NEW DELHI: For 15 days, Sunaina Devi (55) survived on river water and the fragile shelter of a half-submerged thatched hut, after being swept 50km downstream by the monsoon-swollen Ganga. She was found alive Monday by fishermen who heard her cries.Devi, from Kapurpatti village in Bihar’s Buxar district, had gone to bathe on Aug 30…
New Delhi: More than a decade after govt mandated installation of speed limiting devices or speed limiting functions in all public transport vehicles, enforcement remains lax, and Supreme Court Tuesday directed Centre, states and UTs to ensure compliance.Rule 118 of Central Motor Vehicles Rules provides for speed governors, and SC had passed various orders for…
NEW DELHI: A single bad day should not decide a student’s future – and a poorly equipped examination centre should not ruin it. These concerns feature in thousands of suggestions received by the high-powered task force set up to overhaul India’s examination system.The panel, led by Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, has been consulting stakeholders ahead…
NEW DELHI: Govt reiterated Tuesday that it had invited Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman for both Brics and a bilateral visit. In a letter dated July 14, accessed by TOI, PM Narendra Modi had invited Rahman for the Brics summit in his capacity as Bimstec chair and said his participation would “greatly enrich the deliberations”.After Rahman’s…
New Delhi: BJP Tuesday accused Congress of keeping its partisan interests above national interests, slamming the opposition party for the absence of its three chief ministers at the Brics gala dinner. “Political and ideological differences are always there but there should no difference when it comes to national interest,” BJP MP Bansuri Swaraj said.Three Congress…
NEW DELHI: A special panel may recommend to the govt that status quo should be maintained on the definition of Scheduled Castes, as laid down by the Presidential (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950, and not expanded to bring in Dalit converts to Islam and Christianity.The commission of inquiry, headed by former Chief Justice of India KG…
Disha Salian was late actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s manager NEW DELHI: Decorated CBI officer Seema Pahuja will supervise the investigation into the Disha Salian case, bringing her expertise in handling sensitive criminal inquiries to this high-profile probe, sources said. The team is set to record statements of all individuals who attended a gathering earlier that…
MUMBAI: The Foundation for Aviation Safety (FAS), a US aviation safety group, has written to India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), questioning why it has not issued interim safety recommendations for the Boeing 787 fleet, despite holding evidence of chronic system failures on the aircraft involved in last year’s Ahmedabad crash, which killed 260 people.Over…
Chitra Ramakrishnan (File photo) NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday rejected the plea of former National Stock Exchange (NSE) managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) Chitra Ramakrishna challenging proceedings against her under the Prevention of Corruption Act.A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and K Vinod Chandran refused to interfere with a Delhi high court…
NEW DELHI: SC Tuesday refused to entertain former Delhi mayor Farhad Suri’s plea for an FIR against UP police for conducting a midnight raid at his city home in search of journalist and Ram temple donation pilferage whistleblower Abhishek Upadhyay.Suri’s counsel, Anoop Awasthi, told SC that a Ghaziabad police team had raided Suri’s Nizamuddin East…