Hyderabad: Amid chaos, protests and orders, HYDRAA officials removed the tens of illegal borewells installed at Madhapur's Sunnam Cheruvu on Monday. Water tanker businesses had illegally dug borewells on the lake, collected polluted water and sold it to nearby hostels and PGs. A case had been booked last week. HYDRAA, along with removing the illegal borewells, also razed the borewell sheds raised on the lake's full tank level (FTL), and seized the water tankers. Commissioner A.V. Ranganath said...Read More
SRINAGAR: Sajad Gani Lone, former minister and chairman of Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference (JKPC) on Monday announced the formation of a new political alliance called the People's Alliance for Change (PAC) in Jammu and Kashmir. The alliance includes the People's Democratic Front (PDF), led by Hakeem Yaseen, and the Justice and Development Front (JDF), a political party backed by a faction of proscribed Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir. While speaking to reporters here, the alliance lead...Read More
New Delhi: Starting July 2025, goods and services tax or GST compliance will undergo a shift with two key changes -- locking of GSTR-3B forms and a three-year deadline for filing returns. These changes, introduced by the GST Council, aim to improve accuracy and transparency in return filing, while reducing mismatches and fraudulent claims. The move is aimed at ensuring consistency between GSTR-1 (which records outward supplies) and GSTR-3B (used to pay tax), reducing revenue leakages due to mism...Read More
Vijayawada: Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu has said his vision is to develop Quantum Valley in state capital Amaravati on the lines of Silicon Valley in the US. A Quantum Computing ecosystem, he said, should be set up and made fully operational in Amaravati by Jan 1, 2026. Addressing the participants of a national workshop on 'Amaravati Quantum Valley' here on Monday, the chief minister said he wanted to transform Amaravati into a global capital for quantum technologies. The mega event ...Read More
Warangal: The decision to appoint former MLC N. Ramchander Rao as Telangana BJP president has energised the party cadre: workers and leaders have extended congratulations to Ramchander Rao, although some followers of other key figures, who had hoped their candidate would be chosen for the state chief post, are deeply disappointed. Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, BJP leader and former Choppadandi MLA Bodiga Shoba, who joined the party along with former minister and MP Etala Rajendar, said that eve...Read More
Mumbai, June 30: Drug-maker Sigachi Industries on Monday said that its pharma factory at Pashamylaram Phase-1 in Medak district would be shut for 90 days following extensive damage and loss of human life in the fire accident that broke out at the premises, the company informed stock exchanges. At the affected facility, the company manufactured microcrystalline cellulose, a refined fibrous plant material in powder form used in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and food production. Sigachi Industries i...Read More
Hyderabad: With heat rising to elect a new president for Telangana Unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), senior advocate and former MLC N. Ramchander Rao emerged as the front-runner to the post. Reports suggest that Ramchander Rao is all set to be appointed as president of the BJP Telangana unit, as the party's high command finalised his candidacy. The BJP recently issued the official notification for the internal party elections with the election expected on July 1. There are only two names ...Read More
New Delhi: Dismissing Opposition's protest against Bihar's Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the Chief Election Commissioner of India (CEC) Mr Gyanesh Kumar on Monday said the objective of SIR is to ensure no voter is left out, and, at the same time also to see that no ineligible voter is included in the electoral roll. Justifying the move for SIR for which the electors have to provide any one of the listed 11 documents to prove their domicile, the Election Commission of India (ECI) said the SI...Read More
New Delhi: All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) MP Samirul Islam on Monday alleged that Bengali-speaking migrant workers are facing "persecution" in BJP-ruled states, and being branded as "Bangladeshis." "The persecution of Bengali-speaking migrant workers continues unabated in BJP-ruled states. Despite possessing valid documents, many poor workers from Bengal are being wrongly branded as Bangladeshis. They are being harassed in every possible way -? including illegal detention and forcible push...Read More
Bhubaneswar: Rail traffic was briefly disrupted Monday morning after three wagons of a goods train derailed near Cuttack Railway Station in Odisha. The incident occurred at 8.43 am while the empty freight train was en route to Paradip. According to East Coast Railway (ECoR) sources, the derailment happened on Route No. 8 (loop line) within the Cuttack Yard, likely during a track change. Fortunately, no injuries or casualties were reported. Although the derailment happened close to the station,...Read More
Shimla: As monsoon remained active in Himachal Pradesh, news of rain-induced damages, building collapse, landslides and road blockades poured in on Monday. A five-storey building collapsed in Bhattakufer in the suburbs of Shimla on Monday morning, while several cows from a shed washed away in the cloudburst in Rampur. The building at Mathu Colony on the road to Chamiyana Super Speciality Hospital caved in, albeit without casualties as the district administration, sensing grave risk, had already...Read More
Hyderabad: Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Monday expressed anguish over the explosion at Sigachi Pharma Company in the Pashamylaram industrial estate and directed officials to take all steps to save the trapped workers and provide them advanced medical care. Several workers are feared trapped at the accident site in the pharma company and efforts were on to rescue them, official sources said. The injured people were shifted to hospitals and their condition was not known immediately, as the ...Read More
Navi Mumbai: The father of a three-day-old girl who was found abandoned in a blue basket outside Navi Mumbai's Panvel wad traced and detained on Sunday, the police said. According to them, the infant's parents were not financially stable enough to raise her. Due to this, the couple decided to give up the baby to an orphanage that could look after her, reported PTI. However, the Navi Mumbai police's crime branch traced the infant's father, Aman Iqbal Kondkar, a resident of Thane's Bhiwandi, withi...Read More
Hyderabad: With law enforcement agencies in many cases found to be violating the law by illegally intercepting the mobile phones of Opposition leaders and a wide section of society, the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre has proposed to amend the law and issue guidelines for intercepting phones, sources said on Sunday. According to the proposed guidelines, state governments and its investigation agencies will be limited to intercept mobile phones in their respective states, a senior police of...Read More
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The recruitment of police inspectors will now be conducted along the lines of the Public Service Commission (PSC) framework by the Employees Selection Board (ESB), which will conduct the exam, officials said. The last recruitment for sub-inspector (SI) posts was conducted by the then recruitment agency Vyapam in 2018. Officials said that earlier, the plan was to engage PSC in conducting the exam, but due to technical reasons, it was decided that the ESB would handle the...Read More
Hyderabad: The Chikkadpally police have added a case under the Pocso Act, for crimes against a minor, against Purna Chandar Badhavath, who was arrested for the abetment to the suicide of TV anchor Shwetcha Votarkar, inspector B. Raju Naik told Deccan Chronicle. Purna was remanded to judicial custody on charges of abetment to suicide following a complaint from Votarkar's father V. Shankar, who alleged that Badhavath had promised her marriage but broke it. According to the inspector, Badhavath s...Read More
Kolkata: A two-member National Commission for Women team on Sunday visited the south Kolkata law college where a student was allegedly gang-raped last week.The team, accompanied by a videographer, was initially denied entry and asked to produce a formal order. After an hour-long discussion at the college entrance, the team, led by Archana Majumdar, was allowed in under two conditions -- no access to the crime scene and no videography permitted.The visit lasted 10 minutes. "We were denied access ...Read More
Hyderabad: Telangana BJP president and Union minister G. Kishan Reddy stressed that the election of his successor on July 1 should be unanimous and reflect the unity in the party. The notification for the election was released on Sunday and nominations will be accepted on Monday in presence of party's senior leaders including general secretary Sunil Bansal and the Union minister of state Shobha Karandlaje, who is incharge of party's state president election. On other issues, Kishan Reddy charge...Read More
New Delhi: Playing on the remarks of iconic anti-Emergency politicians in his monthly radio broadcast, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday slammed the then Congress government for atrocities on people and said those who fought Emergency should always be remembered "to keep our Constitution strong and enduring". Speaking in his monthly radio broadcast "Mann ki Baat", Mr Modi said that those who imposed the Emergency not only "murdered" the Constitution but also made the judiciary their "puppe...Read More
New Delhi: The monsoon on Sunday covered Delhi two days after the normal date of June 27 and advanced over the remaining parts of the country nine days before the usual date of July 8. The national capital, meanwhile, received light rainfall on Sunday, bringing a slight respite from the hot and humid weather. The minimum temperature in Delhi settled at 26.8 degrees Celsius, 1.1 notch below the season's average. A yellow alert has been issued for the Delhi-NCR area, with the IMD forecasting gene...Read More
KOLKATA: The student's gangrape by a young Trinamul Congress leader and his aides at South Calcutta Law College has triggered a storm within the ruling party of West Bengal, thanks to its elected representatives' tirade against the victim, their fellows and party lines. On Sunday, Kamarhati MLA Madan Mitra questioned the 24-year-old student's purpose to visit her academic institution on the fateful day. This was the second time in a span of 24 hours when he stumped his party that already disapp...Read More
Haridwar: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Sakshi Maharaj on Sunday demanded that hotel, dhaba and eatery owners on the Kanwar Yatra routes should display their names and identities on boards outside their business establishments. The owners, who hide their identities under fake names, on the Kanwar Yatra routes should not be spared, he told reporters here. "Tampering with faith of the Hindu devotees during the Kanwar Yatra will not be tolerated," said the Unnao MP. The food shops on the Kanwa...Read More
Bhopal: Seven engineers including two chief engineers (CEs) of the Madhya Pradesh government have been suspended while departmental enquiry has been ordered against a retired superintendent engineer (SE) in the connection with the faulty design of a railway over bridge (ROB) here, providing a dangerous 90-degree turn. The action against the engineers comes after chief minister Mohan Yadav took serious note of the issue and ordered an inquiry into it, a spokesman of the state government said her...Read More
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Bengaluru Crime: A woman's body, believed to be between 30 and 35 years old, was found stuffed inside a sack and dumped in a garbage truck in Bengaluru early Thursday. The identity of the woman is yet to be confirmed. Police said the sack was discovered by BBMP sanitation workers who immediately alerted the authorities. The body was found with her hands and neck tied, raising strong suspicion of murder. Officials stated that the body had been placed inside a gunny bag before being thrown into t...Read More
New Delhi: Union minister of state for civil aviation Murlidhar Mohol on Sunday said the investigating agencies were examining all angles in the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, and this included the possibility of sabotage. He said that CCTV footage and passports of passengers were being scrutinised as part of this probe. He added the crash was a rare case and noted that both engines shutting down simultaneously was unprecedented. He said the AAIB had commenced an investigation into the cra...Read More
New Delhi/Shimla/Uttarkashi: A cloudburst in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district early Sunday left two construction workers dead and seven missing as monsoon covered the entire country almost a week earlier than usual, bringing rain in the national capital and other northern states, triggering landslides in several hilly areas and sending rivers into spate. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a red alert for heavy rainfall on June 29 and 30 in various districts of Uttarakhand, in...Read More
Mayurbhanj (Odisha) [India], June 29 (ANI): The second phase of the Baripada Rath Yatra in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district resumed on Sunday, drawing thousands of devotees to the streets as the sacred chariots of Lord Balabhadra, Goddess Subhadra, and Lord Jagannath continued their journey. Steeped in devotion and distinguished by tradition, the Baripada Rath Yatra, also known as the Dwitiya Srikhetra in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, began on Saturday, a day after Rath Yatra in Puri. Also Read | ...Read More
Hyderabad: HYDRAA officials cleared long-standing encroachments raised on a 1,533-sq. yard parkland in Yellareddyguda's Sai Saradhinagar, near the Madhuranagar Metro Rail station, on Sunday. The parkland was created in a 1961 layout of the five-acre Sai Saradhinagar, but had been occupied for decades by the descendants of Narayana Prasad who raised sheds, structures and temporary residential tents, HYDRAA said. The agency said that the encroachers got a house number for the structure by 'managi...Read More
New Delhi: The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has set July 31 deadline for mandatory registration of all the coaches -- qualified and unqualified -- in the country in its bid to tackle spiralling doping cases, making it clear that non compliance of the directive will lead to their blacklisting. In its latest circular, following its decision in the January Annual General Body Meeting (AGM) to crack the whip on coaches suspected to be involved in doping of their wards, the AFI said that unre...Read More
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir administration has not utilised nearly half of the central funds allocated for building underground bunkers for border residents over the last five years, according to information obtained through a Right to Information (RTI) application.The revelation comes amid heightened calls for civilian safety, following last month's Operation Sindoor and the intense cross-border shelling. Responding to the Right To Information application filed by Jammu-based activist Raman K...Read More