BALASORE: Two teachers of a school in Odisha’s Balasore were arrested after a class 9 student accused them of repeated sexual and mental harassment during school hours over the past three months. Police detained the school headmaster for allegedly suppressing the matter. He was questioned for a few hours and let off on Monday.One of…
NEW DELHI: Admitting that ED erred in summoning senior advocates Arvind Datar and Pratap Venugopal for rendering legal opinions to clients in a laundering case, attorney general R Venkataramani Monday told Supreme Court that all probe agencies have been asked not to commit this mistake in future. “We’ll frame guidelines in this regard,” AG told…
NEW DELHI: UGC on Monday issued a show cause notice to Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) “as to why disciplinary or legal action should not be initiated against your institution”, which include “withdrawal of the status of institution deemed to be University” and barred “from any expansion… for a period of three years”. The…
SRINAGAR: The high court bar association in Jammu has barred anyone other than lawyers from wearing a white shirt, black trousers and black coat on the court premises.A statement issued on Saturday by Anshu Mahajan, joint secretary of the bar association, notified that “no clerk, litigant or a member of the general public is permitted…
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar/Kolhapur/Mumbai: Amid MVA’s demands for agriculture minister Manikrao Kokate’s ouster over videos that showed him playing rummy in the legislative council last week, state NCP president Sunil Tatkare expressed strong disapproval of his conduct and said a decision on his resignation will be taken by party national president Ajit Pawar. “What happened was inappropriate….
NEW DELHI: Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday resigned as Vice-President citing health reasons and said that he made the decision to “prioritise health care” and act on “medical advice.”The announcement came just hours after Dhankhar, who also served as Rajya Sabha chairman, addressed the House and raised several serious issues, including the impeachment motion against a…
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday stepped up its attacks on Shashi Tharoor as the party geared up to launch an all-out offensive on the Modi government in the monsoon session of Parliament. On the first day of the session, two senior Kerala leaders launched a broadside against the Thiruvananthapuram MP, urging him to quit…
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday raised serious concerns over a procedural lapse in a motion seeking the removal of a high court judge, after it was found that a member’s signature had appeared twice in the list of supporting MPs. Calling it a “serious and culpable” matter, Dhankhar said such transgressions…
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has intensified its efforts to raise concerns over the status of government schools in Uttar Pradesh, with the issue now likely to be taken up in the Rajya Sabha. AAP MP Sanjay Singh has submitted a notice under Rule 267, requesting a discussion in the Upper House on the closure…
Student suicides dip slightly but mental health crisis deepens, shows NCRB data NEW DELHI: Student suicides accounted for 7.6% of all suicide cases reported in India in 2022, a marginal decline from 8.0% in 2021 and 8.2% in 2020, according to the Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India (ADSI) report published by the National Crime…