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“Bharatmala Pariyojana is aimed at developing 35,000 km of national highways to make freight movement across the country more efficient. Yet, the most remarkable feature of the project has been the efficiency with which costs have been inflated and projects handed over to the Prime Minister’s close friends and his party’s electoral bond donors, as shown in a recent CAG report covering the period 2017-21,” Congress General Secretary in-charge Communications Jairam Ramesh said.“The Union government’s National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) awarded a 250 km project to four-lane the national highway between Suryapet and Khammam in Telangana to a consortium…

After Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s public assurance to ensure education and job quotas for Marathas, BJP’s Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis called up Manoj Jarange, the Maratha Kranti Morcha leader spearheading the hunger strike, and said that the government does not endorse the police baton-charge on the protestors.Later, BJP Minister Girish Mahajan and MLA Nitesh N. Rane went to meet the protestors in their tent in Antaravli-Sarati village where it all started on Friday evening, prompting breakaway Nationalist Congress Party’s Deputy CM Ajit Pawar to order a full investigation into the violence. On behalf of the state government, Mahajan is…

A meeting in this regard was held in the Youth Hostel at Gandhi Maidan on Sunday for four hours where 15 teachers associations participated.The associations unanimously decided to protest against the cancellation of teacher leave this year.“We are working 252 days in the year while the target set by the education department is only for 220 days. Still, the department has slashed the leaves of teachers. We have decided to start agitation against the government’s action.“All our teachers on September 5 — Teachers Day — will wear black ribbons as a mark of protest,” said Raju Singh, convener of TET…

The assailant barged into a house in RTC Colony in LB Nagar and attacked the youth, Prithvi, and his sister, Sanghavi, with a knife. The duo were admitted to a nearby hospital, where Prithvi later succumbed to his injuries. Police have arrested the attacker, identified as Shivakumar. He was allegedly pressurising Sanghavi for the marriage. Deputy Commissioner of Police Sai Sri, who visited the crime scene, said the police were questioning the accused. She said the murder was linked to a love affair but further questioning of the accused would help police to find out more about the motive behind…

The Karnataka Department of School Education and Literacy has also ordered a departmental inquiry against the teacher.Manjula Devi, who was working at Urdu Government Higher Primary School in Shivamogga, has been transferred to a school at Hosamana Tanda in Hassan taulk.The teacher had allegedly told a couple of Class 5 students to go to Pakistan while scolding them for making noise in the classroom.She told them that this is a country of Hindus and they should go to Pakistan. The incident occurred on August 30.The students returned home after school and reported the incident to their parents.They in turn contacted…

Playing on his home courts, Siddharth called the shots from the start as he controlled the rallies and with Vaidya committing a series of errors he went on to complete a deserving 11-4, 11-5, 11-7 win and a place in the quarterfinals.Meanwhile, top seed Yuvraj Wadhwani of Maharashtra surprisingly conceded his match against compatriot Narayan Manohar Lachka of Khopoli. Wadhwani after leading 2-0 (11-1, 11-3) and 1-0 in the third game retired without citing any reason.Second seed Vivaan Shah easily advanced to the quarterfinals defeating unseeded Mishall Daruvala 11-4, 11-1, and 11-2 in another last-16 encounter.In the Boys’ U-17 Round-32…

He has rolled out the restaurant in Dubai’s Festival City Mall as he awaits the release of his film with Kareena Kapoor Khan, ‘The Buckingham Murders’, also directed by Mehta, at the 67th BFI London Festival next month.Of course, for the restaurant, which will have a pan-Indian menu spanning the country from Kashmir to Kanyakumari (as its name suggests), Brar said he shut himself away from the world for two month to get the food right.In the bargain, he made discoveries such as the Naga black sesame chicken, which is light and bursting with flavours, and will be served just…

Udhayanidhi, who is Tamil Nadu’s Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs and son of Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, during a meeting on Saturday, said that “Sanatana Dharma has to be eradicated just like mosquitoes, malaria, dengue and Corona.”Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters, BJP national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said, “The topic addressed by the DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin was the ‘Eradication of Sanatana Dharma’. He read the statement from a paper. It is highly shameful. It is a case of the hate speech.”The statement he gave was not accidental but absolutely intentional, he claimed.Taking a swipe at the…

Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli were packed off early in the match as Shaheen Shah Afridi struck twice. Rohit managed to score only 11 runs off 22 deliveries while Kohli departed scoring 4 runs.Talking on his YouTube channel, Salman Butt stated, “I was saying earlier that apart from 2-3 players, there’s a lack of experience when it comes to such intense pressure games (in the Indian team).“The best thing that happened to India today was that their main players (Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli) were dismissed early and that their youngsters staged a comeback. They took them to a respectable…

They have also been accused of fabricating reports and the FIR has been registered against former Brigadier Naveen Singh, Lt. Col R.P. Ram, and Col Dushyant Singh. Indus Towers Limited, based in Lucknow, and Indus Towers Limited, based in Gurugram have also been implicated in the FIR.A senior CBI official said that they received reliable information that Brigadier Naveen Singh, while serving as the ex-officio chairman of the Cantonment Board, Kanpur, facilitated the establishment of seven Cell Towers on Wheels (CoWs) on A-1 Category land in the Cantonment Area of Kanpur, grossly violating the Ministry of Defence’s guidelines.The circular in…