Three coaches of the 22850 Secunderabad-Shalimar Superfast Express derailed near Nalpur Station in the South Eastern Railway division near Howrah, said railway officials on Saturday. The 3 coaches that derailed included one parcel van and 2 others. 10 buses were arranged for the affected passengers for their further journey. According to the Chief Public Relations…
AHMEDABAD: In an important judgment that could benefit 1.06 lakh women in Gujarat and over 24 lakh women across the country, the Gujarat high court has ruled that anganwadi workers (AWWs) and anganwadi helpers (AWHs) are entitled to be absorbed as “permanent employees holding civil posts” in the central or the state govts.Justice Nikhil Kariel…
NEW DELHI: Taking note of official figures that five trees are felled every hour in Delhi, Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a plea seeking a complete ban on cutting of any tree in the city without the court’s permission, which at present is applicable to only forest trees.Underscoring that something needs to be…
NEW DELHI: Delhi HC on Friday ordered Tihar jail authorities to provide necessary medical treatment to separatist Yasin Malik, who is serving a life sentence in a terror case and is on a hunger strike. Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta also issued notices to Centre, Delhi govt and Tihar jail authorities on a plea seeking Malik’s…
Isro chairman and secretary, department of space S Somanath (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Isro is working to make India’s own regional navigation system (NaVIC) easily accessible to civilians soon, as the accurate positioning system was till now confined to strategic use, said Pawan Goenka, chairman of space regulator and promoter INSPACe. He said “by…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to Karnataka govt and deputy chief minister D K Shivakumar, seeking their response on a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) plea challenging the state govt’s decision to withdraw its consent to the agency to investigate a disproportionate assets (DA) case against him.A bench of Justices Surya Kant…
BENGALURU: Police in Congress-governed Karnataka filed Friday an FIR against Bangalore South MP Tejasvi Surya over a post on his social media handle that claimed a farmer had died by suicide after Waqf Board allegedly confiscated his property. The post, based on a media report, sparked controversy and led to an investigation.The case came a…
GUWAHATI: A 31-year-old tribal mother of three was allegedly raped and burned to death in her village home in Manipur’s Jiribam district late Thursday by armed intruders who terrorised the settlement with indiscriminate gunfire, looting and arson that left 17 dwellings gutted.An FIR based on a complaint filed by the victim’s husband with Jiribam police…
Outgoing Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud (Pic credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: CJI Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud‘s quarter-century-long judicial career, marked by pathbreaking judgments and judicial reforms, ended on Friday with effusive praises sprinkled with superlatives from eminent to little-known lawyers during his farewell ceremony in the largest courtroom of Supreme Court that unprecedentedly…
NEW DELHI: Three judges on the seven-judge bench penned powerful dissents to the CJI D Y Chandrachud-authored majority opinion on behalf of four judges and were unanimous that the 1967 Azeez Basha judgment had correctly decided that Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) was not a minority educational institution.Justices Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta and Satish C Sharma…
