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The government has initiated the process of overhauling the legal framework governing social security and pension benefits for coal workers, with the coal ministry proposing a new law to replace the 77-year-old Coal Mines Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1948.According to the ministry, the proposed Coal Mines Employees’ Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill,…
Muneeba Ali’s run-out against India (Screengrab) The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has confirmed that the third umpire’s decision to declare Pakistan‘s Muneeba Ali run out during their 88-run defeat to India in the Women’s World Cup was correct and followed the Laws of Cricket.During Pakistan’s chase of 248, Muneeba faced a delivery from Kranti Gaud…
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai. (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: In times when the line between power and law is often blurred, Chief Justice of India B R Gavai reminded an audience in Mauritius that the Indian republic rests not on the “rule of the bulldozer” but on the rule of law….
Uttar Pradesh opposition leader Mata Prasad Pandey was barred from visiting Bareilly by police NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh Assembly leader of opposition and SP MLA Mata Prasad Pandey on Saturday said that police had barred him and a Samajwadi Party delegation from visiting Bareilly, where tensions have been high following the recent “I Love Mohammad”…
NEW DELHI: Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) urged on Saturday Centre and state govts to stay alert against possible violence during nationwide protests announced by All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) and other Muslim bodies against Waqf Amendment Act.VHP said it was “strange” that while challenging the law in court, the organisations were simultaneously launching…
Abhishesk Sharma and Dasun Shanaka (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) TimesofIndia.com in Dubai: Sri Lanka head coach Sanath Jayasuriya praised Abhishek Sharma and Pathum Nissanka, while questioning the “grey areas” in cricket after a controversial Super Over incident in the last Super Four match of the Asia Cup.“Abhishek Sharma is playing his natural game, and they have…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has said that criminal law cannot become a platform for initiation of vindictive proceedings to settle personal scores and vendettas, and derided the increasing resort to lodging of FIRs to settle civil disputes.While quashing an FIR lodged more than two decades ago for the offence of cheating in a land transaction…
United States President Donald Trump called out Sharia law being adopted in Europe and slammed the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, at the United Nations. Addressing the United Nations General Assembly’s 80th session, Trump accused Sadiq Khan of seeking to impose Sharia law in the city. “I look at London, where you have a terrible…
Chief justice of India BR Gavai was seen enjoying a camel cart ride with union law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on Saturday in Bikaner.A video, obtained from a third-party source and shared by PTI, shows the two sitting and chatting on the camel cart during night time. Police can also be seen deployed in the…
Masked ICE agents in action (File photo/AP) California governor Gavin Newsom on Saturday signed a law prohibiting most law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from covering their faces while conducting official business. The state is the first in the US to enact such a ban, a direct response to the recent immigration raids in…
