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Pune, April 10 Four employees of the Pune Municipal Corporation were suspended on Friday after hundreds of dead fish were found in Pashan Lake, in Maharashtra's second-largest city.PMC chief Naval Kishore Ram said he inspected Pashan Lake on Friday and found that a sewage treatment plant (STP)...

Jaipur, April 9 – Former IAS officer Subodh Agarwal, who had been evading arrest in connection with the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) scam in Rajasthan, was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), officials said on Thursday.The ACB team brought Agarwal from Delhi to Jaipur, where he was...

Islamabad, April 6 – A British parliamentary group has expressed deep concerns over the case of Maria Shehbaz, a Christian girl who was allegedly kidnapped and forced to marry in Pakistan.The parliamentary group's statement comes after Pakistan's Federal Constitutional Court ruled that Maria...

Mumbai, April 4 Maharashtra Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik has ordered a comprehensive re-verification of all autorickshaw permits and badge distribution in the Mira-Bhayandar area near Mumbai, following complaints of alleged irregularities and the use of fake documents, officials said.The...

Puducherry, April 3 Veteran Congress leader V Narayanasamy has alleged that the cabinet led by Chief Minister N Rangasamy is under investigation in the scam involving the manufacturing and supply of counterfeit drugs to 8 states, and alleged a bribe of "Rs 40 lakh for a Resto bar license," while...

Hubballi (Karnataka), March 30 Deputy Commissioner of the Commercial Tax Department, Bharath Kumar Hegde, was caught on Monday while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 6 lakh, Lokayukta officials said.Hegde, 48, was caught while receiving the money from businessman Vishwajit Nayak, 53, from...

Kathmandu, March 29 Nepal's newly formed government has established a commission under its ambitious 100-point work plan to investigate the properties and assets of former state heads.The Cabinet on Saturday decided to form a committee, the Commission for the Investigation of the Abuse of...

Hyderabad, March 29 Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on Sunday demanded the immediate dismissal of Telangana Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy over allegations of corruption and illegal mining.BRS MLAs staged a protest at Gun Park near the Assembly building and later raised the issue in the House...

Kathmandu, March 28 – The newly elected government of Nepal has arrested former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak in connection with a culpable homicide case linked to the suppression of Gen Z protests, which resulted in the deaths of several protesters...

Shimla, March 27 Irregularities, including bills for male ovarian surgeries and the use of expired lenses, have surfaced in an internal audit of the Himcare scheme, prompting a vigilance investigation, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu told the Assembly on Friday.The chief...

Mumbai, March 25 Maharashtra Revenue Minister Chandrakant Bawankule told the legislative council on Wednesday that a state committee had found serious irregularities in 424 land-related orders passed in Pune, following which the government sent officials in 13 of the most serious cases on...

Mumbai, March 25 Maharashtra Legislative Council Chairman Ram Shinde said on Wednesday that his deputy Neelam Gorhe's order to suspend Satara SP Tushar Doshi over the commotion during the Zilla Parishad president election would be forwarded to legal and constitutional experts for their opinion...

Kathmandu, March 25 – A high-level inquiry commission formed to investigate incidents during last year's Gen-Z movement in Nepal has recommended a criminal investigation and prosecution of former Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli, former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak, and then Police Chief Chandra...

Hyderabad, March 24 Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K.T. Rama Rao accused the Congress government in Telangana on Tuesday of engaging in diversionary politics and misleading the public on key issues by filing a charge sheet in the Formula E race case.He alleged that the...

Important cases listed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday, March 24:* The Supreme Court will hear petitions challenging the validity of the Waqf Amendment Act, 2025.* The Supreme Court will hear a petition filed by the Enforcement Directorate against the West Bengal government and others...

Chandigarh, March 23 The Shiromani Akali Dal and Congress have alleged that a PCS officer was subjected to mental harassment by the Moga Deputy Commissioner to ensure that AAP candidates were elected as chairperson and vice-chairperson of the Baghapurana Panchayat Samiti.Shiromani Akali Dal...

Bhubaneswar, March 19 The Odisha Assembly was adjourned three times on Thursday as the opposition disrupted the proceedings, demanding the resignation of State Health Minister Mukesh Mahaling over the deaths of 12 patients at a state-run hospital in Cuttack.The House saw multiple adjournments...

Bhubaneswar, March 18 – Following the tragic fire incident at the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack on March 16, which officially claimed the lives of 12 patients, as many as four individuals – including three fire department officials and one engineer – have been suspended on charges...

Indore, March 18 Eight members of a family were killed after a fire broke out at a local businessman's three-story house following an explosion at an Electric Vehicle (EV) charging point outside the building in Indore city of Madhya Pradesh early on Wednesday, officials said.Investigators said...

Indore, March 18 Eight members of a family were killed when a fire broke out in a three-story house after an explosion at an Electric Vehicle (EV) charging point outside the building in Indore early on Wednesday, officials said.The deceased included two minor children and three women, they...