NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday took strong exception to bureaucrats’ wives enjoying posts in societies functioning within the administrative jurisdictions of their husbands and said such practices, a product of colonial mindset, must be forthwith discarded.What irked a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan was the vindictive action indirectly taken by the…
Greg Chappell. (File Pic – AFP Photo) NEW DELHI: Former Australian cricketer Greg Chappell has commended India’s dominance in world cricket, emphasising the pivotal role of their robust domestic cricket system. He credits the structured framework for nurturing young talents like Yashasvi Jaiswal, who represent the bright future of Indian cricket.Jaiswal’s brilliance was on full…
Adani Group founder-chairman Gautam Adani, his nephew and Adani Green Energy’s executive director Sagar Adani, and others are charged with executing a $265m bribery scheme linked to the business of Adani Green Energy. MUMBAI: French oil major TotalEnergies has announced suspension of additional investments in Adani Group companies pending the resolution of US bribery allegations…
MUMBAI: The International Cricket Council will hold an emergent meeting of its board on Tuesday to take a final call and resolve the deadlock around the 2025 Champions Trophy in February-March next year in Pakistan. The meeting, during which a final verdict on the fate of the tournament is likely to be given, will be…
New York City on Monday issued its first drought warning in 22 years after months of little rain — and will restart the flow of drinking water from an out-of-service aqueduct as supplies run low. Dry conditions across the Northeast have been blamed for hundreds of brush fires. They had already prompted New York City…
Representational (AP Photo) Schools in Delhi, Noida, Faridabad shift to online mode: Amid ‘severe plus’ air pollution levels in Delhi, the Supreme Court on Monday directed Delhi and NCR states – Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, and Punjab to enforce Stage IV of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) without delay. It urged immediate action on…
NEW DELHI: Within hours of passing an order requesting the President to decide Beant Singh murder convict Balwant Singh Rajoana‘s mercy plea, Supreme Court withdrew its order after solicitor general Tushar Mehta assured that he would brief the court on the Centre’s stand on the issue.A bench of Justices B R Gavai, Prashant Kumar Mishra…
Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai will hold a meeting with the Heads of Departments of all concerned departments on Monday for the effective implementation of the GRAP IV, his office said in a statement on Sunday.The meeting will be held at the Delhi Secretariat on Monday afternoon.“For effective implementation of GRAP-IV in Delhi, Environment Minister…