Bullet train: HC wants to hear experts for decision on killing mangroves
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday said it will have to hear environmental experts before deciding on a plea seeking hacking of mangroves to pave way for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project. A division bench of Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice NM Jamdar was hearing an application filed by the...
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Shun arms, violence: Malik
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Amit Shah to hold party meet today
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BJP reconstitutes parliamentary party executive committee
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Pompeo to discuss ‘ambitious agenda’ for Indo-US strategic ties with Modi, Jaishankar
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Thirsty Deoli dying for water
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Site is Amarnath Yatra base area
Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad’s affiliate Al Umar Mujahideen on Wednesday carried out a major attack killing five CRPF personnel and injuring four other security men about a fortnight before the Amarnath Yatra in Anantnag district, also the base area for the pilgrimage to the cave shrine. Counter-terrorism expert Dr Rituraj Mate...
UK High Court notes broad consistency in India’s evidence against Nirav Modi
A UK High Court judge on Wednesday accepted a broad consistency of evidence put forward by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), arguing on behalf of the Indian Government, in the extradition case against fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi. Justice Ingrid Simler read out a detailed judgment at the Royal Courts of...
Nirav’s bail rejected for 4th time
The UK High Court on Wednesday rejected Nirav Modi’s bail application, his fourth attempt as the diamond merchant fights his extradition from Britain to India in the nearly USD 2 billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud and money laundering case. In her judgment handed down at the Royal Courts of Justice...
China appoints veteran diplomat Sun Weidong as new envoy to India
Veteran Chinese diplomat Sun Weidong, an expert on South Asia who worked closely with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar during his tenure as Ambassador in Beijing, has been appointed as the country’s new envoy to India. Sun, who also served as the ambassador to Pakistan, is currently the Director General of the...
US ambassador to India to highlight bilateral strategic ties at Houston event
US Ambassador to India Kenneth Juster is set to highlight the strategic relationship between the two countries and the bilateral trade at an event organised by Indo-American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Houston on Saturday, IACCGH said. Juster was invited to the 20th gala celebrations of the chamber to deliver a...
UP Bar Council 1st woman chief shot.
The newly-elected first woman Bar Council chairperson of Uttar Pradesh, Darvesh Singh Yadav, was gunned down in Agra on Wednesday by a long-time acquaintance who tried to commit suicide and is battling for life with bullet injuries. On Wednesday, Darvesh attended a felicitation programme on the Civil Court premises in Agra...
‘100% Govt funding for schools on Waqf properties’
A day after announcing scholarship for 5 crore minority students, Union Minister for Minority affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Wednesday announced that all waqf properties across India would be geo-tagged and digitised and that the Government will provide 100 per cent funding to develop educational institutions and hospitals on such...
