Spread the love       File photo: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant CHANDIGARH: In a significant push for modernising the country’s prison ecosystem, CJI Surya Kant has advocated bold, tech-integrated reforms, ranging from digital-skills training to UK-style inmate-monitoring systems, aimed at transforming prisons from punitive spaces into “engines of reintegration”.Highlighting the need to align prison training with the “economy of tomorrow”,...

Spread the love       Goa nightclub fire tragedy PANAJI: Fifteen minutes. That’s all it took for Bhavana Joshi to lose her husband and three sisters inside a nightclub that was supposed to crown a holiday in Goa with music and laughter for the family of five from Ghaziabad and Delhi. Flames tore through the club moments after they had stepped into...

Spread the love       Representative image NEW DELHI: A DTC bus driver was dragged from his vehicle and beaten to death allegedly by a group of wedding guests in Aman Vihar late Saturday in a brutal burst of road rage. Police have arrested one of the suspects, Rahul, while three are on the run. A video on social media shows the...

Spread the love       IndiGo fiasco NEW DELHI: Did IndiGo “waste time” till late October lobbying DGCA to either get exemption from certain rules in the new flight duty time limitation (FDTL) norms or getting its implementation deferred beyond the November 1 deadline, instead of preparing for it?The four-member government panel probing the IndiGo’s flight crisis will examine this, along with...

Spread the love       Goa fire tragedy (Picture credit: PTI) PANAJI: Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at northern Goa’s Arpora located approximately 16km from Panaji, was constructed on a salt pan with inadequate safety measures, highlighting significant infrastructure concerns following a Saturday night fire incident that claimed 25 lives.The establishment, marketed as Goa’s first island club, faces scrutiny over its safety...

Spread the love       Charred remains of the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub after a fire breaks out, claiming the lives of 25 people, in Arpora. (Picture credit: ANI) PANAJI: The Birch by Romeo Lane had been dancing with danger for long.The inferno was the result of a critical failure in “fire prevention engineering, regulatory compliance, and life safety preparedness” by...

Spread the love       Representative image MUMBAI: The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, long seen as a launchpad for India’s brightest startups, has quietly crossed an even more telling milestone. It incorporated a company of its own. This is not an incubated spinoff or a faculty-seeded venture, but an organisation owned and anchored by IIT Bombay itself.On Nov 7, 2025, BharatGen...

Spread the love       File photo: Congress MP Manish Tewari (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Congress MP Manish Tewari has introduced a private member’s bill in Lok Sabha that seeks to allow parliamentarians to take an independent line in voting on bills and motions other than those affecting govt’s stability. This he sees as a way of promoting good lawmaking and...

Spread the love       File photo: US under secretary of state for political affairs Allison Hooker NEW DELHI: US under secretary of state for political affairs Allison Hooker will visit New Delhi and Bengaluru from December 7 to 11, marking another step forward, as the US embassy here said, in advancing President Donald Trump’s priorities for a strong US-India partnership and...

Spread the love       File photo: Defense minister Rajnath Singh (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Inaugurating 125 border infrastructure projects, including the key Shyok tunnel in Ladakh, defence minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said they will not only ensure faster mobility of troops & weapons, but also boost tourism, employment & stronger faith in democracy among people living in remote regions.The...