Shopkeepers should display type of shop served, but need not display their names, castes or that of their employees, a bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and S.V.N. Bhatti says.
Bhopal: The BJP-ruled Ujjain Municipal Corporation has directed shop owners to display their names and mobile numbers outside their establishments in the ancient city,...
Swami Yashveer Maharaj has made headlines in the past for ‘converting Muslims back to Hinduism’ and issuing ‘ultimatums’ to administration to clear ‘jihadist’ encroachment.
According to a Gautam Buddh Nagar district administration official, this is a first, and earlier, stalls selling non-veg and liquor would be shut on the days of yatra.
Muslim owners & fruit vendors claim they were pressured by police to write their names on their shops. Eateries selling non-veg food have begun shutting down ahead of the Yatra.
While some dhabas along yatra route are complying with directive to display owners' names without question, others say it is discriminatory. Police say move is to 'maintain law & order'.
Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) president said he believes there are two classes of people – rich and poor – in the society and different castes and religions fall in both categories.
'This is Sambhal. Things may turn [for the worse] any moment here,' is the UP Police's argument. But Muslim shop owners say the police isn't allowing them to open their restaurants and sell just vegetarian dishes either.
Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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