NEW DELHI: The govt has received over 6.2 lakh applications under the PM Internship Scheme for around 1.3 lakh opportunities, Lok Sabha was informed on Monday.After announcing the scheme in the last budget, the govt launched its pilot project in Oct. The first set of letters were to be handed over this week, but the…
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…
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…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday refused to relax restrictions imposed under the Graded Action Response Plan (Grap) Stage 4 to check air pollution in Delhi and indicated that conditions would be relaxed only when pollution levels continue to show a downward trend.A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih took exception…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday decided to examine a plea seeking recall of its Sept 26 bail order to DMK‘s Senthil Balaji on the ground that witnesses may not feel free to depose against a cabinet minister. Balaji was granted bail in a money laundering case linked to a cash-for-jobs scam. In what can…
NEW DELHI: The US State Department has authorised a potential sale of equipment and ongoing support for MH-60R Seahawk helicopters to India, valued at approximately $1.17 billion, according to a statement from the Pentagon accessed by Reuters on Monday. Lockheed Martin has been named as the primary contractor for the deal.( More details awaited) Source…
NEW DELHI: Is the Election Commission powerless to disqualify a foreign national, who has got elected as a gram panchayat Mukhiya, despite unimpeachable evidence about his nationality?This question of law was raised by Bihar state election commission before the SC on Monday. A Nepalese citizen had written to the Nepal govt to cancel his citizenship….
