NEW DELHI: Faced with opposition, government on Tuesday cancelled the move to recruit 45 mid-level bureaucrats through “lateral entry” and announced the extension of quotas to such inductions as well.Government asked Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to withdraw the advertisement for 45 lateral inductions for the posts of joint secretaries, directors and deputy secretaries, in…
CHENNAI: Chief minister M K Stalin on Tuesday welcomed the decision of UPSC to cancel the advertisement rolled out for lateral entry hiring in government jobs, terming it “a victory for social justice“. Stalin said on X, “The Union government has withdrawn the lateral entry recruitment after strong opposition from #INDIA bloc.” Opposition parties came…
NEW DELHI: India and Malaysia upgraded their relations to a “comprehensive strategic partnership” as PM Narendra Modi hosted his counterpart Anwar Ibrahim for wide-ranging talks that saw the two sides sign nine MoUs, including one for the welfare of 140,000 Indian workers in the southeast Asian country. The leaders discussed the need to counter radicalisation…
KOTA: An 18-year-old boy was found dead in a suspected condition in his hostel room’s bathroom at Old Rajiv Gandhi Nagar under Jawahar Nagar police station area of Kota city on Monday morning.Following his parents’ refusal to conduct a post-mortem, the body was handed over to family members for last rites, and no case was…
NEW DELHI: The government has directed all Centre-run hospitals to allow only one or two attendants with a patient at any time, including visiting hours.It has also suggested creating a pass system for attendants to prevent overcrowding and monitoring of all visitors. The direction, which has been sent to the heads of all central govt…
NEW DELHI: Strongly disapproving of the sweeping observations made by the Calcutta high court, including advising adolescent girls to control their sexual urges instead of giving in to “two minutes of pleasure” while deciding a criminal appeal, the Supreme Court on Tuesday urged judges to decide cases based on law and facts and not to…
KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress’s Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy on Tuesday told Calcutta high court he had deleted the contentious posts on X that had prompted Kolkata Police to summon him for spreading misinformation, adding that he had spoken to the cops about this. The state told the HC that no coercive action would be…
JAMMU: A joint team of security forces unearthed an underground terrorist hideout in the dense forests of Sagrawat in J&K’s Rajouri district Tuesday evening and seized ammunition and other items, police said.“Based on intelligence inputs, a police team from Darhal PS, along with personnel from SoG, CRPF and the Army’s Rashtriya Rifles launched a cordon-and-search…
J&K’s Kishtwar district administration on Tuesday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old Hindu girl by a member of another community in Marwah area on Saturday, after protests by locals over the incident escalated following alleged police high-handedness.Kishtwar SSP Abdul Qayoom said an FIR had been registered under the Pocso…
JAMMU: A day after 54-year-old CRPF inspector Kuldeep Kumar was killed in a terror attack in a remote forest in J&K’s Udhampur district, the paramilitary force Tuesday paid tributes to the slain officer even as a cordon-and-search operation in the forest belt of Chill, Dudu-Basantgarh area to track down the terrorists — who had escaped…
