Category: Events

Bribe demand unproven, Rs 20 note no proof: SC acquits 2 NEW DELHI: Thirty years after they were accused of taking a bribe of Rs 20 to issue an income certificate, Supreme Court has acquitted two govt employees in a 1996 corruption case in which they were convicted and sentenced to one year’s imprisonment by...

Crew of 10 includes six Indian nationals; vessel was carrying arms and security equipment Six Indians were among the 10-member crew of a Cameroon-flagged cargo ship hijacked by pirates off Somalia’s Puntland coast earlier this week, news agency AP reported citing a Somali official on Thursday.The M/V LUTUF was seized on Monday about 3.5 nautical...

US-Iran war hits Indian carriers harder as international passenger traffic falls 26% NEW DELHI: The US-Iran war’s impact on international air travel globally has, from an Indian perspective, hit homegrown carriers harder than foreign ones.While people flying in and out of India fell 10.5% to 1.7 crore during April-June, the traditional peak summer quarter, Indian...

Sugar imports open after decade as govt moves to check price surge NEW DELHI: Govt Thursday allowed the import of 10 lakh tonnes of raw sugar, the first such move in a decade, as it stared at a possible decline of at least 20% in the opening stock of the sweetener.The move came soon after...

SC asks CBSE to consider one-year reprieve on 3-language policy; bench debates whether English is ‘indigenous’ NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday asked Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to consider a reprieve to Class VI students by deferring implementation of the three-language policy to next year, by which time it should shore up infrastructure and...

SC retains broad definition of ‘industry’ NEW DELHI: A nine-judge Supreme Court bench on Thursday settled a decades-old debate over the appropriateness of its 1978 ruling giving an expansive definition to “industry” to protect workmen against arbitrary retrenchment, and said it would apply to all organisations, including govt public works agencies, temples, hospitals and NGOs,...

Former SC judge R Subhash Reddy to head 5-member panel to probe Jantar Mantar clashes NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday appointed a five-member high-powered enquiry committee (HPEC) led by former SC judge R Subhash Reddy to probe alleged police excesses on students marching to Parliament on July 20 during the CJP-led protest against NEET leak,...

US ambassador Sergio Gor in Leh SRINAGAR: A day after meeting Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah in Srinagar, US Ambassador to India, Sergio Gor, arrived in Ladakh Thursday on his maiden visit to the Union Territory, where he went sightseeing and rafting. There were also reports that he was likely to meet the...

Heavy rains trigger landslides in Kheri village, residents say several houses damaged (Image: ANI) JAMMU: Nearly a dozen families have been forced to take shelter in tents after subsidence damaged several houses and sparked panic in Kheri village on the outskirts of Jammu city.“It has become scary to live in a structure on the verge...

Earthquake in Peru An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck central Peru on Thursday, news agency Reuters reported citing the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.The quake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), according to GFZ.There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.More details awaited