Mangroves absorb excess water but they are being destroyed in Mumbai in the guise of infrastructure development, city-based environmentalist Debi Goenka told PTI.
Five persons were killed when a deputy superintendent of police lost control over his SUV near Pune on Monday evening, police said.
"Water has gone above the head. Now we mean business. You (Centre) will arrange everything now," the court said.
'Both the Centre and the states cannot say that they have been taking good care of public health.'
'He deliberately encouraged my rivals to diminish my influence in the party.'
P-note is, however, now not a preferred route for investing in India as Sebi has made registration easier and also desirable for FPIs.
The president also pitched for simultaneous elections to Parliament and state assemblies, saying there was a need to discuss and build a consensus among all parties on the possibility of holding simultaneous polls.
'After Aly comes out, we will have to get our families together and think about the future.'
'Can we slip through the cracks in the alliance and use the situation to our advantage?'
'If they think they can silence us by suspending us, then they don't know what BJP MLAs are made of.'
Smriti Irani will reprise her electoral battle with Rahul Gandhi from Amethi.
In a sarcastic move, some BJP MPs on Tuesday offered roses to their Congress rivals in the Lok Sabha who were protesting inside the well over alleged atrocities against Dalit youths in Punjab.
The cross-Line of Control surgical strikes, policy towards Pakistan, the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, besides One Rank, One Pension and the plight of farmers were also among issues that were raised at the meeting with parties demanding discussion on them.
As cases of 'black fungus' among COVID-19 patients in the country rise to cross 7,000, the Centre on Thursday urged all states and union territories to declare it as a notifiable disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act to ensure mandatory surveillance to tackle the 'new challenge'.
The party has also expanded its list of spokesperson to 23, with MP Anil Baluni being elevated as the chief spokesperson and remaining its media head.
The new season will have Shilpa Shetty, Terence Lewis and Sajid Khan as judges and will be hosted by Karan Wahia and Gautam Rode.
The less charitable in the party say he owes his appointment Sonia Gandhi -- the family wanted someone who wouldn't talk back and would not exert himself too much, notes Aditi Phadnis.
Union minister Babul Supriyo on Tuesday tied the knot with his girlfriend Rachna Sharma.
He also said his opponents may hate him, call him 'Pappu' but he has no anger, hatred against the PM and the BJP.
The director of a cricket bat manufacturing firm has been kidnapped from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, the police said on Wednesday. Sudhir Mahajan, 55, the director of BDM company, was kidnapped on Thursday night when he was returning to his residence in his car from his factory, located on Delhi road.
India will boycott a Commonwealth parliamentary union meeting in Islamabad next month in protest against Pakistan not inviting the Speaker of Jammu and Kashmir assembly, a decision that comes in the midst of tensions over two terror attacks in Punjab and the Valley.
Mehbooba Mufti, the former chief minister, was detained on August 5, the day the Centre announced abrogation of special status to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370.
Tributes poured in as news came in of the death of the 10-time Lok Sabha MP who had joined the Communist Party of India-Marxist in 1968. Chatterjee was speaker of the Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2009.
'This is the first time in the history of Bigg Boss that nobody has tried to break up a couple.'
Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant said, "All airlines have come together banning him (Gaikwad), but it is our fundamental right (to travel by air)."
The Budget session of Parliament on Monday got off to a stormy start with the first day in Lok Sabha being virtually washed out on the issue of price rise and rail fare hike as a strident Opposition insisted on a discussion under an adjournment motion.
'I am happy Sanjay Raut and Sharad Pawar changed the game of Maharashtra politics.'
Take a look at the famous faces who exercised their democratic right.
Javadekar, along with Piyush Goyal and Dharmendra Pradhan, is among the few ministers who have party as well as ministerial responsibilities.
It is the Bharatiya Janata Party's turn to face the heat in the 2G spectrum scam case. Some of the associates of late Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan are under the scanner of the Income Tax Department and other security agencies. It is learnt that a very close associate of Mahajan had been summoned for questioning by the government agencies some time ago.
BJP MP Hema Malini on Wednesday blamed the father of the four-year-old girl for the child's death in the road accident involving the actress' Mercedes.
Speaker refuses to adjourn Lok Sabha despite the ruckus, in the Rajya Sabha it was the same old story.
Lok Sabha elections to 48 seats in the state will be held in four phases on April 11, 18, 23 and 29.
Aditya Mahajan a 2006 Mathematics (H) graduate from St Stephens College writes to us about the heady days that led him to the haloed institution and the three years that followed.
Only vegetarian dishes were served at the official dinner held at a state-run five-star hotel.
Birla, 57, has been MLA from Rajasthan thrice and MP twice.
Noisy protests by the members of the Congress and other opposition parties seeking an apology from the prime minister continued unabated throughout the day since the proceedings began.
To ensure that the National Sports Federations (NSFs) elect office bearers as per the Sports Code only, the government has hardened its stance and latest to fall in line is All India Tennis Association, which has agreed to elect its new President next month.
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