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…
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…
BENGALURU: Karnataka high court has permitted closure of a case under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act against a man who married the survivor after she turned 18.The verdict was passed recently by Justice M Nagaprasanna, who stressed that the court’s paramount importance was the welfare of the survivor and her child born…
HYDERABAD: A flourishing IT industry, coupled with a thick concentration of high net worth individuals (HNIs), has put Hyderabad on the hit list of cyber criminals, with Telangana accounting for the highest 15% share of malware attacks reported from across the country in 2023, a report says.A bevy of attackers worm their way into systems…
