GCCI Thursday wrote to the IRDA chairman seeking all general insurance companies to make an immediate payment of 75 per cent of the claims from flood-affected industrial and business units, if the requests are found genuine.

After the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) resumed declaring micro-containment zones from July 7 after five months, the civic body is now easing the restrictions, with 10 such active zones as of Thursday compared to the 12 as of July 11.

Even without JMM's support, Murmu on paper had enough votes to assume the country’s highest Constitutional office.

Municipal Education Officer (MEO), Surat, Vimal Desai said that a three-member committee has been constituted to probe into the allegations against the principal.

The CBI had booked Rajesh on May 20 for allegedly receiving “illegal gratification” in cases related to the grant of arms licences and allotment of government land to ineligible beneficiaries during his tenure as Surendranagar district collector.

The 15-feet tall and 75-kilo heavy kanwar is being made at an estimated cost of Rs 45,000. It will be taken to Haridwar on a specially decorated truck to bring the holy water from the Ganga river.

The agency has started the process of recruiting police officers in the SIT. They are also sending letters to the districts concerned, requesting to provide FIR and documents related with the investigation done so far.

Says nothing political, including the upcoming presidential election, was discussed

Addressing a press conference at the BJP office in Hastings area here, Patil said there were no complaints of any corruption in the Central schemes in the state's panchayat system.

Hitting out at the state government, the Governor said, “We have been hearing tall claims of investments in the state for the past three years. But, in reality, no such investments materialised as yet. Unless we open up against the system, the future generation will never forgive us.”

Will comment after studying matter: CM Mamata Banerjee

Alleged to be a top urban operative of the banned organisation, CPI-Maoist, Sridhar Srinivasan was arrested along with his aide Vernon Gonsalves by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in 2007.

If the outstanding instalment amount is repaid by the beneficiary within 90 days from the implementation of the scheme, 100 per cent of the penalty applicable on the outstanding instalment will be waived, stated an official release from the state government. The government expects waive Rs 768.92 crore during this 90-day period.

Around half a kilometer area at Vapi GIDC to Chanod village near Silvassa headquarter of Dadara and Nagar Haveli has is riddled with potholes causing difficulty to the commuters.

According to rainfall data available with the Gujarat State Disaster Management Agency (GSDMA), Kutch had received an average 445 millimetres (mm) or around 18 inch of rainfall as of July 13 morning.

Smaller districts of Bharuch, Kheda, Amreli, Anand, Aravalli are now reporting cases, indicating the spread of the infection. On Wednesday, 23 districts out of the total 33 districts reported new cases, along with all eight municipal corporations.

On Tuesday, Sushila Tripathi, a retired teacher, was mauled to death by an American Pit Bull Terrier owned by her family in Lucknow’s Kaiserbagh area.

The bodies of  two of the three have been recovered while search is on to locate the third. A total of five tourists are feared dead in the incident, local media quoted Royal Oman Police as saying.

The FIR came in the wake of a purported video surfaced on social media, in which Dayma is seen asking people to return his money following his loss.

The heritage structure was demolished over the last two months, overriding opposition from heritage activists, who had taken the matter, unsuccessfully, to court. The state government plans to construct a new Patna Collectorate building.

In an interesting development, the Territorial Army (TA) has for the first time sought officers having a specific linguistic proficiency and has sought applications from male and female candidates to join as officers having expertise in the Chinese language. There have been Chinese language interpreters in the Army for several decades now but this is […]

The Delhi chief minister and his Punjab counterpart had on June 11 participated in a town hall meeting organised in Hamirpur district to deliberate on the state of education in Himachal Pradesh.

Rajbhar also said he is "still with the Samajwadi Party, but will not remain together forcefully if Akhilesh Yadav doesn't want it."

He held a press conference in the presence of SP president Akhilesh Yadav and RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary even as SP alliance partner Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party leader Om Prakash Rajbhar was conspicuous by his absence.