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Petition seeks immediate stay on Adani company’s ‘illegal’ construction without green nod

thursday 3

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Mahakumbh waters unsafe for bathing: A report finds faecal bacteria 13 times over safe limit

18.02.2025 10

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‘We could not save her’: How three students tried to rescue a child during Delhi stampede

17.02.2025 5

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‘Don’t delete EVM data’: Supreme Court tells ECI on voter verification plea

11.02.2025 3

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Manifestoes on air pollution: AAP silent, BJP vows 50% drop, Cong offers little

31.01.2025 5

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Final voter list in Kejriwal’s constituency out: How many were added or deleted?

22.01.2025 10

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Billionaire, former MLAs, party president: It’s turncoat season ahead of Delhi polls

18.01.2025 6

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The cricket and controversies of Gautam Gambhir

It was November 2013. Gautam Gambhir had been out of favour with Team India and needed many runs to be back in the reckoning. But instead of the...

27.11.2024 5

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Another oran hurdle to a Rajasthan project. This time to Adani solar plant

Over the past few years, several renewable energy in western Rajasthan have run into trouble with local communities trying to claim government land...

08.11.2024 5

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The YouTube formula of Rahul Gandhi’s fight for the future

Days before Diwali, the Hindu festival that celebrates the victory of light over darkness, a video dropped on Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi’s...

07.11.2024 2

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Ayodhya DM cites workload due to Ram Temple event as NGT flags ‘illegal’ report

In an apparent violation of a National Green Tribunal order, Ayodhya district magistrate Chandra Vijay Singh changed the composition of a...

06.11.2024 2

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‘Only law for people weakened’: Nearly 2 decades on, gaping holes in RTI machinery

“Since 1947, the RTI (Right to Information) Act is the only law which was exercised by people. This is the only law under which officials are...

05.11.2024 2

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Private buses in Corbett’s core: Controversial ex-director didn’t have ‘any powers’ to permit it

A committee has filed a report in the Supreme Court that says a former director of Uttarakhand’s Corbett Tiger Reserve permitted private buses to...

21.10.2024 3

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10 lakh trees to be axed by govt likely to be used for Nicobar project

Timber from around 10 lakh trees to be cut for the mega infra project at the Great Nicobar island is likely to be used for the same project,...

14.10.2024 3

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UP govt did not consult or inform army before denotifying ‘buffer zone’ village: RTI

The Indian army was reportedly neither informed nor consulted by the Uttar Pradesh government before the latter “denotified” a village, earlier...

12.10.2024 6

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Army says its drills are ‘greatly limited’ due to ‘illegal’ encroachments in Ayodhya

Over the past few months, sundry headlines have indicated that the Indian army is currently battling it out with the Uttar Pradesh state government...

03.10.2024 8

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‘We’re here to protect you’: Cops kept tab on Ladakh protesters from Haryana border

Rain, snow, or sun. Nothing could halt their ‘Delhi Chalo March’ on foot, which began from Leh on September 1 and was to culminate at Rajghat in...

01.10.2024 8

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Heirs, cartons and access: The journey of Nehru’s letters through a legal tangle

A Gujarat-based historian has recently written a letter to Congress MP Sonia Gandhi, seeking the return of Jawaharlal Nehru’s private documents...

27.09.2024 3

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Despite NGT order, an Adani-operated coal mine got environmental clearance in Chhattisgarh

“Only a wronged person goes to court,” said Shivpal Bhagat. “A favourable order – that the court quashed environmental clearance – had...

23.09.2024 8

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Out-station students at Imphal’s IIIT-M beg to go home, college says campus is ‘very safe’

Fearing for their safety in strife-torn Manipur, students at Imphal’s Indian Institute of Information Technology-Manipur have written to the...

17.09.2024 4

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COCOMI office meets, ‘pro-CM’ demand, no prominent leader: Inside the student mobilisation in Imphal

The Imphal valley in strife-torn Manipur has been rocked this week by protests by students , clashes with security personnel, stone-pelting at the...

13.09.2024 2

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Nicobar project to hack 10 lakh trees: Govt invites proposals despite pending nod and cases

Over 9.6 lakh trees are set to be axed for a “holistic” infrastructural project on Great Nicobar Island, as its quasi-government agency, Andaman...

11.09.2024 4

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Assam govt ‘illegally’ cut reserved forest to ‘protect’ it from Nagaland, Mizoram ‘encroachers’

The Assam government has defended its “illegal” infrastructure of two joint battalions within two reserve forests, saying the decision – taken...

14.08.2024 20

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No official questioned, MCD files unseized: Why HC handed over coaching centre probe to CBI

The Delhi High Court has handed over the probe into the death of three IAS aspirants in an illegal basement library to the CBI from the Delhi...

02.08.2024 5

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Journalists to boycott Manipur police for 48 hours after TV reporter ‘assaulted’ by cop

Journalists in the valley region of Manipur have decided not to cover the state police for the next 48 hours in protest against an alleged assault...

02.08.2024 4

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Before Delhi coaching hub deaths, plea in HC pointed to 18 buildings ‘intact’ despite MCD ‘demolition’

Three months before the three coaching centre deaths in Delhi’s Karol Bagh zone, the Delhi High Court had disposed of a petition which accused the...

01.08.2024 3

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