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'Strictly act against illicit groundwater extraction'

JODHPUR, Nov. 7 -- The Central Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday directed all divisional commissioners and district collectors of Rajasthan to strictly follow the instructions iss... Read More


Over 20 injured as bus overturns on Agra-Lko expressway

KANPUR, Nov. 7 -- At least 21 passengers were injured, many of them seriously, after a private double-decker sleeper bus travelling from Delhi to Varanasi overturned into a ditch on the Agra-Lucknow E... Read More


CJI BR Gavai slams Centre over delaying pleas on Tribunal Act

New delhi, Nov. 7 -- Chief Justice of India Bhushan R Gavai on Thursday took strong exception to the Union government seeking yet another adjournment in the hearing on petitions challenging the consti... Read More


MoEngage bags $100 mn funds to fuel expansion

Mumbai, Nov. 6 -- US-based customer engagement platform MoEngage has raised $100 million from A91 Partners and its existing investor, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, as it looks to further expand its glob... Read More


Govt to shift public capex focus to quality and impact

New Delhi, Nov. 6 -- India's policymakers are increasingly shifting focus from expanding the size of public capital expenditure (capex) to improving its quality and impact, including the use of data a... Read More


Building politics of hope in NY

India, Nov. 6 -- The election of Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist of South Asian and Muslim origin, as the mayor of New York will resonate beyond that city and even the US. Mamdani's spectacular... Read More


A quiet rehaul of India-UK relations

India, Nov. 6 -- "Beyond the words on the page of the agreement is the spirit and the confidence that has given to our two great countries to work even more closely together," noted Keir Starmer, the ... Read More


Regional vs national in the Northeast

India, Nov. 6 -- The new, yet-to-be-named political party announced by Meghalaya chief minister and National People's Party (NPP) chief Conrad Sangma and TIPRA Motha leader Pradyot Manikya DebBarma, a... Read More


In Bihar, the wait for a new governance model

India, Nov. 6 -- Back in 2010, I, like scores of development researchers and policy wonks, was a frequent traveller to rural Bihar. The joke was that if you wanted a job in "development", all you had ... Read More


Basic structure touchstone for anti-conversion laws

India, Nov. 6 -- As of August 2024, four years after Uttar Pradesh enacted its anti-conversion law, 1,682 people have been arrested and 835 criminal cases filed under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of ... Read More