SC: Absorbing unqualified pvt school teachers will ruin students NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday disapproved Assam’s Congress-era law that allowed a large number of teachers engaged in private schools and charitable educational institutions to be appointed/absorbed in govt employment and barred the present govt from appointing or absorbing any person as a teacher in a … Read more
BJP demands Punjab CM’s resignation over farmer’s suicide NEW DELHI: BJP alleged Tuesday that AAP was like a “thug gang” and demanded the resignation of CM Bhagwant Mann after a man died by suicide, allegedly following pressure from AAP functionaries to apologise for questioning minister Harpal Singh Cheema over the drug menace in his village.BJP … Read more
NEW DELHI: The NIA has not invoked the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in its chargesheet against six Ukrainian nationals and a US citizen in a case registered under the anti-terror law in April. The chargesheet instead invokes sections 21 and 23 of the Immigration and Foreigners Act, 2025.The chargesheet said the accused had valid … Read more
Strategic autonomy in motion as India hosts Brics summit NEW DELHI: India will host the annual Brics summit on Sept 12-13 at Bharat Mandapam, returning to the venue where it held the G20 summit in 2023. That gathering is remembered for the inclusion of the African Union in G20, marking a major step in efforts … Read more
India-China hold 1st Corps Commander talks in eastern sector; ties improving NEW DELHI: The first-ever Corps Commander–level meeting between India and China in the eastern sector was a two-day engagement, marking a milestone in bilateral efforts to maintain peace along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).“The first highest military Corps Commander–level flag meeting took place … Read more
SRINAGAR: MF Husain’s horses meant power. Flat, bold, Cubist, built for scale like the Bollywood billboards he once painted in Mumbai. Masood Hussain’s horse is painted on Pashmina and dyed in the wool — carrying the earliest Kashmiri poetry, passed down orally for 600 years before anyone wrote it down.This is a sharp turn from … Read more
NCPCR summons Meta India chief (representative image) NEW DELHI: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has summoned Meta India’s managing director and country head to appear before it on Wednesday over advertisements allegedly linked to child sexual exploitation and abuse material (CSEAM) on Instagram.The commission took suo motu cognisance of a BBC … Read more
Rakesh Mehta Former Delhi Chief Secretary NEW DELHI: Former Delhi chief secretary Rakesh Mehta, who served during chief minister Sheila Dikshit’s tenure, allegedly died by suicide at his residence in Noida, officials said on Tuesday.Mehta, 74, a 1975-batch IAS officer, was found hanging from a ceiling fan at his Sector 82 residence on September 6, … Read more
Delhi Govt cracks whip, 5 MCD officials suspended after Satya Niketan building collapse. Photo credit: ANI NEW DELHI: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has demolished 24 properties and sealed seven illegal structures across the capital following the building collapse in south Delhi’s Satya Niketan that killed seven people.According to the MCD data, quoted by … Read more
File photo: A drone view of the dry riverbed as Cauvery water flow remains low at Mukkombu Dam, in Tiruchirappalli (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: The Karnataka government is seriously considering approaching the Supreme Court against the direction to release 6,000 cusecs of Cauvery river water daily to Tamil Nadu, state water resources minister N … Read more