‘Shouldn’t govt give employment?’ SC stays HC order on jobs for Karur victims’ kin

Spread the love       Supreme Court’s order provided interim relief to the Tamil Nadu government NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a Madras High Court order that had struck down the Tamil Nadu government’s decision to provide government jobs to eligible relatives of those who died in the Karur stampede last year.A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and K...

‘You can’t play forever’: Hayden’s blunt message on Rohit Sharma’s future

Spread the love       India’s Rohit Sharma (ANI Photo) Rohit Sharma’s place in India’s plans for the 2027 ODI World Cup continues to generate debate, but former Australia opener Matthew Hayden believes the decision over how long the veteran batter wants to continue will ultimately rest with Rohit himself.Rohit, now retired from Test and T20I cricket, is exclusively playing ODIs for...

‘Uncalled for’: CJI pulls up Bar Council of India over threat of action against NALSAR students

Spread the love       CJI Surya Kant (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday expressed “strong disapproval” of the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) now-revoked order barring the enrolment of 2026 graduates of Hyderabad’s NALSAR University of Law as advocates after a section of students objected to the university inviting Chief Justice of India Surya Kant as the chief...

PfA@30: Taking the animal kingdom under their wing

Spread the love      Prosthetics for peacocks, electro acupuncture for snakes and implants for the de-feathered may seem far-fetched, but are all in a day’s work for the good folk at Bengaluru’s People For Animals Wildlife Hospital (PfA). PfA has been working behind the scenes in Bengaluru for the past 30 years, quietly rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing, furred and feathered friends in...

In Massachusetts, obsolete dam demolition begins after 14-year effort

Spread the love       Duxbury, MassachusettsRepresentative image For more than a century, a small concrete dam stood in the way of a river’s natural flow. Built to serve industries that no longer exist, the Temple Street Dam in Duxbury, Massachusetts, had long outlived its purpose. It blocked fish from reaching their spawning grounds, trapped sediment, created a maintenance burden for the...

Why some Anthropic investors call CEO more of a religious leader than a CEO

Spread the love       Somebody in the room had a perfectly reasonable idea. Anthropic was mid-way through a historic run, public sentiment around AI was in the gutter, and one director suggested the fix that Microsoft and Facebook reached for during their own boom years—a charm offensive, heavy on drug discovery and cures for hard diseases. Dario Amodei said no. That...

Fugitive drug kingpin Virender Singh Basoya extradited from UAE

Spread the love       India’s Narcotics Control Bureau has secured the extradition of Virender Singh Basoya from the UAE. NEW DELHI: In a major breakthrough in the crackdown on international drug networks, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has secured the return of fugitive drug kingpin Virender Singh Basoya from the United Arab Emirates (UAE).Basoya, accused of orchestrating a massive multi-crore cocaine...

Rohit Sharma could coach Mumbai Indians? Ashwin makes bold prediction

Spread the love       Mumbai Indians’ Rohit Sharma (PTI Photo) Former India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin believes Rohit Sharma could have a significant role to play in coaching or mentoring after his playing career comes to an end, with the former India spinner urging Mumbai Indians to bring their long-time captain into the franchise setup as soon as he decides to retire.Indian...

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Harsimrat Badal ‘deeply touched’ by PM Modi’s ‘kind gesture’ after attack on Sukhbir Badal

Spread the love       Sukhbir Badal was attacked at a gurudwara in Maharashtra’s Nanded NEW DELHI: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Friday said she was “deeply touched” by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “kind gesture” of reaching out to enquire about the health of her husband and party chief, Sukhbir Singh Badal, who was attacked at a gurdwara...

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