NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has said that it is wasting a lot of judicial time these days as people convicted in serious offences are filing frivolous petitions long after dismissal of their appeals claiming to be juveniles at the time of committing the offence.Twin factors have given wing to such pleas – an SC ruling…
BENGALURU: Karnataka govt’s controversial decision to introduce hefty job reservations for “local candidates” in the private sector faced a severe backlash from industry bodies and the business community, forcing chief minister Siddaramaiah to retract, at least temporarily.Late Wednesday night, the CMO released a message stating: “The job reservation bill for Kannadigas, cleared by the state…
NEW DELHI: In a relief to many homebuyers who booked flats under the subvention plan and have not received possession of their flats in various projects across the NCR due to inordinate delays by developers, the Supreme Court has directed that no coercive action be taken against them by banks or builders regarding payment of…
NEW DELHI: Los Angeles Knight Riders collected two valuable points to stay alive in the race for the Major League Cricket 2024 playoffs with a four-wicket victory against Seattle Orcas at Church Street Park in Morrisville on Wednesday.Batting first after winning the toss, Seattle Orcas were restricted to 142/6 despite a 52-ball 89-run blitzkrieg knock…
WHO defines zero-dose children as those who lack access to or are never reached by routine immunisation services. They are operationally measured as those who did not receive their first dose of the DPT (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus) vaccine. It is mainly used to communicate about immunisation gaps and to push for concerted efforts to…
NEW DELHI: Saurabh Gaikwad, the 25-year-old son of former Pune deputy mayor and NCP (SP) politician Bandu Gaikwad, allegedly rammed his speeding SUV into a poultry tempo transporting chickens, injuring two people in Pune early Tuesday morning, the police said.The incident occurred at approximately 5 AM at Z Corner on Manjari-Mundhwa Road when Saurabh Gaikwad…
US President Joe Biden has tested positive for Covid-19 while traveling in Las Vegas, the White House announced on Wednesday. He is currently experiencing “mild symptoms” from the infection.White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that Biden will fly to his home in Delaware to self-isolate, where he will continue to carry out all his…
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RANCHI: Jharkhand should treat Assam as a cautionary tale of how demographic change caused by “infiltration from Bangladesh” has become “a matter of life and death” for the state’s indigenous population, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said Wednesday in Ranchi.“In Assam, Muslim population is 40%. It was 12% in 1951. We lost districts due to infiltration…
BENGALURU: A special court for CBI cases in Bengaluru permitted a 41-year-old man accused in a fraud case to leave the country to join a private firm in Canada, reports Santoshkumar B.CBI had arrested one Joe Abraham Mathews, a resident of Mysuru, over the charge of obtaining a home loan from a nationalized bank using…
