New Delhi: You can’t sue a college for not giving you a ‘placement’. Education isn’t a commodity to be bought or sold or with ‘special offers’. Students are not consumers. A youth’s plea against an institute for allegedly not providing him with an internship or job as promised at the time of admission, has been […]
New Delhi, Jan 15 (PTI) A three-member committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet tomorrow to decide on the chief of the country’s premier probe agency CBI. The post of CBI director is lying vacant for over one month following Anil Sinha’s retirement on December 2. At present, Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana is […]
New Delhi: Muslim clerics have no authority to issue divorce certificates, a High Court in India has ruled, invalidating such decrees already issued by a top cleric in Tamil Nadu state in southern India (Jan 13). This is in line with, a 1997 Supreme Court judgment ruled that church court rulings on marriage will have […]
Rohtak: “Cashless Transactions” appeared to be PM Narendra Modi’s main theme as he addressed the National Youth Festival. The delegates also were made to take an ‘oath’ to go cashless! The Festival Theme this year is ‘Digital Yuva Bharat’. Over 5,000 youths from across the country gathered here as the National Youth Festival began t […]
Gandhinagar (Gujarat): Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his government is focused on development of railways. And he also indicated that railway stations may be remodelled into high-rise commercial buildings as well. “My government has given priority to railways… it should expand, it should be developed, get modernised and it should bring a qualitative change in […]
Petrol pump owners late on Jan 8 night deferred till January 13 their decision to not accept credit and debit card payments for fuel sales after banks put off the move to levy the transaction (MDR) charge. To promote cash-less transactions, the government had waived the Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on fuel purchase post demonetisation […]
Bombay (Mumbai) Sixty six year old veteran actor Om Puri, who gave countless memorable performances in movies of diverse genres, died at his home this morning after a massive heart attack (6 Jan). “He passed away this morning due to a massive heart attack at his residence in suburban Andheri. It’s shocking,” a family source […]
New Delhi: Is all this shoving the country towards a cashless economy really safe? That’s the question thrown up by a Parliamentary Standing Committee. Is data transfer on these new ‘pockets’ and ‘wallets applications really safe, or will new users find that their bank accounts are broken into by hackers? Do we have proper laws […]
New Delhi: Isn’t a man who has sex with his ‘under 18’ wife guilty of statutory rape? POSCO says yes, the Indian Penal Code says ‘no’. The Supreme Court asks the government to step up to the slate and make its position clear! Can sex with wife, who is above 15 and below 18 years […]
Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu announced a Rs 100-crore reward for the first Nobel laureate to emerge from his state (January 4). The money is 14 times the Nobel Prize value! He said this while inaugurating the Children’s Science Congress. The catch is that you would have to grow up to be an ‘Andhra […]
The Election Commission will deploy about 400 expenditure observers, drawn from the IRS and other central services, to check use of black money and other illegal inducements in the Assembly polls in five states, says a PTI report (Jan 4). 200 observers will be drawn from the Income Tax department stream of the Indian Revenue […]
Pune: Noted Marathi playwright and humorist late Ram Ganesh Gadkari’s statue installed in a garden here was vandalised in the early hours today( Jan 3) by a pro-Maratha group which alleged that Chhatrapati Shivaji’s son was projected in ‘poor light’ in one of Gadkari’s plays. Incidentally, Gadkari died 98 years ago on the 23rd of […]
