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NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday came down heavily on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking to restrain the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) from referring to its players as the “Indian cricket team”, dismissing the plea as a “sheer wastage” of judicial time.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube…
NEW DELHI: The Army will roll out a new combined physical test (CPT) from April next year, under which even senior officers like Brigadiers, Major Generals and Lt Generals will have to prove fitness twice a year. CPT merges the existing battle physical efficiency test (BPET), for officers and soldiers up to the age of…
ADGP’s wife Amneet P Kumar said she would ‘get justice at any cost’ CHANDIGARH: IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, wife of senior Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar who allegedly shot himself dead on Tuesday, lodged a complaint with Chandigarh police on Wednesday night seeking an FIR against Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Singh Kapur and Rohtak…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the central government’s plea seeking victim- and society-centric guidelines for award of sentences, particularly death sentences, in place of the present system which is accused-centric and takes into consideration various mitigating factors relating to convicts.The central government also sought a directive for the introduction of a timeframe…
BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh deputy CM and health minister Rajendra Shukla on Wednesday visited the homes of two-year-old Nihal Dhurvey and four-year-old Kabir Yadav in Betul district, whose families said they died of renal failure after taking Coldrif cough syrup.TOI had reported how the boys’ fathers had been pleading with officials to acknowledge that their sons’…
BHOPAL: The first cases of children’s deaths in Madhya Pradesh after consuming cough syrup were reported on September 3, but it was only on September 16 that the administration recognised the severity of the situation and began a survey to check children’s health in Parasia block of Chhindwara district.The exercise gained pace two days later,…
Ladakh unrest (Picture credit: AP) SRINAGAR: The Leh Bar Association on Wednesday demanded Rs 1-crore compensation each for the families of four people killed in the September 24 firing in Leh and called for an impartial judicial inquiry headed by a retired Supreme Court judge into the incident.“All four victims belonged to poor families. Three…
File photo (Picture credit: PTI) SRINAGAR: The Army has launched a massive search operation to trace two soldiers who went missing in a forested area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on October 6. Officials lost contact with the soldiers — part of a team on patrol duty in the woods of Ahlan Gadol, Kokernag —…
BHOPAL/NAGPUR: The cough syrup tragedy spread beyond MP’s Chhindwara on Wednesday, with the state confirming three deaths from neighbouring Betul and Pandhurna districts. The toll rose to 21, with another death in Chhindwara, even as CM Mohan Yadav admitted to lapses, saying, “Chook se dukh hota hai”. Chhindwara has reported 18 deaths, while five kids…
SRINAGAR: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday accused Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah of failing to protect land and dignity of the people by sitting idle on Land Grant Rules, 2022, which has barred the renewal of the leases of hotels and other institutions, risking their eviction and government takeover.She said her party…
