High speed internet service in J&K has been suspended since August last year. Governor G C Murmu’s statement is a change in the earlier position taken by the J&K administration.

The Commission issued a strongly worded statement asserting that all decisions on the conduct and timing of elections are its “sole remit”.

This comes a day after Governor Kalraj Mishra sought a revised proposal addressing three points: a 21-day notice for calling a session, live broadcast of the proceedings in case of a trust vote, and adequate social distancing measures in the House.

This January, Noor was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma, a rare cancer of the liver, setting off a chain of events that had turned the family from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh virtually into nomads, as they shuttle between their hometown and Mumbai, and between shelter homes and the flyover.

Himachal Pradesh runs an exclusive captive breeding centre for cheer pheasants near Chail. Last October, three families of the bird from the facility were introduced into soft-release pens at a site between Seri and Undala villages of Dharbhog panchayat in Shimla rural tehsil.

Within two days of the Delhi government launching a new job portal — jobs.delhi.gov.in — to revive the local economy from its Covid slump, it’s a virtual stampede for slots, say several employers.

In a rare midnight hearing, hours before the Rath Yatra on June 23, the High Court had upheld its stay on the procession in Ahmedabad despite the state government moving an application, seeking the procession to be permitted in a limited capacity in the city.

A four-member team of the Patna Police has left for Mumbai for further investigations. “We have spoken to Mumbai Police to seek their cooperation,” said a police officer.

The High Court had extended until July 24 the time given by the Speaker to 19 Congress rebel MLAs, seeking their response to the disqualification notices he had served.

Citing the Covid pandemic, Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra also said that a session cannot be called “without any special urgency”.

Won’t stand up for them tomorrow, says NC Vice president, on Opposition ‘betrayal’ over Centre’s August 5 move

South Gujarat president of the Khedut Samaj Gujarat (KSG), Patel, also known as Jayesh ‘Delad’ after the village he belongs to, is also one of the 18 directors of Sumul Dairy, which has over 2.5 lakh members.

Justice Suresh Kumar Kait issued the direction on a plea by Sahil Parvez, whose father was shot dead near his home, and Mohd Saeed Salmani, whose mother was lynched inside her house.

The RBI had announced a three-month moratorium on repayments in March to help borrowers tackle the impact, especially lockdown, of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Locating the right volunteers — who have not been infected with Covid-19 earlier, are not asymptomatic and are healthy — has been a problem in conducting clinical trials.

The son of daily wage worker Manoj and Thankamma, Vinayak studied at the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) at Neriamangalam in Ernakulam, and bagged 493 marks out of 500 in the exam.

Muhammad Gibran Saleh Gibran is among several soldiers who were flown over in January for specialised treatment by Yemen’s exiled government after they were injured in the civil war that erupted in 2015 between a coalition led by Saudi Arabia and Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

After Principal Secretary (Archaeology and Museums Department) Ashok Khemka flagged the discrepancy, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar issued directions “to fix responsibility for the grave errors”. Khemka said he had also discovered that the land was not even measured during allotment in 1996.

The Gehlot government wants a floor test so that it can prove its majority, and be spared of another count in the Assembly for the next six months.

The Covid-19 situation in Haryana was under control, case numbers were better than many other states, and near normalcy had returned across the state, Khattar said at an online Idea Exchange with The Indian Express.

Two months after the launch of the scheme, cumulative loan sanctions have risen to Rs 1.30 lakh crore from Rs 1.10 lakh crore on July 1, with both private and state-owned banks stepping up credit deployment, according to most recent data.

The Prime Minister's message came as Indian soldiers remain locked in conflict with the PLA in Ladakh, with the disengagement process stalled by the Chinese reluctance to step back from several places in the high-altitude border area.

M Nageswara Rao's post alleged this system patronised pro-Left academics and sidelined pro-Hindu nationalist scholars.

The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee had arranged tickets and accommodation for the Afghan Sikhs.