The Uttarakhand high court, on Thursday, stayed the state government’s decision of cancelling mining leases or licences in Dehradun, Udham Singh Nagar, Nainital and Haridwar districts. A petition filed by a company involved in the business from Ramnagar in Nainital district after the state government had on May 1, 2017 ordered cancellation of mining leases or licences. On March 28 ...

SIT to probe death of IAS officer, submit report in 72 hours On his 36th birthday, Anurag Tiwari, a 2007 batch IAS officer of Karnataka cadre, was found dead under mysterious circumstances outside a government VIP guest house in Lucknow on Wednesday morning. Anurag, a native of Bahraich district in UP, was posted in January as Food and Civil Supplies ...

The sudden demise of veteran actress Reema Lagoo has left the film industry and her fans in shock. The senior actress passed away after suffering a cardiac arrest in Mumbai. The actress has played the reel mom of several Bollywood stars like Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Sanjay Dutt and many more in several blockbusters like ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’, ‘Kal ...

Environment Minister Anil Dave, a long-time RSS member best known for crafting the BJP strategy to unseat Congress stalwart Digvijay Singh as Madhya Pradesh chief minister in 2003, died here today. 60-year-old Dave complained of uneasiness at his home this morning and was rushed to AIIMS where he died, according to official sources. Dave was a bachelor. Prime Minister Narendra ...

A 2 per cent cess will be levied on the sale of liquor by the state government as part of the new excise policy effective from June 1, which was approved yesterday by the Cabinet. Rather than announcing major changes in the excise policy, the new BJP government has only fiddled with the old policy and announced a few changes ...

Two-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders defeated title holders Sunrisers Hyderabad by seven wickets via Duckworth-Lewis method in a rain-truncated Indian Premier League Eliminator to enter the Qualifier 2 of the tournament, in Bengaluru on Wednesday. Opting to bowl first, KKR produced a disciplined bowling and fielding effort to first restrict Sunrisers to a modest 128 for seven and then overwhelmed ...

New plants to generate 33,400 jobs, Rs 70,000-crore opportunity The government has approved a Rs 70,000-crore quantum leap in India’s nuclear energy generation capacity and a new transparent policy for fuel supply to thermal power plants that reflects the country’s swift progress from scarcity to sufficiency of domestic coal. India will set up 7,000 megawatts of nuclear capacity with 10 ...

It’s back with a bang in a new avatar — the Mussoorie Writers’ Mountain Festival (MWMF) is now the Mussoorie Mountain Festival (MMF). The three-day gala event will kick off on Thursday with the screening of selected films from the Banff Mountain Film Festival world tour and a music concert by Naga Folk and Blues performer Rewben Mashangva. The eighth ...

India will find out tomorrow if it has won its case against Pakistan at the UN’s top court over the execution of Kulbhushan Jadhav, a former naval officer, who has been sentenced to death after being convicted of espionage by a Pakistani military court. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague, which heard arguments from both countries on ...

Making its strongest pitch against triple talaq in the Supreme Court, the Centre on Wednesday brushed aside the argument that triple talaq should be allowed because it had been in practice for centuries. The Centre’s top law officer Mukul Rohatgi said instant divorce was certainly not an essential part of Islam and it could not be allowed to continue by ...