New Delhi, Sep 4: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Tamil Nadu government's plea for an urgent hearing of its appeal against an NGT order permitting mining major Vedanta to access the company's administrative office inside its Sterlite copper smelting plant at Tuticorin.A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar...
New Delhi, Sep 4: Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday said that Delhi's civic bodies will construct five lakh community and 67 lakh household toilets by the end of 2019.He also said that unlike previous years, 'Swachh Survekshan 2019' will encourage large-scale citizen participation and sustainability of...
Tripoli, Sep 4: Indiscriminate shelling on Tuesday hit the headquarters of the US embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli, as clashes continue between government forces and militias, a security source said.An unknown number of indiscriminate shells hit the US embassy building. The damage due to the fire caused by the missiles remains...
New Delhi, Sep 4: Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra on Tuesday sent a letter to the Centre recommending Justice Ranjan Gogoi as his successor.Following the principle of seniority, Chief Justice Misra picked Justice Gogoi, the senior-most judge of the top court after him. As per convention, the outgoing Chief Justice sends the...
New Delhi, Sep 4: Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma on Tuesday resigned from the Lok Sabha after being elected to the Meghalaya Assembly on August 27.He will take oath as a member of the Assembly on Wednesday. Sangma, who won the by-election from South Tura, said he had submitted his resignation to Lok...
New Delhi, Sep 4: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said interim bail granted to Bhushan Steel's erstwhile promoter Neeraj Singal by the Delhi High Court in an alleged Rs 2,500-crore fraud case will continue.A bench of Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud said it was only allowing the interim bail to...
New Delhi, Sep 4: The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought the Election Commission's response to a PIL for restricting the access to EVMs and VVPATs to security-cleared engineers of PSUs ECL and BEL.A bench of Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Ashok Bhushan was told by petitioner Ashish Goyal about alleged security breaches...
Kolkata, Sep 4: Bringing back the dreadful memory of Posta flyover collapse here two years back, a bridge partially collapsed in South Kolkata on Tuesday, toppling several vehicles.At least 20-25 injured people have been rescued by fire officials while many more are feared trapped under the rubble, officials said. A part of the...
Islamabad, Sep 4: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) candidate Arif Alvi won the presidential election of the country on Tuesday, according to official TV channel PTV News and initial reports of vote counting.Three candidates competed for the post of the 13th president of the country for the next five-year term. Besides Alvi, PML-N...
