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UP govt names new Noida authority chief

The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday transferred Noida authority chief executive officer Ritu Maheshwari as Agra division commissioner, four years after she assumed office.

Man sitting in middle of road run over by car in Gzb, dies

A 40-year-old driver has been apprehended after he allegedly crashed his car into an unidentified person sitting in the middle of a road, and dragged him for a few metres late on Tuesday night on Hapur Road, where Ghaziabad's district court and offices of the police commissioner and the district magistrate are located. The incident was caught on camera by another motorist and widely shared on social media, police said.

Water ops resume, but yet to hit peak

The Delhi Jal Board on Wednesday said that it has normalised the water supply to the city with resumption of operations at the three water treatment plants (WTPs) hit by rising water levels of the Yamuna.

Yamuna's water level rising, breaches danger mark again

The water level of the Yamuna inched past the danger mark of 205.33m to 205.8m on Wednesday, just 11 hours after falling below that point, prompting authorities in Delhi to urge people who have moved back into their homes along the river’s floodplains to vacate and take shelter in rescue camps.

NGT seeks report on Shahdara drain

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has observed that despite multiple directions to Delhi and Uttar Pradesh that the Shahdara drain be used exclusively for diverting storm water, the facility is still being used as an \"open sewer\".

MCD begins cleaning choked Taimoor Nagar drain at last

With parts of southeast Delhi recording heavy waterlogging and backflow during the last few spells of heavy rain due to the choked Taimoor Nagar drain, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has finally started a special drive to clean up the silt and floating material from the channel.

Appalling affairs at dairy colonies in Delhi, says HC

The Delhi high court has said it is \"appalled\" by the poor hygienic conditions and health of milch animals at nine dairy colonies in the national capital, and has directed authorities to take immediate remedial actions and file action-taken reports within three months.

Notice by rights panel to admin, seeks girl's rehab

The National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Wednesday issued notice to the district magistrate in Dwarka, seeking the rehabilitation of a 10-year-old girl who working as a domestic help and calling for action against her employers who allegedly tortured her.

Couple thrashed, held for 'torturing' 10-yr-old

A 33-year-old woman pilot and her 36-year-old husband, both employees of airline companies, were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly employing a 10-year-old girl as their domestic help at their Dwarka home and physically assaulting her, police said.

Bloody human-tusker tussle casts long shadow over rural Odisha

The being that was pacing outside the home; they call him Death.

US halts funds for Wuhan lab where Covid-19 emerged

The Joe Biden administration formally halted the Wuhan Institute of Virology's access to US funding, citing unanswered safety and security questions for the facility at the center of the Covid lab leak theory.

After showing steady improvement, sex ratio begins to worsen again in Haryana

The Haryana government’s flagship programme to stop female foeticide has suffered a major blow with the January to June cumulative sex-ratio at birth (SRB) sliding to 906 female births per 1,000 males, the lowest since 2016, when it was 891 (in the same period) — raising the spectre of rampant sex determination tests (these are illegal in India) in the state.

16 electrocuted to death at riverbank in Chamoli

Sixteen people, including a police sub-inspector and three home guard jawans were killed, and eleven others were injured after they were electrocuted on the banks of the Alaknanda river at a Namami Gange project site in Chamoli district on Wednesday morning.

INDIA EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER ESCALATING WAR IN UKRAINE AT UN

India has voiced support for the United Nation's efforts in continuing the Black Sea Grain initiative and expressed hope for an early resolution to the present impasse, a day after Russia announced it was terminating implementation of the UN-brokered deal that allowed export of grains and fertilisers from Ukrainian ports amid the ongoing conflict with Russia.

CM, LG hold meet on DERC after SC nudge

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and lieutenant governor VK Saxena on Wednesday held a meeting in Raj Niwas to decide on the next chairperson of the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC), two days after the Supreme Court asked the constitutional functionaries to sort out what has been a contentious matter between themselves and “rise above political bickering”.

Data to Delhi, crucial bills on anvil in House session

Oppn leaders seek discussion, statement from PM on Manipur as Rajnath chairs all-party meeting

Russia hits Ukraine in 'Revenge Strike'

Russia's defence ministry said on Tuesday it had hit military targets in two Ukrainian port cities overnight as "a mass revenge strike" in response to an attack on the Crimean bridge the previous day which it blamed on Kyiv.

Hope Floats For Bumrah, India As World Cup Nears

Hope swells with every social media intrusion into Jasprit Bumrah's life, the last being a bird's eye view of the man sprinting to the crease at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru.

Time to scratch the etch and be a responsible tourist

With the Colosseum in Rome being vandalised thrice in the past few weeks, it may be time to consider possible checks and enforcement of responsible tourism

With eye on WC, Agarkar to meet Rohit and Dravid

The new chief selector Ajit Agarkar will be having his first tete-a-tete with captain Rohit Sharma and head coach Rahul Dravid in the West Indies.

Bajrang and Vinesh get direct Asian Games berths

Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Bajrang Punia and two-time world championships medallist Vinesh Phogat have been exempted from appearing in the Asian Games selection trials at the IG Sports Complex in the Capital on July 22 and 23.

Infosys wins $2 billion Al deal from existing client for 5 years

Infosys, India's second-largest information technology (IT) services firm by market value, has bagged a $2 billion order from one of its existing clients that entails providing artificial intelligence (AI) and automation development, modernization and maintenance services over five years.

India highlights issues of Global South

Grouping unable to agree on official joint statement over the conflict in Ukraine

Trump expects he will be indicted in Capitol riot probe

Former US president Donald Trump said on Tuesday he expected to be charged over the January 6 attack on the US Capitol - an indictment that would ramp up his legal woes as he makes another White House run.

No new mining reserves required in Hasdeo, Chhattisgarh tells SC

The Chhattisgarh government submitted an affidavit in Supreme Court stating that there is no need to allocate or use any new mining reserve areas for mining in Hasdeo Aranya and the ongoing Parsa East and Kente Basan (PEKB) mine contains a coal deposit of 350 million tonnes, adequate to meet the entire coal demand for the linked power plants of 4340 MW for nearly 20 years.

Odisha being neglected, not getting support from Centre, says Patnaik

Odisha is not getting the kind of support from the Centre that it should have in a system of cooperative federalism, chief minister Naveen Patnaik said on Tuesday, as he accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union government of constantly neglecting the eastern state in transfer of central funds.

Modi unveils new terminal building of Port Blair airport

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday virtually inaugurated the new integrated terminal building of the Veer Savarkar International Airport at Port Blair in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, officials said.

SC restrains ED from probe into Chhattisgarh liquor scam

In a setback to the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Supreme Court on Tuesday restrained the federal agency from investigating further or taking any coercive measures in connection with an alleged liquor syndicate scam in Chhattisgarh, noting that the agency has so far been acting without any court having taken cognisance of a predicate offence under the money laundering law. A predicate offence is the foundational criminal offence that generates illegal proceeds of crime, leading to a separate probe by ED.

A people's leader, colossus of Kerala politics

A two-time chief minister of Kerala and a Congress leader who enjoyed mass public support cutting across social and religious divides, Oommen Chandy died in the early hours of Tuesday while undergoing treatment for cancer at a private hospital in Bengaluru. He was 79.

SC to hear Rahul plea against Gujarat HC's order on July 21

The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear on July 21 an appeal filed by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, challenging a Gujarat high court order that refused to put on hold his conviction and a two-year jail term in a criminal defamation case. Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud assigned the date of hearing to Gandhi's appeal after senior counsel Abhishek Manu Singhvi mentioned the matter, seeking an early hearing.