NCB Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede’s father Dhyandev Wankhede has filed a police complaint in Mumbai against Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik for allegedly making “false and derogatory” remarks against him and his family members and their caste, an official said on Tuesday. The senior Wankhede approached…
BJP General Secretary P Muralidhar Rao on Monday triggered a huge row with his statement that people belonging to Brahmin and Baniya communities are in his “pockets”. Rao, in-charge of Madhya Pradesh, came under attack from the Congress which sought an apology from the BJP leader, who later claimed the…
With all eyes on the crucial Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, the state will see the launch of several mega projects, some of which will be inauguared by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The series of projects will be launched in the months of November and December ahead of the polls due next year. The ruling BJP government…
At 19, Glasgow college student Ross Hamilton doesn’t think highly of world leaders — “they chat a lot of” nonsense — or expect them to accomplish anything on a problem he cares deeply about, climate change. But there is one former world leader Hamilton trusts, at least enough to join several hundred Glasgow…
Aspecial court, under the Prevention of Corruption Act, has acquitted Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga in two cases — one related to misuse of power and the other to possession of disproportionate assets. Two organisations — People Right to Information and Development Implementing Society of Mizoram…
BJP leader and former Mumbai Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday, November 9, accused NCP minister Nawab Malik of engaging in dubious property deals with two Bombay blast convicts. He alleged that Nawab Malik, through a company, Solidus Investments Pvt Limited, owned by his family, bought a prime property in…
The Supreme Court said troops cannot be airlifted to high border areas while hearing a petition by an NGO objecting to widening of roads in the Char Dham highway project. The Centre has told the Supreme Court that the Army required widened roads in the Char Dham highway project that goes up to the China border due to…
On a field ringed by rolling green hills in Iceland, fans attached to metal structures that look like an industrial-sized Lego project are spinning. Their mission is to scrub the atmosphere by sucking carbon dioxide from the air and storing it safely underground. Just a few years ago, this technology, known as…
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) will decide on Tuesday on a proposal by farmers’ unions of Haryana to march towards Delhi and indefinitely gherao Parliament on the first anniversary of their protest against the farm laws on November 26. The top decision making body of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a group of…
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Tuesday, November 9, said that crores of Rupees had been sought by the previous AIADMK government from the Centre in the name of the Smart City project, but they hadn’t been utilized properly. “I don’t know what happened to the funds. After all this [floods] is over, we…