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Manikrao Kokate (File photo) AMRAVATI: Even beggars don’t accept one rupee in alms, but govt is giving crop insurance for this sum and this too is being misused, Maharashtra agriculture minister Manikrao Kokate said Friday, triggering sharp reactions from farm outfits and opposition parties.The minister, an NCP MLA from Nashik, was answering a query on…
NEW DELHI: Delhi high court on Friday ruled against Reliance Industries Ltd and its foreign partners in a dispute over the govt’s $1.7 billion claim against the energy giant for making “unjust enrichment” by extracting gas that migrated from state-run ONGC’s blocks adjacent to their KG-D6 field off the Andhra coast.The bench of Justices Rekha…
RAIPUR: Nearly a week after the Feb 9 encounter in Bijapur in which 31 Maoists were gunned down, police were yet to identify three of them. The other 28 carried a cumulative bounty of Rs 1.1 crore. Police said 17 of them were ‘senior cadres’; some were part of Maoists’ IED squad and involved in…
NEW DELHI: Sending a strong message to IAS officers reluctant to opt for central deputation, govt in the latest empanelment of joint secretaries has included only 16 such officers of 2009 batch in the ‘initial’ list out of the total 119 from the batch. This is the lowest number of IAS officers from any batch…
NAGPUR/KOLHAPUR: Two more persons died of GBS in Maharashtra on Friday, taking the state toll since Jan to 11 and the country’s fatality count to 14. Assam, Tamil Nadu and Bengal had reported one death each earlier.On Friday, Nagpur and Kolhapur reported their first GBS fatalities. While a man, 45, from Pardi in Nagpur succumbed…
National Investigation Agency NEW DELHI: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a chargesheet against two terror operatives of banned Khalistani outfit Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) in connection with the murder of VHP‘s Vikas Prabhakar alias Vikas Bagga in Punjab’s Roopnagar.Dharminder Kumar alias Kunal and Dubai-based absconding accused Harwinder Kumar alias Sonu have been charged…
Yogi Adityanath (File photo) LUCKNOW: Attacking opposition for questioning Rs 4,000 crore expenditure on organisation of Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj this year, UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath said on Friday that only Rs 1,500 crore was spent on Kumbh while the remaining was invested in improving Prayagraj’s infrastructure.“Maha Kumbh is not just a religious event…
NEW DELHI: Delhi HC Friday extended until March 11 the interim bail granted to Unnao rape convict Kuldeep Sengar‘s brother Jaideep Sengar, who is serving a 10-year jail sentence in connection with the murder of the survivor’s father. Justice Vikas Mahajan gave relief to Jaideep on medical grounds, saying he was suffering from mouth cancer…
NEW DELHI: India has reasons to get excited about Donald Trump’s ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ slogan, which has become the leitmotif of the 47th US president’s policy to make America rich again by producing, consuming and exporting more oil and gas.More oil and gas in the market means lower prices, something India needs to maintain the…
NEW DELHI: India will have to carefully evaluate US president Trump’s offer of the fifth-generation F-35 fighter, even though IAF would love to grab it with both hands given the China factor, while the two countries take forward the procurement of six more P-8I long-range maritime patrol aircraft as well as joint production of Stryker…