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New Delhi: Ahead of Christmas, Delhi govt has allowed churches to store up to 4,000 litres of wine annually, a significant increase from the earlier cap of 91 litres. A notification issued by the finance department said the govt has amended Rule 20 of the Delhi Excise Rules, 2010, substantially enhancing the quantity of sacramental wine that churches can procure. "Earlier, the rule permitted the Bishop...

Mumbai: Govt departments and public authorities owe the BMC more than Rs 3,000 crore in property tax dues and the civic body has managed to recover only Rs 243 crore from them over the past five years, information shared by the BMC under the Right to Information (RTI) Act has revealed.The data was provided by the civic body in response to an RTI query filed by civic activist and advocate Godfrey...

DELHI: Delhi Police arrested two men for creating a fake Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) website and cheating job aspirants by advertising non-existent vacancies across various posts.The accused were identified as Kuldeep (30), a B.Com graduate currently pursuing a second-year LL.B., and his associate Piyush (25), a B.Tech graduate in Computer Science, who developed the fake website.The accused...

Mumbai: Bombay high court has directed the state govt to extend the benefit of Rs 50 lakh compensation to the family of a zilla parishad frontline worker from Kolhapur who died of Covid in July 2021, saying the cutoff date under such a welfare scheme cannot be sacrosanct.A bench of Justices M S Karnik and Ajit B Kadethankar, while allowing a writ petition filed by the legal heirs of Yashwant Khandu...

NEW DELHI: Delhi minister Parvesh Verma on Thursday acknowledged that toxic air has become a serious menace for the national capital, while squarely blaming former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for what he described as years of inaction on pollution control.“We accept that toxic air is a big menace,” Verma said, alleging that the previous AAP government failed to...

Kolkata: The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Calcutta High Court's decision and ordered that Aniket Mahata be posted at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in two weeks. The state approached the SC against Calcutta High Court's order of posting Mahata at RG Kar instead of Raiganj Medical College.Mahata, a prominent face of the RG Kar agitation, moved the single bench of Justice Biswajit Basu,...

Mumbai: The state govt has issued detailed guidelines on activities that state board schools must conduct on Saturdays under the expanded ‘Ananddayi Shanivar' programme, aimed at promoting experiential and value-based learning.According to a circular issued by the school education department, Saturdays will be reserved for activities such as parent interaction meets, cultural programmes and...

KOLKATA: Suspended Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir on Tuesday claimed he would emerge as a "kingmaker" in the 2026 West Bengal assembly elections, asserting that no government could be formed without the support of his proposed new political outfit.Kabir predicted that neither the ruling TMC nor the BJP would secure a simple majority on their own, estimating that no party would cross the 148-seat...

PUDUCHERRY: TVK general secretary Bussy Anand on Tuesday said the party can form the govt in Puducherry in 2026 if the party functionaries and cadres work “intensely for the next four months.” Addressing a public meeting, he said just as party president Vijay is set to become Tamil Nadu chief minister in 2026, TVK will also form the govt in Puducherry.He said police had imposed 31 conditions for...

Chennai: Chief minister M K Stalin said the DMK will garner at least 2.5 crore votes in the upcoming assembly election due to the welfare measures rolled out by his govt across the state.Addressing the DMK district secretaries via video conference from Chennai, Stalin said the DMk govt's welfare programmes have directly benefitted 1.86 crore people, which would help the party improve its perfomence in...