SC asked the Centre and CPCB to provide details of how the over Rs 1,000-crore Environment Protection Fund was used NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday asked the Centre and Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to provide details of how the over Rs 1,000-crore Environment Protection Fund (EPF), which was set up in 2008 to compensate…
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ’s octogenarian Germany-based daughter, Anita Pfaff, moved Supreme Court NEW DELHI: Three months after a failed attempt by his grandnephew, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s octogenarian Germany-based daughter, Anita Pfaff, moved Supreme Court Tuesday seeking a direction to govt to bring his ashes back from the Renko-Ji temple in Japan.Pfaff’s petition, settled…
A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement SAN FRANCISCO: A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin said in…
Indian diplomats at the permanent mission of India to the UN are still displaced from their premises NEW YORK: Indian diplomats at the Permanent Mission of India to the UN are still displaced from their premises three weeks after evacuation orders were issued for them after structural damage was reported in a high-rise under-construction building.The…
PM Modi emphasised ‘safety, security and future of the youth’, said Rijiju NEW DELHI: PM Modi Tuesday said govt is taking measures to make the exam system “foolproof” and called for shunning partisan politics over paper leaks that have surfaced in several states and under different dispensations, sending out a message of firm intent to…
10,000 records of current and retired diplomats is believed to have been compromised A system that held roughly 10,000 records of current and retired diplomats is believed to have been compromised by an unidentified hacker, foreign ministry spokesperson Park II told reporters on Tuesday. Park didn’t confirm how many records had been accessed, but Yonhap…
The bench asked the SEC to come out with an election schedule by Friday. NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday sought Maharashtra State Election Commission’s response by Friday on issuance of a notification to conduct polls in Aug-Sept for remaining 20 zila parishads and 211 nagar panchayats and brushed aside SEC’s ongoing SIR exercise as the…
WASHINGTON: The US department of justice (DoJ) said on Monday it launched a probe reviewing whether some Harvard University financial aid programmes were discriminatory. The probe is to determine whether its China-based financial aid programmes and practices exclude American-citizen students, the department said.Harvard said on Monday it “does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of…
A day after the Chalo Sansad march NEW DELHI: BJP had a go at opposition parties Tuesday as Aam Aadmi Party attacked Congress over its dharna outside PM’s residence on the NEET-UG paper leak issue, saying it is quite obvious that the “sponsored” protests were never about students but about the opposition’s search for political…
The developments came as thousands of protesters returned to Jantar Mantar to continue the agitation. NEW DELHI: Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were released after being detained by Delhi Police during a protest near Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence. The party had marched to Lok Kalyan Marg demanding the resignation of Prime…