NEW DELHI: NHPC has given its approval for investment to develop the 260-MW Dulhasti Stage-II Hydro Electric Project (HEP) in Jammu and Kashmir. The project received environmental clearance in Jan this year. It is likely to cost around Rs 3,200 crore and may take 44 months to complete.In a written reply in Rajya Sabha on…
NEW DELHI: From states as afar as Bihar and Uttarakhand, home minister Amit Shah is leading BJP’s push to put the issue of infiltrators on the front burner with an eye on not only the upcoming assembly elections, especially in West Bengal and Assam where it has a certain resonance, but also on shaping the…
Noted Leftist historian K N Panikkar, who critiqued colonial historiography’s simplistic view of culture and highlighted how indigenous intellectuals offered an alternative paradigm of modernity, passed away at a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday. He would have turned 90 next month.Panikkar, affectionately called KN by his colleagues, belonged to a select group of historians…
NEW DELHI: In order to end unnecessary delay in assessing projects for environmental clearances (EC), the Union environment ministry has proposed to set up a central body — Standing Committee on Environment Impact Appraisal (SCEIA) — for each State/UT, which will appraise projects when state-level panels are non-functional. The idea behind the proposal is to…
NEW DELHI: Days after Congress functionary and LoP Rahul Gandhi coined the term “CJP” to deride CPM as “Communist Janata Party”, two Left leaders from Kerala complained to the INDIA bloc that such attacks can hurt cohesion within the opposition camp.CPM MP John Brittas and CPI member Sandosh Kumar told a meeting of opposition parties…
Urges Experts, Policymakers To Work On New Training Models NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Monday highlighted the growing importance of the care economy and telemedicine in strengthening India’s healthcare system, saying both sectors will play a key role in expanding services and creating new employment opportunities in the coming years.Addressing the fourth post-Budget webinar…
New Delhi: Congress’ Rahul Gandhi on Monday said Modi govt wants to avoid a discussion on West Asia crisis because it will lead to questions of how the “PM is being blackmailed”. His remark indicates that the Israel-US war against Iran is the fresh friction point between opposition and govt and will dog the Budget…
NEW DELHI: Advocate Sachin Gupta created a record of sorts on Monday by arguing five PILs one after the other spanning a range of issues – from inclusion of Pali language in the Sixth Schedule to garlic’s ‘tamasic’ quality – only to get a mouthful from Supreme Court and escape exemplary costs by a whisker.Arguing…
NEW DELHI: Expressing serious concern over the functioning of tribunals, Supreme Court on Monday said little accountability was fastened on chairpersons and members of such bodies as they continued even when they were not good enough to write judgments or decide cases expeditiously.“They cannot be put under the control of the govt. They are not…
NEW DELHI: With the Bahrain airport not seeing any commercial flights since Feb 28, the Indian embassy there has made arrangements for stranded compatriots to return home via Saudi Arabia.“The embassy in Riyadh is obtaining individual transit visa approvals from Saudi govt. Transit visa requests are being referred by Indian embassy in Bahrain to Indian…
