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NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday bristled at attempts to pin the blame for Delhi-NCR air pollution on farm fires and asked the Union and NCR govts to detail measures taken on other pollution sources — vehicles, industries, construction, dust — and the tangible results achieved through implementation of such steps.Amicus curiae and senior advocate…
AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: AAP leader and former Delhi minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on Tuesday took a sharp yet humorous dig at the BJP’s Rekha Gupta-led Delhi government over its artificial rain experiment aimed at tackling the city’s worsening air quality.Posting a video on X titled “Even in the rain, there’s trickery,”…
Amit Malviya (ANI file photo) NEW DELHI: The BJP on Tuesday tore into AAP chief and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, accusing him of “failing miserably” in tackling the national capital’s pollution crisis, from the Yamuna’s toxic waters to Delhi’s choking air.BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya led the charge, taking a swipe at…
Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur sent on leave CHANDIGARH: Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur, in the eye of a storm following the suicide of IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, was on Monday sent on leave.Rajiv Jaitly, media adviser to Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini, confirmed the development but the official order was yet to be released till…
Electronics and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw NEW DELHI: Govt’s efforts to deepen the Indian component ecosystem for electronics has received a massive boost, with domestic and international companies putting in applications for investing over Rs 1.1 lakh crore in new projects, almost twice to the original target. This has the potential to result in creating…
Jaguar Land Rover will get backing from the UK govt for a 1.5-billion-pound ($2 billion) loan aimed at easing the strain on suppliers hit by a production halt at the carmaker that was triggered by a cyberattack.The loan, to be provided by a commercial bank and guaranteed by UK Export Finance, will be repaid over…
Arvind Kejriwal (left), Rekha Gupta (agencies) NEW DELHI: Former Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday criticised the BJP‑led government over a spate of bomb threats received by Delhi schools, saying that despite the threats, “in a year, no one has been caught, nor has any action been taken.”Earlier in the day…
NEW DELHI: Holding that public interest isn’t synonymous with the cause of govt but with enforcing accountability, Supreme Court said courts shouldn’t overlook govt negligence or condone inordinate delay in filing cases, as this amounts to institutionalising inefficiency.A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan said courts shouldn’t become a “surrogate of state…
