The court held that “the disqualification petitions filed by the petitioners were correctly dismissed” by the Speaker. It said the Speaker was justified in holding that the 10 Congress MLAs and two MGP MLAs “did not attract disqualification under the Tenth Schedule...”.

Outside Presidency University, SFI members burnt an effigy of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee while holding banners and placards denouncing the incident. They also demanded a CBI investigation into the death of the student leader.

The comments from the Governor came on a day the Special Investigation Team (SIT) set up to probe the death of Anis Khan arrested homeguard Kashinath Bera and civic volunteer Pritam Bhattacharya in connection with the incident.

'We will employ women in social work. Jobs will be generated for more than one lakh  youths. Many have been given jobs as police constables. Different industries will be created. Local residents will be given jobs. As many as 5,100 posts have been created."

Recently, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee made a recommendation to the Governor for summoning the Assembly. However, Dhankhar termed the same as ‘constitutionally deficient’.

The state's total death toll stands at 21,159. The discharge rate stands at 98.82 per cent and the fatality rate is 1.05 per cent.

A western zone bench of the National Green Tribunal has quashed two environmental clearance (EC) certificates granted by the Gujarat State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) in 2020 to Ultratech Cement Limited and its subsidiary Narmada Cement Company (NCC) Limited for limestone mining at Babarkot village in Amreli’s Jafrabad. Noting that the area in question […]

On Sunday, the concluding day, the party will read out the 'Dwarka Declaration' that will "chart out the role for the party till December this year" when the state Assembly elections are due.

The officials claimed to have found 23 logs of red sandalwood weighing 570 kilogram hidden in a room in the backyard the house.

The incident happened when the two teenagers went to swim in the pond Tuesday evening which lies between Jiyav and Budhiya villages in Sachin, police said adding that the two were unaware of the depth and drowned in the pond.

Currently only one affordable housing scheme with 300-odd units is operational in GIFT City, while residential projects of two other real-estate developers are under construction.

The 2,500-page chargesheet was submitted before the first class magistrate court on February 21 within five days after the arrest of the accused

The accused, who has been absconding since June 2021, was nabbed by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Gujarat Police and later handed over to SGST officials. However, the officials refused to reveal any information on where Patel was apprehended by ATS.

The media reports quoted Prof Jatin Raval, an assistant professor with life sciences department of BKNMU, as saying that Mehta, the 15th century poet and reformer, hailed from Junagadh hence the team named the new spider species after him.

Police claimed the scam was exposed after irregularities were found in the workings of Shuangma Machinery India Private Ltd, a plastic injection molding company based in Ahmedabad,  listed as a subsidiary of a foreign company, with the Registrar of Companies (ROC).

While the investigation may continue, a chargesheet should not be filed without its "prior permission", the court stated in an order dated February 22. The court has also given the state government time till July 5 to respond to the notice.

Police denied the murder of Mohammed Khalil Alam, 35, had anything to do with religion. They said Alam was killed for purportedly failing to keep his promise to give job to a youth in Railways.

While confirming the directions issued, a senior official from the state Education Department, however, said that a Punjab student taking admission in Pakistan would be the rarest of the rare case.

Zeba, her father gangster-turned-politician and former MP Rizwan Zaheer, and her husband former Ranji player from Jharkhand Rameez Niyamat have been lodged in jail in connection with Ahmed's murder.

The Simlipal reserve sprawls over 2,750 sq km in Mayurbhanj district, and is home to three out of every four tigers in Odisha and 20 per cent of the state's elephant population. There are 68 villages within the reserve — mostly in the buffer zone — and about 1,200 on the periphery.

A senior Trinamool leader said, “Mamata Banerjee has always wanted to bring fresh blood into the party. Charing the very first meeting of the national working committee (on Friday), she said she will soon put together a new state committee which will have new faces.”

During her recent visit to Cooch Behar district, Banerjee announced a slew of projects for the community, which represents a major votebank in North Bengal.

The state also recorded 1,357 Covid recoveries in the past 24 hours.

State medical regulatory commission had held the hospital responsible and directed it to pay Rs 5 lakh as compensation