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NEW DELHI: Communities living around areas in India that witness mining operations are showing measurable signs of lung impairment and heavy-metal exposure, according to new data tabled in Lok Sabha.The health ministry, citing Indian Council of Medical Research studies, has confirmed that residents in mining belts face risks comparable to those for workers directly involved…

NEW DELHI: At least 23 people died in a massive fire that engulfed a Birch By Romeo Lane club “The incident is very unfortunate for a tourism state like Goa. The people who run such things illegally, and a fire incident occurred…23 people have lost their lives…The government will conduct an inquiry into this incident….

Union minister for defence Rajnath Singh (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Sharing excerpts from a book containing Vallabhbhai Patel’s daught-er’s diaries, Congress Saturday accused defence minister Rajnath Singh of lying that Jawaharlal Nehru wanted to build the Babri mosque using public funds, and demanded that Singh apologise to the nation for spreading falsehoods about the country’s…

Fr Richard D’Souza with Pope Leo XIV. D’Souza has served as superior of the Jesuit community attached to Vatican Observatory since 2002 PANAJI: Physicist, astronomer, scientist, Indiana Jones. Not quite the words to describe a priest, let alone a 46-year-old Jesuit from Mapusa. But that is exactly what Fr Richard D’Souza is.At the Vatican Observatory…

CHANDIGARH: A single day cannot erase a year of service, the Punjab and Haryana high court has ruled while deciding that a retiree cannot be deprived of an earned increment simply because his superannuation falls a few hours before it.The court passed these orders while granting relief to a retired BSF inspector who was refused…

MEERUT: Stressing that “no home can be demolished without due process”, a division bench of justices Ajit Kumar and Satyavir Singh of Allahabad HC stayed the demolition of 27 houses in Bareilly’s Shahabad area in Prem Nagar, directing the civic authorities not to take any coercive action “until the competent authority passes a final order.“The…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi Saturday said India was witnessing a “psychological renaissance” as it shook off the slavery mindset, which was reflected in its slow pace of development being termed as Hindu rate of growth, and asserted that the country was now the growth-driver of the global economy.The PM said…

Building a place of worship is a constitutional right, Kabir declared BERHAMPORE/KOLKATA: The programme, organised by suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir at Beldanga, happened under heavy security. Authorities reported no clashes. Kabir addressed about 400 people from a two-tier stage set nearly a kilometre from the proposed mosque site, introduced two clerics described as being…

NEW DELHI: More than 20 years after her marriage, Rousanara Begum finally heard the words she had waited for when the Supreme Court recently ruled that a divorced Muslim woman can reclaim the wedding gifts her parents gave her at the time of marriage.Now nearly 45, she told TOI on Saturday: “It started two decades…

KOLKATA: The pre-hearing phase of Bengal’s SIR of electoral rolls is nearing completion with nearly 100% of 7.6 crore voters’ data having already been digitised. But, between 28 lakh and 30 lakh voters will, in all probability, have to attend poll officials’ hearings if they want to stay on the rolls as they remain unmapped…