Tihar jail NEW DELHI: “Pay up and meet inmate at Tihar Jail” may sound unusual, but relatives of prisoners were reportedly being made to pay for such meetings that are legally free. The racket was exposed after an inmate alerted the jail, triggering the transfer of multiple data entry operators. Delhi Headlines Today — The...
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Jharkhand: Man carries baby’s body in bag; takes bus 70km home
JAMSHEDPUR: Fog hung low over the road as a young father stepped out of a govt hospital in Jharkhand’s Chaibasa with nothing left to save. Inside a plastic grocery bag pressed close to his chest lay the body of his four-month-old son. No ambulance was ready. No money remained. So he turned towards a public...
Epstein files: Democrats claim DOJ deleted photo of Trump – What happened to file 468?
Democrats have accused the Justice Department of removing a photograph of US President Donald Trump from the newly released Jeffrey Epstein files. The image is labelled as file 468 and reportedly shows Trump with a woman in revealing clothes. Also, at least 16 files disappeared from the DOJ webpage without any plausible explanation.Democrats on the...
4th elephant death on rail tracks this year, toll rises to 94 since 2019
NEW DELHI: The death of at least seven elephants after being hit by a high-speed passenger train in Assam on Saturday has taken the toll of such fatalities since 2019-20 to 94. This was the fourth such accident this year. The last two accidents were reported from Jalpaiguri in West Bengal, sources said, adding that...
Will new Act aid India’s nuclear development? | Explained
The story so far: Parliament has brought into force the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Act which repeals legislation that governs nuclear activity — the Atomic Energy Act, 1962, and Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage (CLND) Act, 2010. Why is SHANTI significant? SHANTI encourages private companies to participate and...
Will SHANTI Act aid India’s nuclear development? | Explained
The story so far: Parliament has brought into force the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Act, which repeals previous legislation that governs nuclear activity: the Atomic Energy Act 1962 and the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage (CLND) Act 2010. Why is SHANTI significant? SHANTI encourages private companies to participate...
CAG: Railways lags in non-fare earnings, recovery of dues
Image: IANS NEW DELHI: Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), in recent reports, flagged how railways failed to boost its non-fare revenue despite holding vast stretches of vacant land and how dues amounting to Rs 4,087 crore from 269 private siding owners remained unrecovered by different zones till March 2023, pointing to weak monitoring and enforcement...
With ‘Rishi Bankim babu’, PM Modi defuses ‘Bankim da’ row in West Bengal
File photo KOLKATA: PM Narendra Modi used a fog-forced virtual rally in Bengal Saturday to pursue two parallel damage-control efforts – shoring up support among Matua voters unsettled by an electoral roll revision and repairing political fallout from his recent “Bankim da” reference in Parliament.PM Modi was to address a public meeting at Taherpur in...
Congress nearly joined conspiracy to make Assam part of East Pakistan: PM Modi
GUWAHATI: PM Modi transformed his Guwahati rally on Saturday into a fierce political offensive against Congress, accusing it of “committing a sin” by preparing to join hands with the Muslim League and the British in a pre-Independence conspiracy to make Assam a part of what would later become “East Pakistan”.Modi said Congress had conspired to...
Airbus plans cloud shift: Company moves away from AWS, Google, Microsoft
Europe’s biggest aerospace company Airbus reportedly wants to move away from two of the biggest American technology companies — Google and Microsoft. According to a report in Register, Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud. The aerospace manufacturer uses products and services of Google...
