Category: India

Hindu Succession Act supports daughters but lets down widows and mothers, says Madras High Court

[ad_1] The observations were made while allowing a second appeal filed by two sisters against their father as well as two brothers for having denied equal share to them in their ancestral property. The 2005 central amendment to the Hindu Succession Act of 1956 gives the daughters a right to equal share as that of […]

Action initiated against units lacking sewage treatment facilities, environment dept. tells NGT

[ad_1] Notices were served on nearly 165 apartment complexes and commercial units along the Vembanad lake in Ernakulam over the past one year for gaps in the processing of untreated wastewater. Inspections by enforcement agencies found violations in 45 units that included peeling sheds, seafood industries, and vehicle service stations in the district, according to […]

Telangana has not lost anything after BRS poll loss, except four people losing their jobs: Revanth takes a dig at KCR 

[ad_1] Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy presented appointment letters to the newly recruited Assistant Motor Vehicle Inspectors in Hyderabad on Monday (November 11, 2024). Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar, Rajya Sabha member Anil Kumar Yadav and Principal Secretary Vikas Raj were among the present. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy said Telangana […]

“No religion promotes any activity that promotes pollution or compromises with health of the people,” Supreme Court on firecracker ban

[ad_1] A thick smog engulfs Signature Bridge as Air Quality Index (AQI) remains in the ‘Very Poor’, in New Delhi on Monday. | Photo Credit: ANI Calling it a mere “eyewash”, the Supreme Court came down heavily on the Delhi Police for failing to comprehensively implement the firecracker ban in the national capital and only […]

Coimbatore car blast: NIA interrogates three accused of raising funds for operation

[ad_1] NIA officers come out of a house in Coimbatore as part of a search conducted in the wake of the car blast in front of Sangameswarar temple on October 23, 2022. File photo | Photo Credit: M. Periasamy The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has begun interrogating three persons in their custody, who were arrested […]

Rangaraya Medical College house surgeon in drunken state resorts to ragging medicine students; sacked for one year  

[ad_1] A group of second-year MBBS male students were allegedly subjected to ragging by a house surgeon who entered the victims’ hostel in a drunken state and ragged them for four hours by hurling abuses at them in their hostel on Rangaraya Medical College (RMC) campus in Kakinada City. The incident occurred at midnight on November […]

Jadavpur University professor from West Bengal found dead in Uttarakhand hotel room

[ad_1] A professor from Kolkata’s Jadavpur University was found dead at an Uttarakhand hotel under mysterious circumstances on Saturday, November 9. He had travelled to Uttarakhand with two friends on a trip and were set to return from the place on the day of his death.  He was allegedly found in a pool of blood […]

Medical malpractice destroys profession’s nobility, says BLDE Vice-Chancellor

[ad_1] Dental graduates of S. Nijalingappa Institute of Dental Sciences and Research at the graduation ceremony in Kalaburagi on Sunday. | Photo Credit: ARUN KULKARNI Terming medicine as a noble profession, R.S. Mudhol, Vice-Chancellor of BLDE (deemed-to-be-university), said that doctors and hospitals deviating from their noble path would lead to the destruction of the profession’s […]

Cheluvarayaswamy accuses HDK of collecting ₹1,000 cr. from steel industries to fund elections; JD(S) terms it a strategy to divert attention from ‘excise scam’

[ad_1] A file image of N. Cheluvarayaswamy | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar Agriculture Minister N. Cheluvarayaswamy on Sunday (November 10, 2024), accused Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Steel H.D. Kumaraswamy of collecting ₹1,000 crore from steel industries across the country to fund Maharashtra and Jharkhand elections besides the Channapatna byelection where his son, […]

17,600 trees axed in U.P. to pave way for proposed Kanwar Yatra route, fact-finding panel tells NGT

[ad_1] Devotees walking during the Kanwar Yatra at Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh in July this year. | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP Around 17,600 trees have been cut in Ghaziabad, Meerut, and Muzaffarnagar districts of Uttar Pradesh to make way for a new Kanwar Yatra route, a four-member panel constituted by the National Green Tribunal […]