New Delhi: The Centre on Sunday rejected reports that the definition of the Aravalli hills had been changed to allow large-scale mining, and cited a Supreme Court-ordered freeze on new mining leases in the region. It said a Supreme Court-approved framework provides for stronger protection of the mountain system and places a freeze on new…
Nagpur: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday said the Mahayuti’s “success” in the municipal council and nagar panchayat polls was a team effort of the BJP organisation and the government. “It is a team effort — organisation and government. We fought the polls on the development plank. I led the campaign on a positive…
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday gave her assent to the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill, the Rural Development Ministry said. The VB-G RAM G Bill, 2025, was passed by Parliament, amid opposition protests. It seeks to replace the existing rural employment law, MGNREGA, and guarantees…
Mumbai: Amid counting of votes in the Maharashtra local body polls on Sunday, the Congress and the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) claimed they had retained their party bastions in Chandrapur and Sangli districts. Initial trends have shown an edge for the Mahayuti comprising the BJP, Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar-led NCP. The Congress…
Namrup: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday laid the foundation stone of a Rs 10,601-crore brownfield ammonia-urea plant in Dibrugarh district of Assam. The facility – Assam Valley Fertiliser and Chemical Company Ltd (AVFCCL) – will have an annual urea production capacity of 12.7 lakh metric tonnes and the project is scheduled for commissioning in…
New Delhi: Zonair3D, a European clean-air technology company that has forayed into the Indian market, unveiled its air purification solutions here. The company has opened experience centres in New Delhi and Mumbai and plans to add more such centres across the country. “These Experience Centres are designed to let people see, feel, and measure the…
Guwahati: Alleging that the Congress has neglected Assam and the Northeast for decades, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the BJP-led government was correcting “mistakes” the grand old party kept making in the region. Modi said a conspiracy was hatched to make Assam a part of East Pakistan, and Congress too was going to…
New Delhi: Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Saturday accused the Modi government of bulldozing the MGNREGA, and asserted that the “black law” that seeks to repeal it will be defied by the lakhs of party workers across the country. In a video message, she said that by weakening MGNREGA, the Modi government had…
Bengaluru: With the leadership issue involving him and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah coming to the fore again, Deputy CM DK Shivakumar on Saturday said the Congress high command has told the two leaders when they will be called to Delhi to discuss the matter. He said that both of them will go to Delhi and meet…
Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday lashed out at the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, calling the state’s prevailing situation “maha jungle raj” and alleging that corruption, nepotism and appeasement of the ruling dispensation have prevented development in the state. Addressing a massive gathering at Taherpur in Nadia district over the phone from Kolkata,…
