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The Haridwar Municipal Corporation on Monday passed a resolution to move all raw meat shops from urban areas to Sarai village on the outskirts of the city ahead of the Ardh Kumbh scheduled for early 2027. The decision was passed by a majority vote at the board meeting of the Municipal Corporation, said Mayor Kiran Jaisal. She said that all raw meat shops operating in the municipal limits would be relocated to the Sarai area, where 56 shops have been constructed for the allotment. "We have init ...Read More >

Haridwar (Uttarakhand) [India], April 8 (ANI): The Municipal Corporation has decided to relocate meat shops from the Jwalapur area in view of upcoming religious events in Haridwar. A proposal to shift raw meat shops outside the municipal limits was approved during a board meeting. Under this plan, around 56 shops will be constructed in the Sarai area, where all raw meat vendors will be relocated. The decision has been taken considering major religious gatherings in Haridwar, such as the Kumbh M ...Read More >

Haridwar (Uttarakhand) [India], April 8 (ANI): The Municipal Corporation has decided to relocate meat shops from the Jwalapur area in view of upcoming religious events in Haridwar. A proposal to shift raw meat shops outside the municipal limits was approved during a board meeting. Under this plan, around 56 shops will be constructed in the Sarai area, where all raw meat vendors will be relocated. The decision has been taken considering major religious gatherings in Haridwar, such as the Kumbh M ...Read More >

Haridwar: In a major decision ahead of the Ardh Kumbh Mela scheduled for next year, the Haridwar Municipal Corporation has resolved to relocate all meat shops from the city to Sarai village on the outskirts. The proposal, presented during the board meeting at Rishikul Auditorium, was passed by majority vote despite objections from Congress councillors. 56 new shops have already been constructed The resolution aims to remove meat shops operating in the Jwalapur area, which falls under the muni ...Read More >
Haridwar: The Haridwar Municipal Corporation board has approved a proposal to ban the sale of raw meat across its entire municipal limits ahead of the Ardh Kumbh Mela scheduled next year. The move comes days after TOI reported, citing mayor Kiran Jaisal, that "such a decision was in the offing". Under existing bylaws, the sale and consumption of meat, liquor and eggs are already prohibited within a 5-km radius of Har Ki Pauri, the city's main bathing ghat. The latest resolution extends this rest ...Read More >

West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026: As the state moves closer to the 2026 assembly elections, Banerjee faces one of the most consequential tests of her political career West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026: Clad in a simple white sari and rubber slippers, Mamata Banerjee has long cultivated the image of an outsider in Indian politics. Over decades, that outsider has become one of the system's most durable power centres, reshaping the political landscape of West Bengal and carving out a national ...Read More >
While the Jan Suraaj may be the latest to bite the dust, there have been other parties that created a strong buzz but failed to succeed at the hustings such as actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan's Makkal Needhi Maiam, which drew a blank in the 2021 Tamil Nadu assembly polls. Going forward, all eyes are now on the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), founded last year by actor-turned-politician Vijay. The debacle of Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraaj party in the Bihar assembly elections has put the spot ...Read More >

The police in Nagpur and Nashik registered FIRs against Sanjay Kumar based on complaints from two tehsildars under multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. The Supreme Court Monday stayed the FIRs against psephologist Sanjay Kumar, co-director of Lokniti, a research programme at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), over his now withdrawn claims of additions and deletions to the voters' list in Maharashtra. A bench of Chief Justice of India B R Gavai and Justice N V ...Read More >

New Delhi [India], August 25 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday stayed FIRs filed against psephologist Sanjay Kumar in a case concerning the wrong claims made by him over the election data of the State of Maharashtra. A bench led by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) BR Gavai and Justice NV Anjaria made the aforesaid decision after the counsel appearing for Kumar submitted that his client is a respected figure with 30 years of service and integrity, who made a mistake, publicly apologised and del ...Read More >

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday granted interim relief to psephologist and former CSDS director Sanjay Kumar by staying the FIRs lodged against him over a controversial social media post on voter turnout data during the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly elections. A bench of Chief Justices B. R. Gavai and Justice N. V. Anjaria directed that no coercive action be taken against Kumar, noting that he had promptly deleted the post and issued a public apology after admitting to a data misreading erro ...Read More >

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday (August 20, 2025) slammed the Opposition for disrupting Rajya Sabha proceedings, saying it was spreading lies on the Maharashtra election data, a day after research organisation CSDS issued a public apology acknowledging errors in its poll data. Follow the Parliament Monsoon session Day 20 LIVE: August 20, 2025 As the Rajya Sabha reassembled post-lunch to discuss the Indian Institutes of Management (Amendment) Bill 2025, Opposition MPs s ...Read More >

New Delhi [India], August 20 (ANI): The Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) on Wednesday issued a showcase notice to the Centre for Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) for allegedly manipulating data related to the Maharashtra elections. In a post on social media X, ICSSR alleged that CSDS had also published media stories based on a biased interpretation of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise being conducted by the Election Commission of India. It has come to the notic ...Read More >

The BJP has targeted the Congress's 'vote chori' campaign after Sanjay Kumar's apology ShowQuick Read Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed * Sanjay Kumar of CSDS apologised and deleted tweets on voter data errors in Maharashtra polls * Claims of sharp voter changes in constituencies were based on misread data from 2024 polls, he said * BJP accused Congress of spreading fake narratives using unverified CSDS data Did our AI summary help? Let us know. Switch To Beeps Mode New Delhi: ...Read More >

VISAKHAPATNAM: The depression over northwest and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal and north Andhra Pradesh - south Odisha coasts moved north-north-westwards and crossed South Odisha coast close to Gopalpur during early morning of Tuesday and lay cantered over south coastal Odisha. Weatherman said it was likely to move north-westwards across south Odisha and south Chhattisgarh and weaken into a well-marked low-pressure area during next few hours. Under its influence, thunderstorms accompani ...Read More >

Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) [India], August 19 (ANI): Psephologist Sanjay Kumar, who is the co-director of Lokniti-CSDS (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies), on Tuesday issued a clarification over a post on X concerning data of Maharashtra elections, which he deleted after issuing an apology. Sanjay Kumar told ANI that he rechecked the data after receiving information that the information in his post was wrong. Actually, we (mistakenly) compared assembly constituency number 125 (Nashik ...Read More >
The Huddle was a two-day conclave featuring thought leaders from the world of politics, business, academics, sports and the arts. This conclave saw Sri Lanka's the then leader of Opposition, Mahinda Rajapaksa, politicians Jairam Ramesh, Arif Mohammed Khan, tennis player Sania Mirza, the then Home Minister Rajnath Singh, among other leaders and academics share their ideas. Photo: MURALI KUMAR K A Mixed Legacy: The many facets of Indira Gandhi : Srinath Raghavan, Academic & Author, Jairam Ramesh ...Read More >
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