Organisers making arrangements for Drone Show at Punnami Ghat, in Vijayawada on Monday. | Photo Credit: G.N. RAO The State government will prepare the AP Drone Policy by November-end this year, and efforts are being made to develop Andhra Pradesh as the drone capital of India, said Principal Secretary (Infrastructure and Investments) S. Suresh Kumar. … Read more
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sanjay Singh. File | Photo Credit: ANI The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday (October 12, 2024) alleged that no action has been taken against a health official who is accused of sexually harassing a lady doctor in a Delhi Government hospital. AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, in a … Read more
The Local Self Government Department on Saturday suspended an official of the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation for allegedly accepting bribes from a person who applied for an occupancy certificate. LSGD Principal Director Seeram Sambasiva Rao issued orders to suspend K.M.Shibu, who earlier served as the Superintendent of the engineering section of the Corporation for allegedly accepting a … Read more
Mass cremation of the unidentified people who lost their lives in the recent landslides at the Pithumala burial ground, in Wayanad, on Aug. 5, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI The Kerala government pegged the official death toll in the Wayanad landslide disaster at 222 even as the search for survivors and bodies of victims entered … Read more
The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has arrested a retired assistant professor, who was appointed the Jaipur district coordinator, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in the Rajasthan Eligibility Examination for Teachers (REET) question paper leak case of 2021. The accused, Pradeep Parashar, was earlier arrested by the Special Operations Group (SOG) of Rajasthan police … Read more
The Bombay High Court has directed the central government and Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) to respond to a Mumbai-based journalist’s plea for a CBI investigation against NCB Deputy Director General Gyaneshwar Singh, also noting concerns over the treatment of the complainant and the handling of related issues by officials. The court observed that the complainant … Read more
GUWAHATI The Arunachal Pradesh unit of the BJP on Tuesday expelled 28 members for six years for contesting against its official candidates in the simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections on April 19. The State has two parliamentary constituencies and 60 Assembly seats, 10 of which the BJP won uncontested. “The following list of persons … Read more
India is taking the allegations regarding the assassination plot of Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in the US seriously, the White House has said. File photo | Photo Credit: AP India is taking the allegations regarding the assassination plot of Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in the US seriously, the White House has … Read more
File image for representation. | Photo Credit: A.M. Faruqui The Uttarakhand government has agreed to translocate four tigers to Rajasthan following a request from the authorities of the western state. The process of selecting the tigers for relocation to Rajasthan has already begun, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (Wildlife) Sameer Sinha told PTI on Saturday. … Read more
Three youths nabbed by police while purportedly en route to join the banned ULFA (I) were injured when they attempted to escape from custody in Assam’s Tinsukia district, a police officer said on December 24. The incident happened late on Saturday night when the trio was being brought to Sadiya, which is a police district … Read more