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After spike in leopard attacks, state to seek milder wildlife protection rules

Mumbai, Nov. 19 -- Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday directed officials to declare leopard attacks on humans as a "state disaster" and to urge the Centre to move leopards from Schedule I to ... Read More


Moved from Tansa pipeline in '17, PAPs still await permanent homes

MUMBAI, Nov. 19 -- Around 1,000 project affected families, including 51-year-old Kiran Shelke, residing in Vidyavihar and Ghatkopar lost their shanties in the summer of 2017. Their homes were razed by... Read More


Panel set up to probe govt's Rs.79-cr smoke detectors purchase

Mumbai, Nov. 19 -- Maharashtra's Directorate of Medical Education and Research (DMER) has constituted a committee to scrutinise a major procurement of 839 smoke detectors for three hospitals, after co... Read More


Firm's partners who duped 200 investors booked

Thane, Nov. 19 -- The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Thane Police has registered a case against the partners of real estate firm Ekdant Housing for allegedly defrauding approximately 200 investor... Read More


Role of rented i10 car in blast plot under lens

New Delhi, Nov. 19 -- Investigators probing the deadly blast near Delhi's Red Fort suspect that a fifth vehicle - a rented Hyundai i10 - was used by the so-called "white collar" terror module to trans... Read More


Bullet train will begin ops by Aug '27: Rly min

New Delhi, Nov. 19 -- India's first bullet train will begin operations on the Ahmedabad-Vapi stretch by August 2027, covering 100 km, Union railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday. "(The) b... Read More


Can violations be regularised after damage, ask experts

New Delhi, Nov. 19 -- Following the Supreme Court's decision - by a 2-1 majority - to recall its May 16 judgment barring ex-post-facto environmental clearances (EC), legal and environmental experts sa... Read More


The unrequited loves of fandoms: Cambridge Dictionary names 'Parasocial' word of 2025

Mumbai, Nov. 19 -- Who saw this coming? Cambridge Dictionary has named Parasocial as the Word of the Year for 2025. It defines the term as "involving or relating to a connection that someone feels bet... Read More


guj: 4 including day-old infant, doctor killed in ambulance fire

Ahmedabad, Nov. 19 -- Four people - a day-old infant, his father, a doctor and a nurse - died after an ambulance they were travelling in caught fire near Modasa en route to Ahmedabad in Aravalli, Guja... Read More


brazil releases cop30 draft on paris agreement

Belem, Nov. 19 -- BelemThe agreement from Belem, which promised to restore multilateralism in a geopolitically difficult year, has started taking shape. On Tuesday, the COP30 Presidency proposed the d... Read More