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…
District collector of Tamil Nadu’s Mayiladuthurai A P Mahabharathi TRICHY: The district collector of Tamil Nadu‘s Mayiladuthurai caused outrage Friday by allegedly suggesting that a three-year-old survivor of an attempted sexual assault may have “provoked” the actions of the suspect, a 16-year-old boy. The remark led the state to transfer A P Mahabharathi and appoint…
ISLAMABAD: At least five people were killed and 20 injured in a suicide blast at a mosque of an Islamic religious school known as the “university of jihad” in Nowshera district of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province on Friday.Among the dead were Maulana Hamid-ul-Haq Haqqani, head of Dar-ul-Uloom Haqqania school, the seminary in Nowshera’s…
