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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
A four-year ban on riverbed sand mining in the state spurred musclemen using coercive tactics to continue excavating. The restrictions have been lifted, but they carry on brazenly.
Editor's note: On a December evening in 2011, Kailash Meena was walking down a deserted street to attend a meeting in a village in Rajasthan’s Sikar district. As he looked at his phone to decline a call from an unknown number, one of the many he had received in the hour prior, he was waylaid by a group of men armed with iron rods. For the next few minutes, Meena was assaulted and verbally abused until the locals intervened. “It felt like an earthquake and shook me to my core, but the locals knew me and helped,” he recalls. “I went to the police station to register an FIR against the accused. Despite many pleas, the cops rejected doing so. I went to court and had my FIR lodged, but no arrests were made, and the police submitted a final report stating that no case could be formed out of it.” This wasn’t the first time Meena was attacked. The 57-year-old activist, who has been fighting against illegal mining in the state for more than two decades, has been attacked six times, …
The Kanjurmarg landfill, operated by Antony Waste Handling Cell Ltd., is safe from the axe for now. But its fate remains a major source of worry for the company's shareholders and the city's residents alike.
The apex court’s quashing of its over $4 bn relief request did little to dim the telco’s stellar all-round show in FY25 or the market’s love for the stock.
The Supreme Court set aside a Delhi High Court ruling that asked Wikipedia to remove an article about court proceedings in a case filed by ANI.
