NEW DELHI: All India Trinamool Congress on Sunday criticised the BJP-led NDA government after videos of two women being partially buried alive in Madhya Pradesh‘s Rewa surfaced on social media. “Aayi NDA ki yeh sarkar; Laayi mahilaon pe teen guna atyaachar (Here comes NDA government; brings with it 3x torture on women),” said the Mamata…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed Uttar Pradesh government’s directive ordering all shopkeepers and eatery owners to display their names and other details in areas where the Kanwar Yatra is organized.In an interim order, the top court has ruled that Uttar Pradesh police cannot compel shopkeepers to display their names. Instead, they can…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP and leader of oppostion in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi on Monday targeted the Centre over NEET-UG paper leak issue, stating that the there is a “very serious problem” in the country’s education system. “The issue is that there are millions of students in the country who are extremely concerned about what…
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Monday lifted a long-standing ban on government employees participating in activities organized by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).The order stated, “It has been decided to remove the mention of Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh (R.S.S.S) from the impugned OMS dated 30.11.1966, 25.07.1970 and 28.10.1980.”According to Amit Malviya, the head of the…
NEW DELHI: A major terror attack on an Army picket in a remote village of Rajouri was thwarted on Monday, according to the PRO defence Jammu. The firefight is ongoing as security forces engage with the attackers.Authorities are closely monitoring the incident and have increased security measures in the region to prevent further escalation.Official sources…
BENGALURU: Within days of the jobs-for-locals controversy, Karnataka is in the midst of another wrangle over labour. Karnataka State IT/ITeS Employees Union (Kitu) said Saturday the Karnataka govt plans to increase the working hours in IT and ITES (IT-enabled services) sector to 14 hours a day, from the maximum 10 hours (including overtime) that’s allowed…
PUNE: Pune city police have decided to impound four-wheelers and two-wheelers driven by minors and keep the vehicles with them for a year to curb rise in cases of underage driving, reports Gitesh Shelke. The action will begin this week.The move comes following the May 19 accident in Kalyaninagar in which a minor boy driving…
NEW DELHI: Centre-wise results of NEET-UG released by NTA Saturday show that over 11,000 candidates scored zero or sub-zero marks. The lowest score in the exam, which awards negative marks for wrong answers, is -180, recorded at a centre in Bihar.While more than 2,250 candidates scored ‘absolute zero’, the marks obtained by more than 9,400…
NEW DELHI: Two Air India pilots, including a trainee, are paying for a serious oversight of the airline’s rostering department by getting grounded by Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). The trainee was to do supervised flying with a training captain but that did not happen due to a mix-up which led to the flight…
BENGALURU: Karnataka’s consumer forum has ordered a Bengaluru hospital and two doctors to pay a woman over Rs 5 lakh as compensation for a botched 2004 surgery during which a 3.2cm surgical needle was left behind in her spine, reports Vindhya Pabolu.The needle had caused 46-year-old Padmavathi extreme abdominal pain, backache and trauma for over…
