NEW DELHI: Less than a quarter of rural households and under two-thirds of urban ones in India reported having piped water for drinking in their houses or yard, according to a report just released by the National Statistical Office. About 70% of the rural households reported having exclusive access to a latrine while 21. 3% … Read more
MUMBAI: Observing that as the biological mother she had the right to custody of her child, a civil court last week directed the “adoptive parents” to hand over a boy to a 25-year-old woman.The biological mother, who was unwed when she gave up her son for adoption in 2021, ran into a baby selling racket … Read more
HYDERABAD: A wedding organised on the outskirts of the city was cancelled by the bride at the last minute, ostensibly because of low dowry. She demanded more than Rs 2 lakh, which was paid by the groom’s family in keeping with the tribe’s custom of “reverse dowry” paid to prospective brides.The wedding was scheduled for … Read more
NEW DELHI: After two rounds of questioning Manish Sisodia, the Enforcement Directorate on Thursday arrested the former deputy chief minister of Delhi from inside Tihar Jail in connection with its Delhi excise policy probe.The ED’s action came a day before a court here is scheduled to hear Sisodia’s bail plea in the case registered by … Read more
President Droupadi Murmu appointed AAP MLAs Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj ministers in the Delhi cabinet Tuesday. They are expected to be sworn in on Thursday. CM Arvind Kejriwal had forwarded their names after the resignations of Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain.AAP spokesperson and DJB vice-chairman Bharadwaj is a three-term MLA who served as transport and … Read more
AGARTALA/GUWAHATI: Manik Saha, whose 10 months as Tripura CM marked him out as BJP’s choice for a full term at the helm going into the polls, was Monday elected legislature party leader amid lobbying by some within the party for Union minister of state for social justice and empowerment Pratima Bhoumik. A spokesperson for BJP … Read more
NAVI MUMBAI: The country’s most prolific open water-long distance swimmer, Prabhat Koli (23), has emerged as the youngest athlete in the world to accomplish the rare feat of completing the Oceans Seven challenge. He swam across Cook Strait in New Zealand on Wednesday, clocking 8 hours & 41 minutes to cross 28km amid bad weather.Oceans … Read more
JAIPUR: Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Saturday sued Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot for alleged defamatory remarks against him and his late mother over a state co-operative scam in which investors allegedly lost about Rs 900 crore. Rajasthan police have been investigating the Sanjivani co-operative scam since August 2019. The society is accused of … Read more
NEW DELHI: Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang told his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar China is willing to speed up resumptions of exchanges with India in various fields, including resuming direct flights at the earliest date and facilitating people-to-people exchanges, but also reiterated Beijing’s position that the boundary issue be kept in the “proper place” in … Read more
NEW DELHI: In their first meeting in Delhi since the Ukraine war started, United States secretary of state Antony Blinken on Thursday asked his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov to end the war and also sought reversal of what he described as an irresponsible decision by Moscow to pull out from New START nuclear arms treaty, … Read more