Besides, govt has decided to fix the retirement age of chairperson of tribunals at 70, with members to retire at 67, unless they complete their five-year terms NEW DELHI: Tribunal Reforms Bill, piloted by govt in Parliament, is seen as a move that reinforces the constitutional position in appointments: ensuring primacy of the judiciary in…
Phuket flight incident pushes DGCA to seekways to make dope rules more stringent NEW DELHI: Trouble mounted for the pilot-in-command (PIC) of last Tuesday’s badly rattled Phuket-Delhi Air India flight after it emerged that he had failed the confirmatory dope test and was found to have consumed marijuana. Besides, the cabin crew of the flight,…
“The process cannot be so slow that the next assembly elections would be due by the time the appeals are decided,” said CJI Surya Kant. NEW DELHI: With nearly 34 lakh appeals pending adjudication before SIR appellate tribunals against deletion of voters’ names in West Bengal, Supreme Court Tuesday decided to take stock of their…
Additional personnel from the Army, CRPF and police, along with reinforcements, were rushed to the area JAMMU: Security forces launched joint cordon-and-search operations in J&K’s Doda and Poonch districts on being alerted about the sighting of terror suspects, officials said Tuesday.Cordon-and-search operations were initiated in Doda’s upper reaches after some locals captured a video of…
IGP Kashmir VK Birdi said the police were probing the threat letter, believed to have been released on social media on Aug 7. SRINAGAR: J&K police have tightened security in areas of the Valley where Kashmiri Pandits live and allowed some employees to work from home temporarily after Panun Kashmir claimed a purported threat letter…
Quote of the day by Peter Thiel. PayPal founder Peter Thiel contradicted the well-known business lesson that being the first mover in a sector has its own advantage and suggested that it is highly overrated and a trap. Because first-movers can become unseated by a new entrant and he supported his theory by citing how…
The petitioner said that post-May 15, there has been a quantum increase in clips of selectively edited judicial proceedings. NEW DELHI: Three months after CJI Surya Kant’s ‘cockroach’ remark sparked a storm and gave birth to Cockroach Janta Party that led a Gen Z protest against NEET-UG paper leak, Supreme Court Tuesday sought responses from…
“Engagement of SPOs is not of a permanent nature but only to take care of a particular contingency,” the HC noted. Srinagar: Only God can save this country if a police officer, of whatever rank, gets frightened by terrorists’ threats and refuses duties, J&K high court has said while dismissing a cop’s petition for reinstatement.“The…
It also asked Centre to prevail upon six states to close border check posts that they are still operating. NEW DELHI: The Centre should scrap all existing inter-state border check posts within six months and replace the All India Tourist Permit with a unified All India Passenger Permit within a year, a parliamentary panel has…
Quote of the day by Michael Bloomberg. In a professional world caught between working smart and working hard, Michael Bloomberg always maintained that he favored hard work because he was no genius. Today, this stands as a controversial piece of advice, but it remains the core principle that sustained his business career and his time…