GUWAHATI: Fissures in BJP’s Manipur unit over CM N Biren Singh‘s handling of the ongoing strife deepened Tuesday after 19 of 37 saffron party MLAs representing either side of the ethnic divide skipped the previous night’s NDA meeting in which a resolution was passed to go all out against the “Kuki militants” suspected to have…
NEW DELHI: Turning the rural housing scheme into a weapon of empowerment, the Centre is aiming to ensure 100% women ownership of the houses being built for the poor.In the second phase of PMAY (rural), government will strictly implement the mandatory clause that the houses be registered in the name of the women members of…
NEW DELHI: Delhi high court issued on Tuesday summons against US-based artificial intelligence firm OpenAI on a plea alleging unauthorised use of content by the company to train and operate its AI tool ChatGPT, thereby violating copyright laws. This is the first such lawsuit in India against a US-based AI major. HC sought the AI…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday asked jail superintendents to identify all undertrial prisoners, including women undertrials, who have undergone incarceration for one-third or half of the maximum punishment prescribed for offences they are accused of and send their cases to concerned courts for grant of bail.A bench of Justices Hrishikesh Roy and S V…
BENGALURU: Days after wine merchants alleged corruption in transfers and licence renewals in Karnataka excise department, minister RB Timmapur may be eased out of the ministry or assigned a different portfolio, and the crisis-hit department may go to chief minister Siddaramaiah.Sources indicated Tuesday that Timmapur may get a new role following tough signals from high…
NEW DELHI: IAF must keep adapting to evolving challenges while undertaking measures to make the process of capability and capacity-building more efficient and effective, defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday.Addressing IAF commanders’ conference , Singh stressed the need for armed forces to focus on execution of projects in a time-bound manner to address operational…
GUWAHATI: The Assam cabinet on Tuesday approved the renaming of Karimganj district in the Barak Valley, bordering Bangladesh, as Sribhumi.Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, while making the announcement, observed that it honours Tagore’s vision, who designated the current geographical area of undivided India as Sribhumi. “Over a century ago, Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore described modern-day Karimganj…
CHENNAI: The Madras high court has restrained the Chennai-based Music Academy from conferring the “Sangita Kalanidhi M S Subbulakshmi” award on singer T M Krishna for 2024.Justice G Jayachandran, however, said there is no bar on conferring the award without using the name of MS Subbulakshmi to recognise the achievement of Krishna. The “mirror award”,…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday told the Union govt that it cannot indefinitely defer the delimitation exercise for redrawing boundaries of parliamentary and assembly constituencies in north-eastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Nagaland in violation of the mandate of Article 82 of the Constitution.Article 82 mandates carrying out a delimitation exercise after…
NEW DELHI: Adopting contrasting approaches to do complete justice in two matrimonial cases, Supreme Court on Tuesday told a woman seeking restitution of conjugal rights that courts cannot force a person to live with another, while in the other it ordered grant of alimony to a woman who had voluntarily deserted her husband.In the first…
