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Sheikh Hasina, Muhammad Yunus DHAKA: Former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina on Thursday accused the Muhammad Yunus-headed interim govt of pushing the country towards darkness, while her party Awami League said despite decades of peaceful coexistence, extremist groups are “emboldened” and minority communities are increasingly being branded as “political enemies”.“The masks and vile faces of the…
NEW DELHI: A government-constituted magisterial inquiry has found that the Goa nightclub where a devastating fire killed 25 people in early December was built illegally on a salt pan and operated for months without valid permissions, pointing to systemic failures and alleged collusion by local authorities, as reported by news agency PTI.The fire broke out…
GHAZIABAD: A National Green Tribunal-ordered inspection of the Yamuna floodplains lying between Delhi and Ghaziabad has found largescale violations by miners, corroborating a TOI report on Nov 30 last year about an embankment being built across the river to illegally dredge sand.The joint committee report, submitted to NGT after surprise inspections on both Delhi and…
GUWAHATI: Violent tribal protests against illegal non-tribal settlement in a constitutionally protected hill region of Assam left two people dead Tuesday – as Sixth Schedule protections and land rights ignited a volatile fault line. Assam DGP Harmeet Singh, IGP (law and order) Akhilesh Kumar Singh and 48 police personnel were wounded after crowds armed with…
NEW DELHI: “Pay up and meet inmate at Tihar Jail” may sound unusual, but relatives of prisoners were reportedly being made to pay for such meetings that are legally free. The racket was exposed after an inmate alerted the jail, triggering the transfer of multiple data entry operators. Delhi Headlines Today — The Biggest Updates…
Supreme Court regularises BDS degrees of Rajasthan students In recent years, several admissions to private medical and dental colleges have come under legal scrutiny over deviations from NEET-based selection norms. One such long-running dispute involved students admitted to private dental colleges in Rajasthan during the 2016–17 academic session after qualifying criteria were relaxed at the…
JAISALMER: Six people, including a German couple, were detained on Thursday night for alleged illegal religious conversions in Sriganganagar. The incident was reported from a rented house in the district’s Srikaranpur town, located close to the India-Pakistan border.Those detained were identified as German nationals Swan Baz Bat Jaler and his wife Sandra, Santosh Varghese from…
Live-in not illegal, it’s state’s duty to protect such couples: Allahabad HC Prayagraj: Allahabad high court has ruled that while a live-in relationship may not be acceptable to all, it cannot be said that it is ‘illegal’ or that living together without the sanctity of marriage constitutes an offence.Holding that the right to human life…
NEW DELHI: Probing an organised cybercrime network involving the use of over 20,000 illegally procured SIM cards, CBI conducted raids in Delhi, Noida and Chandigarh over the weekend and discovered a ‘phishing factory’ that was using SIM boxes — devices that can hold hundreds of SIMs cards, disguise international calls and bypass telecom rules —…
The Viksit Bharat Adhishthan Bill proposes a minimum ₹2-crore penalty and immediate closure for illegal universites and higher education institutes. A proposed overhaul of India’s higher education law could make it significantly harder for unauthorised universities to exist and far easier for regulators to shut them down. The Viksit Bharat Adhishthan Bill proposes a minimum…
