NEW DELHI: With India gearing up to submit its updated climate action pledge ahead of the UN climate summit (COP30) next month, the Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav on Saturday headed to Brazil for a pre-COP meeting, scheduled on Oct 13-14in Brasilia, to put forward the country’s expectation from the main annual conference next month.Besides…
NEW DELHI: Former chief justice of India Sanjiv Khanna said on Saturday that every instance of failure to act in matters that have financial implications cannot be termed a white-collar crime.He said this while speaking at the “National Conference on White Collar Crime”, organised by the Terapanth Professional Forum.“White-collar crime is a cliche which we…
HYDERABAD: Telangana’s Congress govt has decided to approach Supreme Court against an HC stay on a hike in Backward Classes (BC) quota from 25% to 42% for local body polls on Oct 23, reports Roushan Ali.Chief minister A Revanth Reddy took the decision at a meeting held late Friday with Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Congress Rajya…
NEW DELHI: After an over fiveyear lull, India and China will ramp up their direct air connectivity. IndiGo Saturday announced a daily direct flight between Delhi and Guangzhou from Nov 10, shortly after the airline links Kolkata and Guangzhou from October 26. Air India is also set to fly to China before the end of…
Kerala Police registered Saturday a case in connection with alleged theft of Sabarimala temple’s gold, naming 10 people as accused. The 10 include an individual described as “sponsor” Unnikrishnan Potti, with whom a Chennai firm had allegedly deposited some gold after plating work in 2019 but which was never returned to Sabarimala authorities. Source link
BHOPAL: The MP SIT probing the Coldrif tragedy that claimed the lives of 20 kids from Chhindwara and three from other districts is examining the entire supply chain of the cough syrup — from procurement of raw materials to distribution of the contaminated drug — aiming to fix accountability at every stage. Investigators confirmed that…
shehbaz sharif (left), Amir Muttaqi and S Jaishankar (File – agencies) Pakistan has lodged formal objections with Afghanistan’s Ambassador in Islamabad over several ‘elements of the India‑Afghanistan joint statement’, particularly the reference to Jammu and Kashmir as ‘part of India’. It also rejected remarks by Afghan foreign minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi that “terrorism is…
NEW DELHI: The ED late on Friday arrested Reliance Power’s chief financial officer Ashok Pal after questioning him at its headquarters here in a case of fake bank guarantee. He was produced before a court here on Saturday and remanded in two days of ED custody. Pal, the CFO of Reliance Power Limited (RPL), an…
NEW DELHI: Justice Surya Kant, who will take over as CJI next month, on Saturday said that while eastern and north-eastern India are rich in diversity and potential, the young generation there faces grave challenges such as child marriage, narcotic substance abuse, and marginalisation of tribals and tea garden workers.Inaugurating the National Legal Services Authority’s…
JAMMU: A 17-year-old girl died after being hit by an unknown vehicle in Kathua on Friday night while at least 10 people were injured when their vehicle was hit by a landslide at Sigdi Balana area of Kishtwar district on Saturday, police said.Police said the victim in the first accident, Kritika Pansotra, was the daughter…
