NEW DELHI: India and Singapore Tuesday decided to step up their defence cooperation, including commencing co-development and co-production of military equipment, as well as extend their agreement on joint military training (Army) for the next five years.The sixth defence ministerial dialogue, led by Rajnath Singh and his counterpart Dr Ng Eng Hen here, also agreed…
NEW DELHI: After much suspense, Sebi chairperson Madhabi Buch is scheduled to appear before the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament on Thursday, a meeting that on agenda is slated to be a performance review of the top regulator, but which may result in fireworks over its functioning as well as about the recent allegations of…
CHENNAI: Contractual conditions cannot deny or offer less favourable maternity benefits to women employees, Madras high court has ruled, pointing out that Maternity Benefit Act would prevail over such contractual conditions.The first bench of chief justice K R Shriram and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy passed the order on Tuesday, on a plea moved by MRB Nurses’…
RUDRAPUR: In an unusual move, police in Uttarakhand’s Udham Singh Nagar district announced a reward of Rs 5 for the capture of three absconding criminals involved in a recent shootout incident. The symbolic gesture, instead of the usual bounties that go much higher, is intended to highlight “the diminished status of these notorious offenders in…
RANCHI/DUMKA: Exit of veteran BJP neta from Santhal Parganas, Lois Marandi, from the party and her aligning with governing JMM Monday has put the saffron camp in a tight spot in Jharkhand ahead of the assembly polls. BJP is seemingly struggling to spot a credible face to field in Barhait, to take on incumbent MLA…
GUWAHATI: An influential Meitei organisation has appealed to PM Modi to replace Manipur CM Biren Singh, citing his “inability to restore normalcy” after 17 months of ethnic violence in the state.“We hope that with a new leader at the helm, peace and normalcy can be reinstated in Manipur,” World Meetei Council said Monday in a…
PATNA: BJP Lok Sabha MP from Araria Pradeep Kumar Singh stirred a controversy on Tuesday, saying, “Araria mein rahna hai toh Hindu banna padega (If you want to live in Araria, you will have to become Hindu).” The governing ally JD(U) joined the opposition alliance in Bihar to condemn Singh. Araria is one of the…
AHMEDABAD: Some lawyers like to take up causes pro bono (free). Morris Christian prefers to act suo motu-on his own, in his own “court”.That was the case history of the Ahmedabad advocate until Monday when he was arrested on a local court’s directive for passing orders “like the chief court of the nation, like a…
Two local criminals of Canada, arrested on charges of killing Sikh businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik – a rival of slain terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar – have pleaded guilty in a Canadian court, confirming a gangland killing angle. Malik was an accused in the 1985 bombing of an Air India flight (named after Kanishka) that killed…
NAGPUR: Captain Reena Varughese was a rookie pilot in 2009 when Maoists shot down a helicopter ferrying senior police and polling officials in Laheri on the fringes of Abujmarh, the ‘People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army’ (PLGA) headquarters straddling Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh.Fifteen years later, Varughese knew what she was getting into when her 13-seater Dauphin-N Pawan Hans…
