The Uttar Pradesh jails department is making arrangements to take holy water from Maha Kumbh, Prayagraj, to all major jails across the State, allowing inmates to participate in the Maha Kumbh festival. The event will take place in all the jails on February 21. “The programme will take place in all the jails on February […]
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday (February 19, 2025) asked volunteers to ensure that their work matched the grandeur of the organisation’s newly constructed office in New Delhi. Built at a cost of around ₹150 crore, the new Sangh office at Keshav Kunj has 3.75 acres of built-up area. Its three 13-storey towers […]
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday pulled up the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) for not submitting adequate information to the court, including on faecal coliform levels in the Ganga and Yamuna rivers at Prayagraj during the ongoing Maha Kumbh. As per a Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) report submitted to the NGT […]
A Special Bench of the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Thursday (February 20, 2025) a suo motu case concerning an order of the anti-corruption ombudsman, Lokpal, that it has jurisdiction over High Court judges. The Bench of Justices B.R. Gavai, Surya Kant and A.S. Oka would weigh the January 27 order of the […]
The J&K High Court on Wednesday quashed the detention of Majid Hyderi, an independent journalist and television debater, after over 17 months of jail under the preventive detention law, Public Safety Act (PSA). Justice V.K. Chatterjee quashed the order after hearing the plea, said advocate Mohammad Yousuf Bhat, who represented Mr. Hyderi. Mr. Hyderi was […]
The BJP mocked the Lokayukta for giving a clean chit to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in the MUDA case, calling the institution a ‘clean chit guarantee machine’. The Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Assembly R. Ashok took to X and said, “The Lokayukta investigation into MUDA land scam was an investigation of Siddaramaiah, by Siddaramaiah […]
Close on the heels of rebel leader Basanagouda Patil Yatnal replying to the show-cause notice issued to him by the party’s central disciplinary committee, the BJP rebels are set to hold a meeting in Bengaluru on Thursday in which they are expected to finalise a State-wide campaign for broadbasing their support. It is learnt that […]
The government has decided to pay honorarium to Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) without any terms and conditions, Health Minister Veena George said in a statement here on Wednesday. Payment of honorarium without linking it to terms and conditions was one of the main demands raised by the representatives of health workers’ association, which had […]
The Higher Secondary School Teachers’ Association (HSSTA) has demanded that the Plus One and Plus Two higher secondary examinations be rescheduled to morning hours on days without SSLC examinations. The higher secondary examinations will be held over a period of 18 days from March 3 to 29. Of these days, SSLC examinations are not scheduled […]
The Hoysala patrolling staff rescued a 27-year-old woman in the nick of time while she allegedly attempted to end her life after locking herself inside the washroom of her house in Govindapura on Sunday. It was around 12. 30 p.m. when Hoysala-42 patrol team, led by ASI Rabbani and Head Constable Iranna, received an SOS […]
