SC said all donations must be deposited in temple donation boxes or credited online into the temple account. NEW DELHI: The SC Tuesday took strong exception to the report of the court-appointed high-powered committee (HPC) headed by a retired HC judge that donations at Banke Bihari temple at Vrindavan are being pocketed by sevayats and...
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Govt seeks 2 years to frame creamy layer criteria for PSU, private staff kids
The SG said Centre was not seeking review or modification of the judgement. NEW DELHI: Seeking two years to frame creamy layer criteria for OBCs, Centre Tuesday requested Supreme Court for an early hearing on its application against retrospective implementation of SC’s March 11 judgement, which disallowed this classification of OBC candidates based on the...
No intention to quit politics, Nitin Gadkari clarifies
Statement taken out of context, not political: Gadkari’s office. NEW DELHI: Road transport minister Nitin Gadkari’s office said on Tuesday that his remark that the younger generation should be given more responsibility as “he could no longer take on as much work as before”, had been misinterpreted to suggest that he intended to quit politics.In...
Of 27 lakh ‘logical discrepancy’ deletions in West Bengal, only 7 lakh appealed
This was new information for SC, which was concerned by pendency of 37 lakh appeals NEW DELHI: In a new twist to the simmering controversy over the West Bengal SIR, Supreme Court was informed Tuesday that against 27-lakh odd deletions from voters’ list because of ‘logical discrepancy’ only seven lakh filed appeals seeking inclusion of...
‘Do we need a 4th-party audit?’ PM raps secretaries over quality of public projects
Chairing the monthly Pragati meeting on Tuesday, PM Modi is learned to have told the top bureaucrats that such things are “unacceptable”. NEW DELHI: “Do we now need to go for a fourth-party audit?” PM Modi is learned to have asked secretaries at the Centre and chief secretaries in states while expressing concerns over reports...
1903 Laysan Island rabbit release stripped island bare, drove 3 bird species extinct
Laysan Island’s ecosystem was devastated after rabbits introduced in 1903 stripped away native vegetation When German immigrant Max Schlemmer brought a small number of domestic rabbits to the isolated Pacific atoll of Laysan in 1903, he hoped to create a profitable meat-canning business. He also saw the animals as a source of entertainment for his...
1929 gift gave Lassen Park its first private museum, 40 acres and a seismograph
Loomis Museum In 1929, local homesteader and photographer Benjamin Loomis and his wife, Estella, formally gave 40 acres of valuable mountain land to the United States government. The donation included a hand-built museum and a working seismograph station beside Manzanita Lake. The deal was the first known case in American history of a privately built...
Residents petition against power plant: Southaven neighbors say xAI site threatens health
Representative Image For generations, a two-acre plot of land along the Mississippi–Tennessee state line served as both sanctuary and survival for Krystal Polk’s family. They raised chickens and pigs, harvested onions and herbs, and traded homegrown peaches for pears. But after what is reported to be decades of weathering racial hostility and hardship to keep...
India & China welcome border peace, Beijing seeks ‘package solution’
Ajit Doval and Wang Yi after the meeting. Ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to India next month, India and China held the 25th round of Special Representatives (SR) Dialogue on the Boundary Question, endorsing efforts to formalise the recent turnaround in the relationship on the back of border peace and discussing issues like...
Hydel project shutdown triggers power crisis in J&K
Baglihar stage-I in Ramban district has remained non-operational for a week (Photo for representation) SRINAGAR: Jammu & Kashmir is grappling with power shortages and unscheduled outages after key hydroelectric projects, including the 450MW Baglihar stage I and the Salal project, were shut for silt-flushing operations. Baglihar stage-I in Ramban district has remained non-operational for a...
