The Supreme Court on Tuesday lashed out at the Centre after Attorney-General K.K. Venugopal urged the court to allow the NRC work to be kept in abeyance during the Lok Sabha election, observing that the Ministry of Home Affairs had been attempting to undermine “the Assam NRC process from the …
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Explain measures for tiger protection: High Court
Responding to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by a wildlife activist, the Telangana High Court on Tuesday directed the top brass of the Forest Department, including the Kawal Tiger Reserve Field Director, to explain measures taken by them to protect tigers in the State. A Division Bench comprising Chief …
Read More »6 new schemes, sops for ryots, women in interim Budget
Ahead of the upcoming general elections, the State government on Tuesday showered sops on the farming community, the women and the entrepreneurs in the vote-on-account Budget presented for 2019-20 with an outlay of Rs. 2.26 lakh crore. Deviating from the convention followed in the vote-on-account budget, it announced six new …
Read More »Question, but don’t arrest Kolkata police chief: SC to CBI
Hours after the Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar to make himself “available” to the CBI for questioning in the chit fund scam cases, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee called off her dharna. The court, however, barred the CBI from taking any coercive steps, including …
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