NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday declined to stay the declaration of results of Rajya Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh, but agreed to hear on Friday Congress candidate Meenakshi Natarajan’s plea challenging rejection of her candidature for non-disclosure of a pending criminal case against her.It was a desperate attempt by senior advocate A M Singhvi,…
NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police are preparing to appeal against the Delhi high court’s judgment quashing EOW’s case against news portal NewsClick and its promoter Prabir Purkayastha.EOW’s case was the basis for ED’s probe into money laundering allegations against the portal. While quashing the FIR, Justice Neena…
NEW DELHI: Most teenagers fresh out of Class XII are still picking a college. Nisarga Adhikary, all of 19, has instead landed a job at one of India’s top engineering colleges.Adhikary, who cleared his board exams only this year, has been hired by IIT Kanpur as an Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) and threat intelligence engineer at…
National Medical Commission (NMC) continues its flipflop over whether patients and their families should be allowed to file appeals before it.The commission decided in Sept 2024 that its ethics board would entertain all appeals, including those filed by non-medicos, and confirmed this decision in Dec 2025. Five months later, in May, the ethics board claimed…
Calling housewives “nation builders”, Supreme Court for the first time said in case of a homemaker’s death in an accident, the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal will calculate the compensation to be paid to her family by assuming her monthly income to be at least Rs 30,000.Pained by the 25-year delay, 22 of which were because…
Rajya Sabha contests in Maharashtra, MP, Karnataka and Rajasthan ended without a vote on Thursday. NCP’s Rajendra Jain was elected in the bypoll to the seat vacated by deputy CM Sunetra Pawar in the state (), while BJP swept 3 seats in MP. Three Congress candidates and one BJP neta were elected in Karnataka, and…
NEW DELHI: Nearly 67% — or two out of every three people killed on Indian roads in 2024 — were two-wheeler riders or pedestrians, according to the latest report published by the road transport ministry on Thursday. In absolute numbers, a total of 1.28 lakh two-wheeler riders and pedestrians lost their lives in road crashes.This…
In a risky operation on the high seas, Indian Navy safely disposed of an unexploded warhead recovered from the fuel storage compartment of a missile-hit crude oil tanker 50 nautical miles off the Kochi coast.The operation was conducted when the vessel was sailing to Kochi from UAE’s Fujairah, the defence ministry said on Thursday.The Navy…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the chief ministers of Karnataka, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the 11th Niti Aayog Governing Council Meet, in New Delhi.The leaders held talks on a range of topics, including state affairs. Some of them also congratulated…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Thursday said the entire northeast region, barring one or two states, may be out of purview of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act by next year.Speaking at the signing of a tripartite memorandum of understanding (MoU) among the Centre, Govt of Assam and Govt of Nagaland for oil…