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Historic 100% attendance at Niti meet, DKS breaks Karnataka boycott

From Congress-governed Kerala, Kartanakta, Himachal Pradesh and Telangana to AAP-governed Punjab, CMs cutting across party lines were present at the meeting where NDA had its strongest ever presence. The participation of Karnataka’s new CM D K Shivakumar marked a significant shift in the state’s approach, ending a boycott by the previous Congress administration.

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Entire NE, barring one or two states, may be out of AFSPA by next year: Shah

Speaking at the signing of a tripartite memorandum of understanding (MoU) among the Centre, govt of Assam and govt of Nagaland for oil and mineral exploration along the Assam-Nagaland border, Shah said that in PM Narendra Modi’s efforts to establish lasting peace and push development in the north-east, a dozen peace pacts had been signed

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Adopt ‘targeted’ delimitation for 170 Lok Sabha seats: Economic Advisory Council to PM Modi

According to the model proposed, Kerala and Tamil Nadu will account for 22 of the 59 proposed two-way splits. In cases of three-way splits, the lion’s share will be in UP (17), followed by Maharashtra (12), Bihar (10), and Bengal (10). As a result, the number of seats in southern states is expected to rise

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TMC crisis deepens as third MP resigns from Rajya Sabha & party

The letter, which has been submitted by Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar in her capacity as “chief whip”, has given Bengal assembly Speaker’s recognition of Ritabrata Banerjee-led TMC rebels, who are also over two-third of the party MLAs, as an example, sources confirmed on a day when the party suffered another setback as its RS member Prakash

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ED to appeal HC order quashing NewsClick case

​​Sources in ED said that this goes against their understanding that when an investigation is under way in a PMLA case, a court cannot quash a related predicate offence till the probe is concluded. They also said that the HC judge has either completely overlooked or not fully addressed ED’s crucial contentions despite having kept

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Fraudsters creating deepfakes to bypass facial authentication: I4C

Sharing this latest modus operandi in a public advisory on Wednesday, Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) said scammers were using facial recordings obtained through deceptive video calls, fake online job interviews or social engineering tactics to generate a realistic digital replica capable of imitating facial movements, expressions, blinking pattern and voice.

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Staff dismissal only for grave violations like corruption: SC

A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and N K Singh said it was not making light of the importance of discipline at the workplace, but in the absence of “corruption, illegal gratification, moral turpitude, misappropriation of funds, proved losses to employer, public scandal or conduct bringing the organisation to disrepute”, an employee could not be

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‘Homemakers are nation builders’: For payout, SC pegs housewife ‘income’ at Rs 30,000 a month

A Supreme Court bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and N K Singh said women were largely responsible for the preparation of human capital on which the dreams of being the world’s largest economy, among other things, rested. The bench said if the compensation was not paid within three months, the interest rate would increase to

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NMC flipflops, puts onus of patient appeals on health ministry

When the ministry was asked to intervene on behalf of patients to allow appeals before NMC, the ministry stated the commission was the apex statutory body constituted under the 2019 Act to regulate medical education and the profession. “All matters relating to framing, amendment, and implementation of medical education regulations fall within the domain of

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