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Rana said trees were being cut without permission, fines for violations were very low and permissions to cut trees were being given without proper checks Gurgaon: National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed Haryana chief secretary to file an affidavit within four weeks stating what steps have been taken to bring in the Haryana Tree Preservation Act, 2026. The proposed law will regulate tree felling in areas that are not forest land.Flagging gaps in Haryana’s rules for cutting trees, NGT found that compensatory plantation was not carried out in several cases, even after the tribunal had put an interim system in…
He was convicted on July 21 and sentenced to concurrent terms of one month under the BNS, seven months under the Immigration and Foreigners Act and three months under the Prevention of Damage to Public Property ActHe was convicted on July 21 and sentenced to concurrent terms of one month under the BNS, seven months under the Immigration and Foreigners Act and three months under the Prevention of Damage to Public Property ActHe was convicted on July 21 and sentenced to concurrent terms of one month under the BNS, seven months under the Immigration and Foreigners Act and three months…
The damaged front portion of the bus Kanpur: Five passengers were seriously injured after a private sleeper bus travelling from Delhi to Rae Bareli collided with a stationary truck on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway in Kannauj on Tuesday morning.According to police, the bus driver allegedly dozed off, causing the vehicle to go out of control.Around 30 passengers were on board the bus at the time of the accident.After receiving information, a UPEIDA team reached the spot and rescued passengers trapped inside the bus.The injured were rushed to the Medical College for treatment. Source link
Ludhiana: The Shaheed Sukhdev Thapar Memorial Trust entered the seventh day of a hunger strike on Tuesday, threatening a fast unto death over demands to rename the railway station and complete a road to the freedom fighter’s birthplace.Protesters want the state govt to complete a 100m road connecting Chaura Bazaar to the memorial site. Trust national president Ashok Thapar blamed administrative inertia and local political opposition for delaying the project.“Due to the govt’s inflexible attitude and the thinking of some local politicians, the work of laying a direct road to Skbirthplace remained in limbo for years,” Thapar said. “Now, after…
A group of Tibetans, on a march from Bengaluru to the Gurupura Tibetan settlement, reached Mysuru city on Tuesday Mysuru: Representatives of the Tibetan community from the Gurupura settlement in Hunsur have urged Lok Sabha MP Yaduveer Wadiyar to raise the Tibetan issue in Parliament and seek greater international attention to the preservation of Tibet’s identity, culture and rights.In a memorandum submitted to the MP, Tsering Youdon, president of the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress (RTYC), Hunsur, and Sonam Dolker, president of the Regional Tibetan Women’s Association (RYWA), Hunsur, sought his support for the Tibetan cause.They urged Yaduveer to highlight concerns…
Noida: Along its length of 500 metres or so, the surface of the road near Purvanchal Royal City in Sector Chi 5 is pockmarked with dozens of cracks, patches, divots and holes. In some spots where the surface has worn away entirely, three or more layers of road lie exposed.The stretch, which runs under Yamuna Expressway bridge, is one of many across Greater Noida that residents said have deteriorated significantly this monsoon, exposing years of civic neglect.While several high-speed corridors and major infrastructure projects are planned across the city, on the ground, several internal and residential roads remain riddled with…
Bikers cross large potholes on the Nande-Mhalunge Road, where a 10-year-old boy died on Monday after he came under a truck Pune: Shankar Mandekar, NCP’s Bhor MLA, on Tuesday sparked a controversy when he said that when there are roads, accidents do occur after he visited the accident spot on Nande-Mhalunge Road where a 10-year-old boy died the previous day.“It was an unfortunate incident, but when there are roads, accidents do happen. In the end, a case is registered against the owner of the bigger vehicle involved in the accident,” the Bhor MLA said during a media interaction on Tuesday…
Panaji: After the Goa state council for educational research and training (GSCERT) decided to implement holistic progress cards from Class I to VIII in all govt and aided schools from the current academic year, the Goa board of secondary and higher secondary education too has said that the new process of assessment will be introduced in a phased-manner from Class IX from 2026-27.Implementation of holistic progress cards is a requirement under the National Education Policy, 2020.“All heads of secondary schools are hereby informed that holistic progress card is being rolled out for implementation in secondary schools phase-wise with the objective…
BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) president Joginder Singh Ugrahan Bathinda: Differences have emerged within the Punjab chapter of Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) over staging a morcha in Chandigarh from Sept 1, with two major farm organisations disassociating themselves from the decision over a demand to annul all water-sharing agreements.BKU Ekta Ugrahan and Kisan Sangharsh Committee Punjab have opposed the demand, saying it could create differences between farmer groups in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan and is not in the spirit of a broader national farmers’ movement. They have also objected to their names being used in a joint statement issued on Aug 14…
Lucknow: A district court in Sultanpur has awarded life imprisonment to four persons for the murder of a brick kiln owner in 2019. The court slapped a fine of Rs 3.98 lakh on the four accused with directions that 80% of the amount would be transferred to the victim’s family.On Nov 12, 2019, brick kiln owner Vijay Kumar, his brother Arpit and their cousin Amrendra Singh were stopped by one Chandrashekhar Kesarwani and his associates near a bank in Amethi’s Gauriganj. The two sides entered into a heated exchange over some old issue and Chandrashekhar’s demand of Rs 2 lakh…