NEW DELHI: When 60-year-old Venkata Subramani Mohana took oath on Tuesday as a judge of the Supreme Court, she became part of a small group of 12 women judges among a total of 289 who have been judges of the SC in its over 76-year journey. Justice Mohana is the second advocate to be elevated…
NEW DELHI: India’s battle against lifestyle diseases is intensifying, with the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS-6) revealing a sharp rise in both obesity and high blood sugar levels among adults. Nearly one in three women and more than one in four men are now overweight or obese. The share of adults with elevated blood…
NEW DELHI: IndiGo on Tuesday said it will temporarily discontinue its wide-body flight operations to and from Manchester from Aug 31, citing longer flight routes due to airspace restrictions amid the Iran conflict, rising aviation turbine fuel (ATF) costs, and forex volatility.The budget airline will return one of the six Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft it…
NEW DELHI: CJI Surya Kant on Tuesday administered oath to five new Supreme Court judges — Justices Sheel Nagu, Sree Chandrashekhar, Sanjeev Sachdeva, Arun Palli and V S Mohana — taking the working strength of SC judges to a record 37 with one vacancy.The entire process — involving the recommendation of names by the five-member…
NEW DELHI: Several premises of industrialist Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Ltd in Delhi, Mumbai and Udaipur were on Monday searched by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a suspected FEMA violation case involving transactions related to brand royalty between the UK-based Vedanta Resources and its Indian subsidiary Vedanta Ltd.The enforcement agency officials carried out a survey, searching for…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has set aside a home ministry order rejecting the voluntary retirement request of Maharashtra cadre IPS officer Abdur Rahman, who faced various charges, including torturing a person in 2014, contracting a second marriage without the consent of his first wife in 2016 and giving a speech in violation of rules in…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has closed a coal block allocation case registered by CBI more than a decade ago against Hindalco Industries and discharged the company and its former president and CEO S K Tamotia and former general manager (Corporate Affairs) PRS Mani, reports Koushiki Saha.Special judge (PC Act) Dheeraj Mor held that prima…
New Delhi: CERT-In, the govt-run agency tasked with handling cyber threats, has said it first flagged vulnerabilities in CBSE-related domains on Feb 26 and its emergency assessment of one portal revealed the platform was not fit for hosting in-production environment, the operational stage of a software app, as a parliamentary panel quizzed officials.Sarthak Sidhant, a…
Who is LowTierGod? Dale Wilson turns heads with rare court triumph amid alleged doxxing dispute (Image via Getty) Dale Wilson, better known online as LowTierGod, is making headlines for something very different from gaming this week. The Twitch streamer and content creator reportedly represented himself in a California family court hearing and won. According to…
NEW DELHI: Deliberating on the right of an accused to bail, particularly in serious offences, Supreme Court Tuesday said personal liberty would have to take back seat if it is pitted against India’s sovereignty, and pointed out a lack of uniform application of prolonged incarceration as grounds for bail has resulted in similarly situated persons…