Women’s reproductive rights: SC notice to Centre on plea against age restriction
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has sought response from the Centre on a plea against the age restriction of 35 years on women’s reproductive rights for conducting pre-conception and pre-natal diagnostic tests. A bench of Justices S K Kaul and Abhay S Oka issued notice to the Union government and others on a plea filed […]
Custodial interrogation not needed can’t be sole ground to grant anticipatory bail, says SC
New Delhi, Oct 27 (PTI) The Supreme Court has criticised the practice of High Courts to grant anticipatory bail to accused in criminal cases on the ground that no custodial interrogation is required. A bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice J B Pardiwala said there is a serious misconception that if no case for […]
WhatsApp back after nearly 2-hr outage
New Delhi: WhatsApp services were restored following a nearly two-hour-long global outage on Tuesday that left users from the UK to India complaining about not being able to send or receive text and video messages. Meta, which owns the popular messaging app, said it has fixed the outage – dubbed as one of its longest […]
China’s economic growth accelerates but weak amid shutdowns
Beijing: China’s economic growth picked up in the latest quarter but still was among the weakest in decades as the ruling Communist Party tries to reverse a slump while enforcing anti-virus controls and a crackdown on debt in its vast real estate industry. The world’s second-largest economy grew by 3.9% over a year earlier in […]
Rushdie loses sight in eye and use of one hand after knife attack: Report
New York: Salman Rushdie has lost sight in an eye and his one hand is incapacitated following the brutal knife attack on the acclaimed Mumbai-born author in August, his literary agent said. Rushdie, who faced Islamist death threats for years after writing “The Satanic Verses” book, was stabbed in the neck and stomach on stage […]
Home ministry cancels FCRA licences of 2 NGOs headed by Sonia Gandhi
New Delhi: The Centre has cancelled the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) licences of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF) and the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust (RGCT) two NGOs headed by Congress leader Sonia Gandhi for alleged violation of laws, officials said on Sunday. The action came following investigations carried out by an inter-ministerial committee formed […]
Pak, China to launch 3 new corridors besides CPEC: Report
Islamabad: Pakistan and China have decided to jointly launch three new projects in addition to the existing multi-billion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as the all-weather allies seek to ramp up bilateral ties in various sectors, including agriculture, health and science and technology. Speaking at the China Economic Net (CEN) in Beijing, Pakistan’s Ambassador to China […]
SC approves NEET-PG schedule for academic year 2022-23, modifies its 2016 order
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday modified its 2016 order and approved the academic calendar for postgraduate medical courses proposed by the National Medical Commission for the academic year 2022-23 in view of the delay in starting the previous two academic years due to the onset of COVID-19. The approved academic calendar says that […]
India eyeing USD 5 billion exports, 22 billion turnover in defence sector by 2025: Rajnath
Gandhinagar: Terming exports as a key pillar for long-term sustainability of the domestic defence industry, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said the government has set itself a target of achieving defence exports of USD 5 billion by 2025. Speaking at an event at the 12th Defence Expo here, he also said the government was […]
UN Secretary General Guterres pays tributes to 26/11 terror attacks victims
Mumbai: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday paid tributes to the victims of the 26/11 terror attacks at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai on the first day of his three-day visit to India. Accompanied by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, Guterres placed a foral wreath at the […]
