NEW DELHI: All citizens born after October 1, 2023 – the day the amended Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 2023, came into effect – will now be required to mandatorily attach their birth certificate as proof of date of birth while applying for a passport.However, those born before this cutoff date can still submit…
NEW DELHI: The past month was the warmest Feb in India since record keeping commenced in the country in 1901 and the upcoming hot weather season (March-May) is likely to be warmer than normal in most parts of the country with a high number of heatwave days during the period, the IMD said on Friday.Both…
NEW DELHI: The UGC informed SC Friday no incident of suicide was reported from central, state, private and deemed universities as well as colleges even as petitioners, mothers of two students who died by suicide, claimed that IITs, IIMs and national law universities have not given data in this regard.The UGC affidavit was placed before…
NEW DELHI: In contrast to the general refrain that lawyers extract money from gullible clients ignorant about the legal processes, a private company successfully dodged payment of legal assistance fee to a lawyers’ firm successfully by exploiting a little-known provision in Indian Partnership Act.‘The Chennai Law Firm’ had filed a suit against Reyvish Associates Pvt…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday protected Sadhguru-led Isha Foundation‘s yoga and meditation centre at Coimbatore from Tamil Nadu government’s ire by quashing a show cause notice issued to it by state pollution control board alleging constructions carried out between 2006-2014 without prior environment clearance.While upholding the Madras HC’s 2022 decision to quash the show…
NEW DELHI/THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Congress warned party functionaries from Kerala against speaking out of turn or breaching the discipline, warning that action will be taken if any neta “crossed the party line”. The message came as the party brass brainstormed with the state unit to prepare for assembly polls scheduled next year. The party specifically told state…
Each Nov, as doors of Badrinath temple close, residents of Mana move to Gopeshwar, Jyotirmath, and Jhinkwan in Chamoli district, leaving behind their homes and livelihoods to escape harsh winter DEHRADUN: Mana, a 2,000-strong village in the upper reaches of Garhwal Himalayas, had already emptied out when disaster struck. By the time an avalanche crashed…
AJMER/BHILWARA/JAIPUR: Protests over alleged sexual exploitation of at least six minor girls in Rajasthan’s Bijayanagar and Tonk have snowballed to other areas. Kishangarh witnessed a complete shutdown Friday, while Ajmer is set to follow suit Saturday.It is alleged that five Class X girls were filmed in compromising situations, blackmailed and sexually exploited in Beawar’s Bijaynagar…
NEW DELHI: GNSS-based tolling on NHs won’t take off in the immediate future as senior government officials have told a Parliamentary panel that the new system will be deployed only after India has its own requisite constellation of navigational satellites with full coverage.Sources said that in response to a question on the new tolling mechanism,…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Police intervened at long last on Friday to save a 57-year-old woman entrepreneur’s brick business from being pulled down by unionised headload workers. The group had harassed her to pay higher than stipulated wages and stopped others from working at the kiln, disregarding even a Kerala HC order restraining them from disrupting operations.The…
