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Air, water pollution disputes kept NGT busy in 2020 amid coronavirus pandemic

2:22 pm December 30, 2020

New Delhi: Apex environment adjudication body NGT handled disputes involving multi-disciplinary issues relating to air and water pollution through a smooth digital workflow despite the novel coronavirus pandemic this year resulting in a nationwide lockdown. The National Green Tribunal, though working with handful of Judicial and Expert Members, that too via video conferencing, made its presence […]

History-sheeter held in UP after brief encounter

UP STF busts ‘charas’ smuggling racket, arrests 7 people in Kanpur

8:28 pm December 28, 2020

Lucknow: Seven people, including three women, were arrested in Kanpur by a Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh Police on Monday for alleged involvement in an internatinal ‘charas’ smuggling racket, officials said. The STF of UP Police busted the racket with the arrest of seven people from Kanpur Dehat area, it said in a statement issued here. Thirty kilograms […]

IMD warns cold wave in 9 Odisha districts, Phulbani coldest at 7.5 degree Celsius

La Nina influences 2020 as India records above normal rains, harsher winter, reduced heatwave

4:04 pm December 28, 2020

New Delhi: La Nina seemed to have played a critical role in influencing the country’s weather in 2020 which was a second consecutive year of above normal rainfall with below normal temperatures in the winter and less occurrence of heatwaves. The year also saw formation of five cyclones in the seas along eastern and western […]

SC keeps judicial wheels turning during COVID-19, paves way for hanging in Nirbhaya case

2:48 pm December 23, 2020

New Delhi: Wide-ranging directions passed in the “world war” against COVID-19 to alleviate the plight of citizens and keeping the wheels of judiciary turning by delivering several key verdicts, including the one which led to the hanging of four convicts in the sensational Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, were the key imprints left by the Supreme […]

Cold wave persists in north India

10:14 pm December 21, 2020

New Delhi: Many parts of north India was under the grip of a cold wave with minimum temperatures remaining below the 5 degrees Celsius-mark at several places, while the 40-day harshest winter period, ‘Chillai-Kalan, began in Kashmir on Monday. The 40-day period from December 21 to January 31 is considered the harshest winter period as a cold […]