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Punjab and Haryana HC slams delay in parole case, says prisoners are not ‘second-class citizens’

July 11, 2025 10:52 am

Disposing of the petition, the court not only ordered the DM to take a final call on Singh’s application within two weeks but also laid down a broader rule: all parole pleas must be decided within four months.

Booths run by women, apps to empower voters, cells to check fake news: ECI gears up for Chhattisgarh polls

August 26, 2023 5:31 pm

ECI Rajiv Kumar also said that the number of women voters were increasing, and as a “statement”, certain booths – 900 of them – would be run completely by women.

Sonbhadra DM and SSP Ghaziabad suspended over ‘graft & crime rate’

April 01, 2022 5:45 am

While Sonbhadra DM TK Shibu was suspended following allegations of corruption in mining, Ghaziabad SP, Pawan Kumar, was suspended on the charges of 'dereliction of duty' and 'failure to control crime.'

Tripura High Court seeks video footage of DM Shailesh Yadav disrupting weddings

May 04, 2021 12:31 pm

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Akil Kureshi and Justice SG Chattopadhyay on Monday passed the directions after hearing a petition filed by a priest who was called to solemnise the marriage.

Prayagraj: Three-yr-old dies outside hospital gate, family says surgical wounds not sewn due to unpaid dues

March 06, 2021 11:23 pm

The family alleged that the girl’s surgical wounds were not stitched up as they could not pay the hospital bill.

UP man persistently calls control room for samosas, has to clean drain as punishment

March 30, 2020 7:21 pm

Along with the samosas, the man was given an order to clean the nearby drain as punishment for hindering official work.

Shahjahanpur DM orders half day in govt schools to allow Friday namaz

November 03, 2013 12:30 am

The new timing has now been changed to 7:30 am to 12:30 pm on Friday

As mobs burn houses,a police station turns into refugee camp

September 09, 2013 1:48 am

More than 300 residents of four villages around Muzaffarnagar will call the Foghana police station their home.

DM,cops cane Meerut lawyers

September 05, 2013 5:00 am

Lawyers agitating for a bench of the Allahabad high court in Meerut went on a rampage Wednesday after district magistrate Navdeep Rinwa reportedly caned and abused them and police lathicharged them,injuring at least 10

DM who backed Durga Shakti is transferred

August 29, 2013 2:14 am

A month after IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal was suspended,reportedly for demolishing the wall of a masjid in Kadalpur during Ramzan,the District Magistrate of Gautam Buddh Nagar,Ravi Kant Singh,was transferred late Tuesday night

DISTRICT MAGISTRATE VIDEOS

Malda violence: BJP fact-finding team hits out at Mamata for imposing Sec. 144

January 11, 2016 6:47 am

Malda, Jan 11 (ANI): The three-member fact-finding delegation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who were detained here on Monday, lashed out at the state government for denying them entry to the violence-hit area in Kaliachak and asserted that they had come to Malda will the sole purpose of helping the people but failed to do so, as Section 144 had been imposed in the area.SS Ahluwalia said, "The District Magistrate told us himself that Section 144 had been imposed due to the law and order situation in the area. We said that we have not come here to destabilise the situation but to help the people. We want to know the truth,"

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