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The Bombay High Court on Tuesday pulled up the Maharashtra police for its “superficial” probe in tracing a woman who went missing after she went to Rajasthan three months ago, leaving her baby behind. A division bench of Justices Bharati Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande directed the superintendent of police, Kolhapur, to coordinate with his counterpart in Jalod, Rajasthan and ensure that the woman is traced and produced in court on June 20. The bench remarked that it was “unbelievable that police machinery of two states, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, were unable to trace a woman”. The bench was hearing a habeas…
In an exclusive interview with NDTV, UGC Chairperson M Jagadesh Kumar has talked about the biannual admission process according to which admissions can either be offered in January-February or July-August from the new academic year. Mr Kumar explained that currently, higher education institutions admit students in one academic session, which starts in July-August and ends in May-June. Students who miss the admission process have to wait one full year to get admission in colleges. The University Grants Commission wanted to introduce a system where students do not have to wait for an entire year for securing admission in colleges. With the option…
In his first stint as a Union Minister, HD Kumaraswamy, a two-time chief minister from Karnataka, has said that he is “not a selfish man” and his focus will now be not just his home state, but the entire country. Taking charge of the Steel and Heavy Industries portfolios on Tuesday, the Janata Dal Secular leader was asked by a reporter if a company like Tesla would be interested in setting up a factory in Karnataka. “Yes, it is there. We will try”, Mr Kumaraswamy said, before adding, “My concern is not limited to Karnataka, it is the entire country’s…
The big test for Nirmala Sitharaman, who has retained the finance ministry in the third term of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will be the upcoming budget, where she has to lay the roadmap for the next year, Finance Commission chairman Dr Arvind Panagriya has said. He also disagreed with the view that there is a need for job creation, arguing that the capital in the market is enough for jobs, but they are tied up in sectors that are not labor intensive. What is needed, he said, is to reassign the capital, so it generates more jobs. “You have got…
Two days after nine people died when the bus they were travelling in was shot at by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Raesi district, a person was killed and two others were reportedly injured after terrorists opened fire in a village in the Union Territory’s Kathua district, close to the International Border. A terrorist has also been killed. In a post on X, Union Minister Jitendra Singh, who is the MP from Udhampur, said, “I am in continuous online contact with DC (district collector) #Kathua Sh Rakesh Minhas in the wake of a terrorist attack on a house in village Saida…
Two Indians who were recruited by the Russian Army have been killed in the ongoing Russia- Ukraine conflict. Confirming this, the foreign ministry said the government has taken up the issue with Russia and asked that recruitment of Indians in the Russian army be stopped immediately and all Indians currently with the Russian army be allowed to return. The ministry has also asked people to be cautious while taking up jobs in Russia. “The Ministry of External Affairs and the Indian Embassy in Moscow have strongly taken up the matter with the Russian Ambassador in New Delhi and with Russian…
One of the world’s largest armies is set to get a new chief with the government announcing that Lt General Upendra Dwivedi will take over as the Chief of the Army Staff from General Manoj C Pande on June 30. Lt General Dwivedi, who has been decorated with the Param Vishisht Seva Medal and the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal, is currently the Vice Chief of the Army Staff and will take charge on the afternoon of June 30, the day General Pande demits office. Born in 1964, Lt General Dwivedi was commissioned into the Jammu & Kashmir Rifles, an infantry…
Poor refereeing robbed India of a chance to secure a historic entry into the third round of the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers as fancied Qatar rode on a controversial goal to emerge 2-1 winners on Tuesday. India were ahead thanks to Lallianzuala Chhangte’s 37th minute strike but disaster struck when the referee adjudged Yousef Aymen’s goal as fair after the ball appeared to have gone out of play. The hugely controversial decision disturbed India’s momentum as Asian champions Qatar scored their second through Ahmed Al-Rawi in the 85th minute. In another final second round match, Kuwait beat Afghanistan 1-0. Qatar…
President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden was convicted by a jury on Tuesday of lying about his drug use to illegally buy a gun, a verdict Democrats may seize upon to counter Donald Trump’s claim of a justice system weaponized against him. A jury in Wilmington, Delaware, federal court found him guilty on all three counts against him, making Hunter Biden the first child of a sitting US president to be convicted of a crime. A verdict of the 12-member jury must be unanimous on each count. The trial followed the May 30 criminal conviction of Trump, the first former…
FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier India vs Qatar LIVE Score: India take on Asian champions Qatar, hoping to create history in the FIFA World Cup 2026 and AFC Asian Cup 2027 Preliminary Joint Qualifiers Round 2. India will take the field at the Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium in Doha, having played out a stalemate against Kuwait in Kolkata. Sunil Chhetri is not available for the trip to Qatar after the veteran striker played his last game for India last week at the Salt Lake Stadium. India are still second in Group A with five points from as many matches, but they must now…