NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party state president Virendraa Sachdeva on Saturday hinted at rolling out the Mahila Samriddhi Yojna in Delhi on women’s day.When asked about the implementation of the scheme under which Rs 2,500 per month is to be given to eligible women in Delhi, Sachdeva said that things will become clear soon.“March 8…
NEW DELHI: Delhi’s Patiala House court accepted Delhi Police‘s application to withdraw a case against ex-JNU student leader Shehla Rashid Shora for her tweets accusing the Indian Army of entering houses and “torturing” locals in Kashmir.Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Anuj Kumar Singh passed the order on February 27 on an application moved by the prosecution, which…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has ruled that a borrower cannot be classified as a “consumer” under the Consumer Protection Act if the loan was taken for a profit-generating exercise. The verdict came as the top court set aside an order by the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), which had directed the Central Bank…
NEW DELHI: India’s first three clinics providing services to the transgender community were forced to shutdown after the United States decided to stop funding projects under from the US Agency for International Development (USAID). The move has affected over 5,000 beneficiaries, Reuters reported quoting sources.Reacting to the news of the closure of first of the…
NEW DELHI: The BJP is set to choose a new national president in March, after the completion of elections within party’s state units. Originally planned for January, the selection process was postponed due to Delhi assembly polls and pending polls in several state units.As per the BJP’s constitution, at least 50% of state units must…
NEW DELHI: All citizens born after October 1, 2023 – the day the amended Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 2023, came into effect – will now be required to mandatorily attach their birth certificate as proof of date of birth while applying for a passport.However, those born before this cutoff date can still submit…
NEW DELHI: The past month was the warmest Feb in India since record keeping commenced in the country in 1901 and the upcoming hot weather season (March-May) is likely to be warmer than normal in most parts of the country with a high number of heatwave days during the period, the IMD said on Friday.Both…
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…
