‘Attempting to avoid extradition’: Vanuatu PM orders cancellation of Lalit Modi’s passport | India News – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat on Monday directed the cancellation of the Vanuatu passport issued to fugitive businessman Lalit Modi after recent international media reports.“I have instructed the citizenship commission to immediately begin proceedings to cancel Lalit Modi’s Vanuatu passport,” Napat said. “While all standard background checks, including Interpol screenings, conducted during his…

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Clogged toilets? Air India flight forced to return to Chicago after 10 hours in air | India News – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: An Air India aircraft en route from Chicago to Delhi had to return to Chicago after flying for more than ten hours on Thursday due to technical issues.However, according to PTI sources, the flight had to return because numerous toilets were non-functional.According to flightradar24.com, the Boeing 777-337 ER aircraft returned to Chicago’s ORD…

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A FasTag for scholarships? Jhunjhunu pilot shows way in easing student pain | India News – The Times of India

GRANT A WISH: (From left) Piramal Foundation’s Shraddha Mishra with MNREGA worker Suman, her daughter Ronak and batchmate Kajal (in school uniform) That cold morning on December 6, there was a quiet buzz at Hameeri Kalan Senior Secondary School in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan. For the students, teachers, and parents gathered there, it wasn’t an ordinary day….

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NMC overrules SC’s and its own decision, rejects patient’s appeal | India News – The Times of India

Despite the National Medical Commission (NMC) deciding in September last year that not only doctors, but patients too can appeal to the Ethics and Medical Registration Board (EMRB) against decisions of state medical councils, on February 21 the EMRB rejected the appeal of a patient from Punjab.Incidentally, the EMRB is totally vacant since the tenure…

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Budget sitting resumes today amid delimitation, three-language debates | India News – The Times of India

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman (File photo) NEW DELHI: The budget session of Parliament resumes on Monday in the shadow of a spate of controversies along the ‘opposition vs government’ battleline, ranging from Trump’s comments on tariffs, duplicate voter identity card numbers, three-language policy and delimitation, amid indications that the non-budget issues may set off fireworks.Adding…

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40 years after rape, SC confirms verdict, says injury to private parts not must for conviction | India News – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: In an over 40-year-old incident of sexual assault of a schoolgirl by her tuition teacher, Supreme Court has confirmed his guilt and sentence while ruling that courts can record conviction even in absence of injury to the prosecutrix’s private parts, when other evidence corroborates rape.The accused had argued that rape charges could not…

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Uneasy calm in Manipur as tribal areas shut down over protester’s death | India News – The Times of India

Uneasy calm in Manipur as tribal areas shut down over protester’s death GUWAHTI: Manipur’s restive hills resonated with disquiet on Sunday amid the silence of an indefinite shutdown called by the Kuki-Zo Council in Kangpokpi, Churachandpur, Tengnoupal, Pherzawl and other tribal-dominant areas after weekend clashes with security personnel left a Kuki protester dead and over…

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Solar ingot, wafer units seek duty safeguard against Chinese dumping | India News – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Amid US president Donald Trump’s tariff war against Beijing, the call for duty protection against Chinese dumping is getting louder from domestic producers of polysilicon, ingot and wafers — making up the solar industry’s upstream segment that provides the building blocks for solar cells and panels.At a meeting with renewable energy ministry officials…

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Kerala CPM set to chart new path, eyes private participation for revival of loss-making PSUs | India News – The Times of India

KOLLAM: CPM’s state conference on Sunday unanimously re-elected M V Govindan as the party’s secretary of the Kerala unit. Unlike a decade ago, there was no factional dissent in the conference, with all members in the official panels getting elected unopposed.Only those in the good books of CM Pinarayi Vijayan, the de-facto leader of both…

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