2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (436+ words) The Bombay High Court on Thursday, 10 September came down heavily on the Mumbai civic body over garbage piling up on city roads, saying the "whole city is full of filth" and warning that it would hold ward officers accountable if…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (475+ words) The Karnataka cabinet on Wednesday, 9 September decided to reintroduce student elections in universities and colleges, with political parties and student organisations barred from participating, deputy chief minister G. Parameshwara said. "Student elections were earlier held in colleges but were subsequently banned....

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (299+ words) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Saturday accused the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre of conspiring to remove Congress supporters from the electoral rolls in states governed by opposition parties. Addressing Congress leaders and workers in his…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (740+ words) Uttarakhand was one of 16 states part of the concluding phase of the Election Commission’s reconstruction of voter rolls in India. The draft rolls published on 14 July have 71.33 lakh names, down from the pre-SIR baseline of 79.6 lakh, a net deletion of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (222+ words) The Delhi High Court on Thursday ruled that booth-level agents appointed by political parties cannot be held responsible for verifying every detail provided in enumeration forms during the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls. Section 31 provides for imprisonment of up…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (356+ words) National Herald The ruckus by fewer than a hundred men, escorted by police, lasted an hour or so on Tuesday, 1 September, outside the gates of the Ananda Bazar Patrika office in Kolkata Within two hours of the group having dispersed,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (345+ words) Zomato has prohibited the sale of dishes containing analogue dairy products by restaurants listed on its platform, adopting a zero-tolerance policy amid increased regulatory scrutiny of food safety and adulteration. The food delivery platform said on Monday that dishes declared…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (678+ words) The Congress on Monday said the Narendra Modi government of designing the proposed Rs 84,084-crore ‘Samudra Manthan Yojana’ to benefit private companies, particularly the Adani Group, and demanded that the programme be terminated immediately. Addressing a press conference, Congress national…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (967+ words) The removal of hawkers from Kolkata and other West Bengal cities has renewed a long-running debate over protecting the livelihoods of street vendors while ensuring that pedestrians can use footpaths and roads without obstruction. Former Kolkata mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (251+ words) A school bus driver has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a three-year-old nursery student at a private school in Delhi’s Bawana area, police said on Monday. The accused, identified as Vikas, had worked at the school for about eight…...