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Patna: The state govt has notified the Draft Development Plan-2047 for the proposed Pataliputra Greenfield Satellite Township, paving the way for planned urban development and lifting restrictions on the sale, purchase and transfer of land in the notified special area.Urban development and housing department (UDHD) minister Nitish Mishra said the draft plan was notified following a decision taken at the 14th meeting of the Bihar Urban Planning and Development Board on July 31.With the notification, restrictions on land transactions in the township area have been removed with immediate effect, a move expected to accelerate development activities and attract investment in…

(CJI) Justice Surya Kant addressing Commonwealth Peace Mediation Conference in Jaipur Jaipur: Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant said Saturday mediation is rooted in India’s civilisational ethos and legal traditions, and is “in the veins and history of India”, not a concept introduced by modern law.Addressing the second day of the three-day Commonwealth Peace Mediation Conference in Jaipur, Justice Kant said rule of law does not require every dispute to end in court. Its real purpose, he said, is to ensure accessible, dignified, affordable and meaningful justice for every citizen.Justice Kant said litigation usually focuses on the legal “positions”…

Ranchi: A state-level awareness programme marking World Breastfeeding Week was organised at Sadar Hospital on Saturday, with health officials and experts stressing the importance of early and exclusive breastfeeding to improve maternal and child health. The week-long campaign will be observed from Saturday to Friday. NHM director (Jharkhand) Shashi Prakash Jha urged mothers to initiate breastfeeding within the first hour of birth and exclusively breastfeed infants for the first six months. Source link

Kolkata: The plot to assassinate Chandranath Rath, the personal assistant to Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari, was put into motion in Dec 2025, when cash movement began for the operation.Investigators claimed to have established the timeline and operational outline of the conspiracy after seizing crucial documents and mobile phones from two brothers, who were arrested in the case earlier last week and produced in a court on Friday.Sagar Sonkar and Sahib Sonkar — the first arrests from Bengal — have been remanded in CBI custody for seven days.An analysis of call detail records directly linked the suspects to a hired gunman…

SRINAGAR, AUGUST 01: Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Anshul Garg, today chaired a meeting of Deputy Commissioners (DCs) to review the progress of compassionate appointment cases, pending SVAMITA matters under MAPS 1.0, implementation of AgriStack, and the locking of Jamabandies across the Kashmir Division.During the meeting, the Divisional Commissioner conducted a district-wise review of the progress achieved under each initiative and emphasized the need for timely completion of all pending tasks. He directed the Deputy Commissioners to ensure that the prescribed targets are achieved within the stipulated timelines through close monitoring and coordinated efforts.Reviewing the status of compassionate appointment cases, the Divisional…

After months of sustained selling, foreign investors are beginning to turn more positive on India, with equities now “probably oversold”, Motilal Oswal Financial Services chairman Raamdeo Agrawal said on Saturday, even as he warned that geopolitical uncertainties and elevated oil prices continue to cloud the outlook.Speaking to news agency ANI, Agrawal said that a large amount of foreign portfolio investor (FPI) capital had already left India over the past two years, making the recent shift in sentiment noteworthy.”In the last two years already we have lost a lot of FPI capital. They’ve been completely on the outflow, particularly this year……

Hyderabad: Telangana high court has directed an Indian-origin US-based man to personally appear before the court along with his two minor children on Aug 12, after finding him guilty of repeatedly obstructing court-ordered video calls between the children and their mother and violating the court orders.Holding the father guilty of wilful contempt, a bench, comprising Justices Moushumi Bhattacharya and Gadi Praveen Kumar, held that the mother deserves to see her children in person for the first time in nearly 20 months, especially given the daughter’s young age, when a mother’s presence matters most.The bench passed the direction on July 22…

Children enjoy a rainy Saturday evening, playing in the showers in Chennai. Chennai: After a hot day when temperatures climbed nearly 3°C above normal, evening rain brought relief to many parts of the city and its suburbs on Saturday. While IMD has forecast light to moderate rain over the city and the suburbs only on Sunday, some parts of north coastal Tamil Nadu may continue to receive light to moderate rainfall till Tuesday.Meteorologists said the rainfall was triggered by intense daytime heating, which caused warm, moisture-laden air near the surface to rise rapidly. As the rising air cooled at higher…

Bhubaneswar/Berhampur: In death, a 36-year-old migrant worker from Odisha’s Ganjam district gave four people a new life. And the transportation of his donated heart aboard a Vande Bharat Express from Surat to Ahmedabad marked a first in India’s organ transplant programme.The ministry of railways, in a post on its official handle, wrote: “A heartbeat of hope, delivered on time! For the first time, a ‘live human heart’ was transported by Vande Bharat Express from Surat to Ahmedabad for a life-saving transplant.” The ministry said it was a remarkable example of seamless coordination between Indian Railways and the state administration, where…

COIMBATORE: Coimbatore corporation rewarded four residents of ward 38 with silver gifts for implementing the four-bin source segregation system. The newly introduced Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Management Rules 2026 mandate segregation of waste into four categories — wet, dry, sanitary, and special wastes. Interestingly, west zone has appeared to be the forerunner in implementing the rules.The Union govt has allowed three years for complete compliance of the 2026 rules in all local bodies in the country. The new MSW rules came into effect in May.The rewarded residents were from Anbu Nagar, Sindhu Street and Viruksha street of ward 38. On…