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NHRC had directed a criminal and financial probe with focus on alleged illegal recruitments and fraudulent use of madrassa land grants PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad high court has stayed an inquiry by the economic offences wing (EOW) of Uttar Pradesh Police against 558 govt-aided madrassas in the state.The probe was being conducted in compliance with directions…
HYDERABAD: The banned CPI (Maoist)’s central committee has ordered senior neta Mallojula Venugopal, 69, to immediately surrender his weapons, warning that People’s Guerrilla Army would forcibly seize them if he failed to comply.Venugopal, also known as Sonu and Bhupati, recently expressed readiness to lay down arms. Party netas dismissed his remarks as false propaganda aimed…
The eruption on Barren Island India’s only active volcano located on the uninhabited Barren Island in Andaman Sea erupted on Sept 20, presenting a visual extravaganza rare for south Asia. The episode was in fact the result of an earthquake of magnitude 4.2 that hit the region two days before the event.Though the eruption was…
NEW DELHI: An expert appraisal committee of the Union environment ministry has granted clearance to the 2,220MW Oju hydroelectric project located in a strategically important region in Arunachal Pradesh’s Upper Subansiri district bordering China. One of the largest run-of-river hydro projects in India, it will cost around Rs 25,000 crore and is likely to take…
CHANDIGARH: Nearly 57-year after a soldier was invalidated out of military on medical grounds, the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) has ruled that the widow of soldier, Lance Naik Umrawat Singh is entitled to arrears of invalid pension from 1968 and family pension from 2011.The government has been directed to release the benefits within three months.Division…
KOLKATA: At least eight people died in Kolkata Tuesday as a 7km column of cloud dumped 252mm of rain – almost 20% of what the city gets in the entire year – in the span of seven hours overnight, submerging the city that was all decked up for Durga Puja in less than a week.The…
Members of Rampur’s Team Leonine in action MEERUT: In Rampur, a city better known for its royal past, a group of young men has turned remnants of that history into something else. Disused courtyards, locked playgrounds and Nawabi-era structures aren’t tourist spots – they’re practice grounds. For nearly two decades, a group of self-taught athletes…
NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has registered a case against Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) general counsel and designated US-based terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun for having instigated Sikh soldiers to prevent Prime Minister Narendra Modi from hoisting the Indian tricolour at Red Fort here on Aug 15, and offering them a Rs 11 crore…
Savannah James opens up about setting boudnaries.(Image via Phillip Faraone/Getty) LeBron James and his wife, Savannah James, have been together since they started dating in high school. The two became parents at a pretty young age but tied the knot only after staying together for close to a decade. While LeBron James lives a comfortable…
Gisele Bundchen opened up about dating Tom Brady in the mid 200s.(Image via Matt Winkelmeyer/MG18/Getty Images) Gisele Bündchen , the former Victoria’s Secret model and Tom Brady’s ex wife, had a highly successful career before she gave up her career to raise the family she built with the NFL legend. While Gisele Bündchen has a…
