NEW DELHI: Pakistan is choosing weapons over the welfare of its people despite its precarious economic condition, Admiral Dinesh Tripathi said on Monday, adding that India is tweaking its operational plans and strategy to tackle the expanding collusiveness between Islamabad and Beijing in the maritime domain after the land borders.“We are keeping a watch on…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday took strong exception to bureaucrats’ wives enjoying posts in societies functioning within the administrative jurisdictions of their husbands and said such practices, a product of colonial mindset, must be forthwith discarded.What irked a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan was the vindictive action indirectly taken by the…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday took strong exception to bureaucrats’ wives enjoying posts in societies functioning within the administrative jurisdictions of their husbands and said such practices, a product of colonial mindset, must be forthwith discarded.What irked a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan was the vindictive action indirectly taken by the…
DEHRADUN: National Green Tribunal (NGT), taking suo-motu cognisance of a media report earlier this year which indicated loss of forest cover up to 23 lakh hectares (ha) in the country since 2000, has directed Forest Survey of India (FSI), headquartered in Dehradun, to provide a comprehensive report on the matter.NGT, in an ongoing hearing of…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee (PTI file photo) KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee urged the Union govt Monday “to request the United Nations to deploy a peacekeeping force in Bangladesh” amid reports of attacks on minorities, particularly Hindus. She sought PM Narendra Modi’s “intervention” to ensure safe return of persecuted Indians from the neighbouring country.Banerjee…
New Delhi: Central Higher Education Institutions (CHEIs) have collectively filled 25,777 posts, including 15,139 faculty positions, as of Oct 29, 2024, education minister Dharmendra Pradhan informed Lok Sabha on Monday.Of these, 1,869 were reserved for SCs, 739 for STs, 3,089 for OBCs and 254 for PwDs, he said. His response was to a question by…
AMRITSAR: The five Sikh high priests pronounced Monday their punishment or tankhah for Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president and former Punjab deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal and other politicians of the party, three months after he was declared tankhaiya, meaning guilty of religious misconduct.The priests, led by Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh, directed Sukhbir…
Actress Nargis Fakhri‘s sister Aliya has been arrested and indicted in the US on murder in the first degree and related charges for “deliberately setting a deadly fire” in a home’s garage on Nov 2 that killed her ex-boyfriend and his female friend in the Jamaica neighbourhood of New York City’s borough of Queens.According to…
NEW DELHI: This Nov was the warmest on record in north India with the average mean temperature in the region crossing 20 degrees Celsius for the first time in records going back to 1901. Across the country, too, the month logged the second highest maximum temperatures, lower than only the Nov of 2016.Temperatures in Nov…
NEW DELHI: After a week marked by disruptions and no legislative business on Monday, Parliament has finally seen a breakthrough, with the govt and the opposition agreeing to discuss the Constitution, celebrating 75 years of its adoption. The discussions are scheduled for Dec 13 and 14 in Lok Sabha, and Dec 16 and 17 in…
