NEW DELHI: A mix of anticipation and anxiety has gripped Delhi with the Supreme Court hinting that it may allow the sale of green crackers in the city just a week before Diwali. The apex court is likely to deliver its verdict on Monday. While many residents welcomed the prospect of fireworks returning to the…
The Indian wolf, commonly known as gray wolf, is found across India and Pakistan DEHRADUN: In a significant development in animal classification, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has for the first time evaluated the Indian wolf (Canis lupus pallipes) separately, suggesting that it may be classified as a distinct species within the Canis…
Kerala records 3,000 critical snakebite incidents annually Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala, second only to West Bengal in venomous snake diversity nationwide, has declared snakebite envenomation a disease of public health importance, requiring mandatory hospital reporting of cases, strengthening anti-venom supply chains and standardising treatment protocols.Kerala HC directed the state govt recently to make snakebite a notifiable disease…
CHANDIGARH: Police on Sunday pressed a more stringent section of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act in the case related to the alleged suicide of IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, following strong objections from his wife Amneet Kumar.Amneet had accused police of “diluting” the case by invoking Section 3(1)(r) of the…
BHOPAL: High drama unfolded in Sagar district Saturday after an undertrial, charged with rape and under SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, escaped police custody and climbed onto the roof of police residential quarters, threatening to jump off unless he is paid Rs 50,000.The stand-off lasted nearly an hour before police managed to talk him down…
ROHTAK: Four cousins died after their car crashed into a road-roller parked on the roadside near Gohana, along Delhi-Jammu NH-44, in Haryana’s Sonipat district on Saturday. Among the deceased was Somveer, son of Congress Rohtak (rural) president Balwan Ranga. The others were his cousins, Ankit, Lokesh and Deepankar. Police said the car spiralled out of…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi was among the leaders of more than 20 countries who received an invitation from US President Donald Trump and Egypt President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi for the Gaza peace summit that both leaders will co-chair on Monday in the resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh. According to official sources,MoS (MEA) Kirti V…
SRINAGAR: Accused of promoting “land jihad” through her proposed land regularisation bill, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti struck back Sunday — charging BJP with “embracing the Taliban” while allegedly branding Indian Muslims as extremists.“In the garb of accusing people of waging ‘jihad’, Muslims were lynched and demonised. Yet today, this government salutes the Taliban,” she told…
Congress MP and Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi; NC leader and Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah (File photo/ANI) NEW DELHI: The Congress will not contest the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections to four seats in Jammu and Kashmir from the “unsafe” fourth seat, the party’s Jammu and Kashmir unit announced on Sunday.J&K…
Mamata Banerjee (File photo) NEW DELHI: After facing backlash over her remarks on the Durgapur gang-rape case, West Bengal chief ministerMamata Banerjee on Sunday said her comments were “distorted” by the media.Also Read – ‘Girls have to protect themselves’: Mamata’s shocker in MBBS student rape case; vows strict action against guilty “The media distorted my…
