NEW DELHI: Flagging lapses by civic authorities, the Supreme Court on Wednesday observed that fatalities across the country are being caused not just by dog bites, but also by road accidents involving stray animals.A bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and N V Anjaria made the remarks while hearing pleas seeking modification of its…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said the safety of people in Venezuela is India’s primary concern amid the crisis following US military operations in the country and the capture of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife.Speaking in Luxembourg, Jaishankar urged all parties involved in the crisis to sit down and reach…
NEW DELHI/ LUCKNOW: About 2.9 crore voters, making up 18.7% of UP’s 15.4 crore-strong electorate at the launch of the state’s SIR exercise on Nov 4 last year, have been struck off the draft rolls published on Tuesday.These voters have time till February 6 to file claims and objections to get their names restored in…
Another 25.5 lakh, constituting over 1.6% of the electorate, were enrolled at two places. A total of 79.5 lakh (5.1%) voters couldn’t be traced while 46.2 lakh (almost 3%) were dead. More than 7.7 lakh (0.5%) voters didn’t return filled-in enumeration forms.Lucknow reported the highest percentage of deletions at 30%, followed by Ghaziabad (28.8%), Balrampur…
NEW DELHI: Over 9,000 birds across 131 species were spotted along Yamuna floodplains in the capital during the Asian Waterbird Census this weekend.The survey, carried out by a group of nearly 20 birders in collaboration with eBird, an online avian database, flagged several ecological threats to the habitat, including illegal sand mining on the floodplains,…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday observed the unusually high number of interlocutory applications being filed in the stray dogs case. It also remarked that these many applications are not even seen in human cases.A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta observed this when two lawyers mentioned the interlocutory application filed by…
NEW DELHI: Senior counsel appearing for Congress parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday sought time from a Delhi court to file a reply in a revision petition challenging the inclusion of her name in the electoral rolls. The panel has cited that the records in question are several decades old. The court has now…
NEW DELHI: Sparks flew in SC as Telangana opposed Andhra Pradesh’s Polavaram-Nallamala Sagar Project (PNSP) with A Revanth Reddy-led govt accusing AP of attempting to misappropriate its share of Godavari water and N Chandrababu Naidu-led govt charging Telangana of attempting to stall farmer-friendly projects even after taking erstwhile capital city Hyderabad.Telangana through senior advocate A…
NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh commissioned the Indian Coast Guard’s (ICG) first indigenously designed and built pollution control vessel ‘Samudra Pratap’ in Goa on Monday, saying the ship will “bolster India’s self-confidence”. The 114.5-metre vessel, built by Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL), has over 60% of indigenous content.During the commissioning of ‘Samudra Pratap’ in Goa,…
AMRITSAR: The officiating Jathedar of Akal Takht, Giani Kuldip Singh Gargajj, has summoned Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann to appear at its secretariat on Jan 15 over alleged “anti-Sikh remarks”, “objectionable conduct”, and a recently surfaced video that the Takht says deeply hurt Sikh sentiments.Mann posted on X that he would appear before Sri Akal Takht…