with the Constitution if it returned to office. EBC publisher Sumeet Malik claims to have...
Read MoreA senior Airports Authority official was found dead under suspicious circumstances at his official accommodation at the airport. TOI is withholding his name. The official was found hanging from a ceiling fan dressed in women’s clothes, including a maxi, undergarments, bindi, lipstick, and bangles. His wife, a teacher, was in Pithoragarh at the time...
Read MoreWest Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee criticizes cabinet colleagues and officials for poor performance, setting a 10-day ultimatum for improvement or dismissal. In her sharpest public criticism to date of ministerial and administrative performance, Mamata set a 10-day deadline for everyone to sha-pe up or ship out. As many in her range of firing visibly...
Read MoreApart from fake notes of Rs 50, Rs 100, Rs 200 and Rs 500 denomination, two guns and a cache of explosives were also seized. Sukma SP Kiran Chavan said Maoists were circulating fake currency through weekly village markets in the interior regions of Bastar to “destabilize the economy”. A joint force of CRPF,...
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