A committee appointed by the High Court of Meghalaya has found evidence of illegal mining and transportation of coal in the State’s South Garo Hills district. The panel, headed by retired judge B. P. Katakey, was appointed in April 2022 to recommend measures to the Meghalaya government in compliance with the directions issued by the […]
Two deaths and 16 fresh suspected cases of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) were reported in Pune and other districts, the Public Health Department said on Wednesday (January 29, 2025). The total number of cases were 111 till January 28 and now it has mounted to 127. About 23 patients are from the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) […]
Nearly a year after the Centre launched the ₹75,000 crore PM Surya Ghar scheme, 8.5 lakh households have installed rooftop solar connections, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Pralhad Joshi, said at a public event on Wednesday (January 29, 2025). First announced following the inauguration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya by Prime Minister […]
Describing the murder of a 22-year-old man and his 16-year-old girlfriend belonging to a Scheduled Caste community near Mettupalayam in 2019 as a “rarest of rare” case, a Special Court in Coimbatore on Wednesday awarded a death sentence to the man’s elder brother for the caste killing. Judge K. Vivekananthan of the Special Court for […]
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (January 29, 2025) ordered a complete stop to the practice of manual scavenging and hazardous manual cleaning of sewers and septic tanks in top metros across the country. “We hereby order manual sewer cleaning and manual scavenging shall be stopped in all top metropolitan cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, […]
Expressing concern over people driving without a helmet, riding triple, and indulging in wheeling on public roads, the High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday said it may also examine this issue in a PIL petition, which is seeking implementation of a new rule that mandates children between nine months and four years to wear crash […]
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah approved a proposal to set up new STPs to treat an additional 583 MLD of water in Bengaluru. Currently, about 1,300 MLD are being treated. Project plan ready A release from the Chief Minister’s Office here after the review of the Minor Irrigation Department said that the project plan is ready and […]
Even as the State government has set its sights on achieving ‘Arogya Andhra Pradesh’, Vijayawada, the second biggest city in the State, is yet to address the issue of shrinking open spaces. The ongoing feud between the Andhra Loyola College and walkers brings to fore this issue. While the city has four major playgrounds, only […]
Anguished by the years of abuse an impoverished tribal woman from Chhattisgarh suffered as a domestic worker in the national capital and neighbouring cities, the Supreme Court on Wednesday (January 29, 2025) directed the Union government to work on bringing a law to protect this burgeoning but unorganised workforce from exploitation. Also Read:Explained | Are […]
The Madras High Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a plea with respect to alleged “harassment” of some journalists by the Greater Chennai City Police (GCCP) in connection with the Anna University sexual assault First Information Report (FIR) leak case investigation. A Division Bench of Justices S.M. Subramaniam and M. Jothiraman said, it would not […]
