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Slain liquor baron Ponty Chadha’s son Manpreet Singh Chadha was granted bail on June 17, 2019, in an alleged real estate fraud case. Additional session judge Gulshan Kumar granted relief to Manpreet, who was … READ FULL STORY
Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy, on June 13, 2019, launched 118 websites that would enable citizens to get building plan approvals, diversion of land use change and other related permissions through online submissions, avoiding … READ FULL STORY
Three persons, including two officials of state-owned city planning agency CIDCO (City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra Ltd), have been arrested in a Rs 2.50-lakh bribery case, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said, on … READ FULL STORY
A Rs 500-fine was imposed on India cricket captain Virat Kohli, after a domestic help was found cleaning a car with running water from a pipe outside Kohli’s DLF Phase 1 residence in Gurugram, … READ FULL STORY
A bench headed by National Green Tribunal (NGT) chairperson justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, while noting that illegal installation of tubewells was an offence under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, asked the Delhi Jal Board … READ FULL STORY
A concession agreement was signed, on June 5, 2019, for the Howrah, Bally and Baranagar and Kamarhati sewage treatment plant (STP) projects under the centre’s Namami Gange initiative, the Jal Shakti Ministry said. The … READ FULL STORY
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Diversified conglomerate ITC Ltd, on June 5, 2019, said it has joined hands with the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and a waste-pickers cooperative, to collect and process multi-layered plastic (MLP) waste in the city. … READ FULL STORY
Haryana plans to undertake a mammoth exercise to inspect coaching centres, schools, colleges, hotels, cinema halls and other commercial buildings across the state, to avert a Surat-like fire tragedy in which at least 22 … READ FULL STORY
A preliminary probe into the causes of the devastating fire in Surat at a coaching class, which claimed the lives of 22 students last week, has highlighted various lapses on the part of officials … READ FULL STORY
With a view to strengthening the supervision and regulation of commercial banks, urban cooperative banks and non-banking financial companies, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) board has decided to create a specialised supervisory and … READ FULL STORY
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT), on May 21, 2019 that it has planted around 1 crore trees throughout the country in the past 3 years, to … READ FULL STORY
The Supreme Court, on May 21, 2019, stayed the Delhi High Court order, which had held that the 2016 black money law cannot be allowed to operate with retrospective effect from July 2015, to … READ FULL STORY
