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Diya tables budget: Focus on women, Hindutva

WITH Finance Minister Diya Kumari making several major announcements, the Bhajan Lal government of Rajasthan presented its first full budget on Wednesday.

MP man kills wife, 2 children before jumping in front of oncoming train

IN the Vindhya region's Satna district, a horrifying discovery was made as a labourer couple and their two young sons were found murdered at two separate locations.

Rajkot fire victims' kin threaten march if no justice in 6 months

AFTER meeting with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, the families of the victims of the Rajkot TRP game zone fire met Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Wednesday.

IAS officer lands in Maha soup over fake OBC, disability papers

AN IAS officer in Maharashtra, who came under spotlight for using a red-blue beacon light and a VIP number plate on her private Audi vehicle, was found to have submitted fake disability and Other Backward Class (OBC) certificates to get into the administrative service.

BMW hit-and-run accused's father sacked by Shinde

A Mumbai court on Wednesday remanded Mihir Shah, the prime accused in the BMW hitand-run case, to police custody till July 16, while the ruling Shiv Sena sacked his father Rajesh Shah as party deputy leader.

Yet another bridge crashes in Bihar

13th such incident in state in less than 3 wks; no casualties reported

Bodies of 3 Army men recovered after 9 months

THE Army has recovered bodies of its three personnel lost in an avalanche during a mountaineering expedition in Ladakh last year.

Mann move forces farmers to sell moong below MSP

WITH the highest-ever area under moong (green gram) cultivation in Punjab this year three times more than last year farmers have been left in a lurch, forced to sell their crop below the Minimum Support Price (MSP) to private players.

Vikravandi in TN records highest 82% turnout, violence in U’khand & Bengal

AMID sporadic incidents of violence in Uttarakhand and West Bengal, the bypolls to 13 constituencies across seven states recorded moderate to brisk polling on Wednesday.

CBI operates under Centre's control: SC

THE Supreme Court on Wednesday held that as per the law, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) functions under the administrative control of the Union government and rejected the Centre's objections to the maintainability of a lawsuit filed by the West Bengal government.

'Rights upheld': Activists hail verdict

HAILING the Supreme Court ruling that divorced Muslim women are entitled to maintenance under the Section 125 of the CrPC, several rights activists on Wednesday said that the verdict will have positive implications on the rights of Muslim women in the country.

WHY COURTS CAN RULE ON ESSENTIAL RELIGIOUS PRACTICES

THE Madras High Court's May 2024 judgement in P Naveen Kumar vs District Collector, Karur & Others has revived the debate on what in India is called the essential religious practices test.

CITIZEN & GOVT ACTION CAN DEFEAT DENGUE

A surge in dengue cases has worried the Karnataka government, which has gone into combat mode with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah ordering deputy commissioners to constitute task forces in all 31 districts of the state to combat the disease.

JOINT COMMAND, LOCAL ENGAGEMENT FOILS FOR JAMMU TERROR ATTACKS

FIVE Indian Army soldiers were killed and five injured on Monday in an ambush by militants in Badnota, a village about 80 km from Jammu's Kathua district.

THE TROUBLE WITH PREDICTING POLLS IN FOREIGN LANDS

Foreign diplomats in India have often missed the mark in predicting political outcomes here. Indian diplomats have been no less erratic in calling elections in their foreign stations

Jumbo falls into Mullaiperiyar channel, rescued

IN a joint effort, Tamil Nadu PWD officials and Kerala forest department personnel rescued an elephant, which was washed away and got stuck in an iron grill gate of the leading channel of Mullaiperiyar Dam on Wednesday.

Lawyers filing bail pleas sans suspects' nod irks HC

Taking a serious note on the bail petitions filed without the consent of the accused persons, due to a nexus between advocates and policemen, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court directed the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Pudhucherry, and the Director General of Police (DGP) to take a call on the issue and provide necessary instructions to their members, to preserve and maintain the dignity of the institution.

Apex court gives no interim relief to Senthil Balaji

THERE was no immediate relief to MLA and former Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji as the Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing on his bail plea in a money laundering case to July 12 (Friday).

Karnataka ST corpn scam: ED raids ex-min Nagendra's flats

Officials also searched houses of Raichur Rural MLA, chairman of corpn

Six-lane bypass work over, motorists can now avoid Thiruporur junction

GUARANTEEING huge relief to residents along Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR) from the persistent traffic congestion, the laying of the 7.45 km sixlane bypass at Thiruporur Junction has been completed.

Friends consume liquor mixed with poison, one dies, another hospitalised

A man died at the General Hospital in Mayiladuthurai on Tuesday evening after accidentally consuming liquor laced with poison his friend had allegedly intended to use for himself.

Tech firm cab falls into lake, security guard dies, 1 hurt

A 27-year-old man from Bihar, who was employed as a security guard, died after the cab in which he was travelling plunged into a lake in Pallikaranai in the wee hours of Wednesday.

Venomous box jellyfish spotted in Gulf of Mannar

AMONG a bloom of jellyfish sighted along the coast of the Gulf of Mannar, box jellyfish of the species Chironex indrasaksajiae, notorious for causing fatalities, were spotted.

De-addiction centre sealed over inmate's death; 6 held for assault

SIX persons, including the chairman, staff, and inmates of a de-addiction centre near Tirukoilur were arrested in connection with the murder of a man admitted for treatment.

EPS begins interaction with partymen on LS poll debacle

AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Wednesday began his interaction with party functionaries from each Lok Sabha constituency on the AIADMK's poor performance in the election and forfeiture of deposit amount in many constituencies as well as erosion of vote share.

Seven fall ill in TN after consuming Pondy arrack

SEVEN men from a village near Vikravandi recently fell ill after consuming arrack brought from Puducherry.

'CM blocking CBI probe into hooch, BSP prez murder

BJP state president K Annamalai on Wednesday accused CM MK Stalin of 'blocking' CBI inquiry into the hooch tragedy in Kallakurichi as well as in the murder of BSP state president K Armstrong.

High turnout in bypoll has lessons for AIADMK, EPS?

AIADMK's decision to boycott the Vikravandi bypoll seems to have had little effect on the ground as the voter turnout of 82.48% recorded on Wednesday was higher than the 82.45% polling recorded in the seat in the 2021 election.

State wing takes up 4-laning work of 3 NH routes

Move aims at easing the pressure on NHAI; it is for the first time TN's NH wing is undertaking such massive projects

Pungent odour rattles Kelambakkam residents, TNPCB sets up monitor

SEVERAL residents living in gated communities in Siruseri and Kelambakkam, about 20 km south of Chennai on the Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR), have raised a stink about a foul, ammonia-like smell every day late in the evening and night for the past few weeks.