Indore, Jul 3 (PTI) Around 19 tonnes of soil containing residual toxic waste from the defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal has been incinerated and reduced to ashes at a disposal plant in Madhya Pradesh's Pithampur town, an official said on Thursday. Earlier, 337 tonnes of the waste from the factory premises had been incinerated in multiple phases at the same facility, located 30 km from here, he said. At least 5,479 people were killed and thousands were maimed after the highly toxic methyl...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 3 (PTI) Softbank-backed e-commerce firm Meesho has filed a draft paper with markets regulator Sebi through confidential route, sources aware of the development said. The resolution to launch an IPO was passed in the Extraordinary General Meeting on June 25. The company shared its plans to raise at least Rs 4,250 crore in the initial public offering. "Meesho has filed DRHP with Sebi through confidential route," sources said on Thursday. However, the total size of the IPO compris...Read More
Ranchi, Jul 3 (PTI) Jharkhand Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar on Thursday visited former international hockey player Bimal Lakra, who is undergoing treatment at a Ranchi hospital, an official said. The governor visited the hospital and talked to the attending doctors regarding the progress of Lakra's treatment and wished him a speedy recovery, according to an official statement issued by Raj Bhavan. "Lakra brought laurels to the nation as well as the state in the field of hockey. The entire sta...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 3 (PTI) Former Delhi minister and AAP leader Satyendar Jain appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday for questioning in a money laundering case linked to alleged corruption in the augmentation of some Delhi Jal Board sewage treatment plants, official sources said. Jain, 60, reached the federal probe agency's office here around 11:15 am and his statement was recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they said. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) poli...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 3 (PTI) Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Wednesday urged the general public to plant trees in tribute to their mothers under the government's 'Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam 2.0' initiative. Gupta, who inaugurated a month-long Van Mahotsav at Bharat Mandapam, said, "The Delhi government is committed to a greener Delhi, and in this 2.0 version, we will ensure that every Delhiite participates. I appeal to people to plant as many trees as possible and work together to improve the environment...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 3 (PTI) Actor Harshaali Malhotra, popular for her role of Munni in Salman Khan-starrer "Bajrangi Bhaijaan", has joined the cast of "Akhanda 2: Thaandavam". The upcoming Telugu film is a sequel to the 2021 release "Akhanda". Directed by Boyapati Sreenu, who also helmed the first part, the film is slated to hit the big screen on September 25. It stars Nandamuri Balakrishna in the lead. Malhotra,17, will play Janani in the film, which also marks her Telugu debut. Production and di...Read More
Chandigarh, Jul 3 (PTI) Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday expanded his Cabinet, inducting newly elected Ludhiana West MLA Sanjeev Arora as minister. Governor Gulab Chand Kataria administered oath of office and secrecy to Arora at a ceremony at the Raj the Bhavan here. Mann, Cabinet ministers and several other party leaders were present on the occasion. With Arora's induction, the strength of the Cabinet in the Mann government reached 17. The Punjab Cabinet can have 18 ministers,...Read More
Bhubaneswar, Jul 3 (PTI) Odisha has achieved a tangible change in the school education system and ranked 5th in the country as per the Performance Grading Index (PGI-2.) between 2019-20 and 2023-2024 when BJD president Naveen Patnaik was the chief minister, officials said on Thursday. The state was ranked 14th rank in 2019-2020. The PGI 2.0 evaluates school education through 73 indicators across two categories: Outcomes and Governance & Management. BJD president Naveen Patnaik posted on X: "G...Read More
Kolkata, Jul 2 (PTI) Senior BJP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya was on Thursday officially declared the new president of its West Bengal unit, and he will lead the party into the 2026 assembly elections. Sixty-one-year-old Bhattacharya was elected unopposed, with no other candidate filing nomination for the post by the stipulated deadline of Wednesday afternoon. The formal announcement came during a felicitation ceremony at Science City here, in the presence of senior BJP leader a...Read More
Lucknow, Jul 3 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh Cabinet on Thursday approved a proposal to dissolve the society constituted for the Jayaprakash Narayan International Centre (JPNIC) project. The decision also entailed that its reins will be handed over to the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA). The decision was taken at the cabinet meeting chaired by UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Briefing reporters after the cabinet meeting, State Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna said, "It has been decided to dis...Read More
Gurugram, Jul 3 (PTI) Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday said urban local bodies (ULBs) should function on the lines of Parliament with regular Question Hour and Zero Hour to raise issues concerning citizens. He was addressing the first National Level Conference of Urban Local Bodies in States and Union Territories. "I am pained to hear about meetings of ULBs getting adjourned amid pandemonium and key agenda such as budget getting approved without any discussion," Birla said. ULBs should ...Read More
Bengaluru, Jul 3 (PTI) BJP leader R Ashoka on Thursday said Chief Minister CM Siddaramaiah's "repeated chest-thumping" about completing a full term, despite the supposed "power-sharing agreement", was nothing short of a direct snub to the Congress high command. When a sitting CM keeps reiterating his own permanence while conveniently ignoring the party's internal commitments, "it's not confidence, it's defiance," the Leader of Opposition in Karnataka Assembly said. Siddaramaiah had on Wednesda...Read More
Kuppam (Andhra Pradesh), Jul 3 (PTI) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday inaugurated the state's first Tata Digital Nerve Centre (DiNC) in Chittoor district, which offers connected, continuous, proactive, and patient-centric healthcare to strengthen public health infrastructure. Linked to 13 primary health centres (PHCs) and 92 village health centres, the Tata DiNC offers 12 primary healthcare services and digitalises patients' health records. "Chief Minister Chandrab...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 3 (PTI) The makers of "Ramayana", billed as an ambitious cinematic event, on Thursday unveiled the first glimpse of the upcoming mythological epic, featuring Ranbir Kapoor, Yash and Sai Pallavi in the lead roles. Directed by Nitesh Tiwari and produced by Namit Malhotra's Prime Focus Studios and DNEG, in association with Yash's Monster Mind Creations, the film is a two-part live-action saga set 5,000 years ago and rooted in one of Indian mythology's most enduring epics, a press re...Read More
Agartala, Jun 3 (PTI) BJP MLA Kishor Barman on Thursday took oath as a cabinet minister in Tripura. The 44-year-old MLA of Nalchar constituency in Sepahijala district was administered the oath of office by Governor N Indrasena Reddy at Raj Bhavan. With the induction of the new minister, the strength of the cabinet of Chief Minister Manik Saha rose to 12. In the 12-member cabinet, the BJP has now nine members, including the chief minister, while the Tipra Motha Party (TMP) has two ministers an...Read More
Shimla, Jul 3 (PTI) With the recovery of two more bodies, the death toll in the cloudburst and flash flood-related incidents in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi has mounted to 13 while search is underway for 29 others missing, officials said on Thursday. Ten cloudbursts, three flash floods and a landslide were witnessed in different parts of Mandi district on Tuesday. Officials said two bodies were recovered this morning. While seven bodies were recovered from Gohar, five were from Thunag and one in K...Read More
Kuppam (Andhra Pradesh), July 3 (PTI) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday reiterated that YSRCP leaders are 'attempting to manipulate' the widow of C Singayya, who recently allegedly fell under the wheel of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's convoy and died. Naidu's remarks come in the wake of Singayya's widow, Mary, expressing serious suspicion over the death of her husband and alleging that something would have happened in the ambulance. On June 18, YSRCP president Jagan Mohan ...Read More
Bengaluru, Jul 3 (PTI) Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw on Thursday opposed Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's remarks linking covid-19 vaccines with a spate of heart attack deaths in the state's Hassan district, saying such claims are "'factually incorrect" and "misleading". Siddaramaiah has suggested that the recent heart attack deaths in Hassan district may be linked to the vaccination drive. He had also claimed the vaccines were 'hastily' approved. In a social media post, Shaw said ...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 3 (PTI) India's demographic health survey 2019-21 reveals that 13 per cent of children were born prematurely, and 17 per cent with a low weight at birth, with air pollution contributing to the adverse birth outcomes. Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, and institutes in the UK and Ireland looked at the National Family Health Survey-5 and remote sensing data to analyse how exposure to air pollution in...Read More
Bengaluru, Jul 3 (PTI) The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast widespread rainfall across Karnataka over the next seven days, with "heavy to very heavy rain" expected in several districts and "extremely heavy rainfall" likely at isolated locations. The weather pattern is being influenced by the monsoon trough passing through central and eastern India, along with an offshore trough extending along the Maharashtra-Karnataka coast, the IMD said in a statement. According to daily w...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 3 (PTI) Bollywood actor Disha Patani, known for "Kalki 2898 AD", "Radhe" and "Baaghi 2", will have a cameo in Vishal Bhardwaj's upcoming film with Shahid Kapoor. Bhardwaj, known for films such as "Maqbool", "Kaminey" and "Omkara", confirmed Patani's role in the film with an Instagram post on Wednesday evening. The 59-year-old filmmaker shared a picture alongside the actor. The caption read, "Excited to have the stunning @dishapatani join us for a dazzling cameo specially writte...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 3 (PTI) In an apparent snub to China, Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday asserted that the decision on the Incarnation of the Dalai Lama would be taken by the established institution and the Dalai Lama himself and no one else. On Wednesday, Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama said that the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue and only the Gaden Phodrang Trust will have the authority to recognise his future reincarnation. Talking to reporters here, Rijiju s...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 3 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Thursday restrained Patanjali from running disparaging advertisements against Dabur Chyawanprash. Justice Mini Pushkarna allowed the interim injunction on Dabur's plea, which alleged "Patanjali Special Chyawanprash" was "disparaging DABUR Chyawanprash specifically" and Chyawanprash in general, by claiming that "no other manufacturer has the knowledge to prepare Chyawanprash" -- constituting generic disparagement. "In addition, false and misleading...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 3 (PTI) The Supreme Court has said insurance companies are not liable to pay compensation to the families of individuals who die as a result of their own rash and reckless driving. A bench of Justices PS Narasimha and R Mahadevan refused to grant 80 lakh compensation sought by the wife, son and parents of a man who died while driving a car at high speed. The top court refused to interfere with the Karnataka High Court's order dated November 23 last year which had dismissed the p...Read More
Kolkata, Jul 3 (PTI) Senior West Bengal BJP leader Dilip Ghosh on Thursday morning walked on the streets of Durgapur city with a 'damru' as a symbolic act to "awaken people". His act comes amid Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya's election as the new state BJP president, with no other candidate filing nomination for the post till the deadline on Wednesday. When asked about the 'damru' (hand drum), the former BJP state president said, "It's Shravan month... Lord Shiva beats the damru to awaken e...Read More
Mumbai, Jul 3 (PTI) Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Thursday demanded an apology from Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and state minister Nitesh Rane over their past remarks against Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray in connection with Disha Salian death case. Former celebrity manager Disha Salian died on June 8, 2020, after falling off the 14th floor of a residential building in Malad area of Mumbai. The city police had then registered an Accidental Death Report (ADR). The police,...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 3 (PTI) HDFC Bank CEO and MD Sashidhar Jagdishan on Thursday moved the Supreme Court challenging an FIR of cheating and fraud registered against him on a complaint filed by the Lilavati Kirtilal Mehta Medical Trust, which runs the prominent Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai. Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for Jagdishan, mentioned the matter for urgent listing before a bench of Justices M M Sundresh and K Vinod Chandran. The bench said the matter would be listed for hearing o...Read More
Bhubaneswar, Jul 3 (PTI) The Odisha government on Thursday sought information from public regarding the stampede that took place near Shree Gundicha Temple in Puri during a ceremony related to ongoing Rath Yatra festivities in which three persons were killed and 50 others injured. The state government through a public notice urged the people to share information, video footage or any other materials related to the stampede which took place early on Sunday for a proper and transparent inquiry in...Read More
Jammu, Jul 3 (PTI) Amid tight security, the second batch of more than 5,200 pilgrims left the base camp here on Thursday for the Amarnath cave shrine in South Kashmir Himalayas, officials said. The 38-day pilgrimage to the 3,880-metre-high shrine commenced on Thursday via the twin tracks -- the traditional 48-km-long Nunwan-Pahalgam route in Anantnag district and the 14-km shorter but steeper Baltal route in Ganderbal district. The yatra will conclude on August 9. The pilgrims left the Bhagwat...Read More
Sangareddy (Telangana), Jul 3 (PTI) As many as nine people are still missing in the explosion at the Sigachi Industries' pharma plant in Pashamylaram that claimed at least 38 lives and left 35 injured, and efforts are on to trace them, Superintendent of Police (SP) of this district, Paritosh Pankaj, said on Thursday. Meanwhile, the expert committee appointed by the state government to ascertain the causes and establish the sequence of events that led to the explosion is expected to visit the si...Read More