The Supreme Court on Friday stepped up the heat on bureaucrats and police officers who willingly become tools in the hands of regimes to carry out illegal orders from their political masters, saying that it is mulling setting up a standing committee in each state headed by the high court chief justice to scrutinise citizens’ complaints against them.
As a first step to promote the ‘silver economy’, the Centre’s ‘Seniorcare Ageing Growth Engine’ project has taken off with the selection of nine start-ups for their innovative products and services for the elderly. The ministry of social justice and empowerment will act as the facilitator in the entire process to help the elderly with identified start-ups.
The Gupkar Alliance that has been fighting for the restoration of pre-August 5, 2019 special constitutional status of J&K, on Friday slammed the recently released report by the ministry of home affairs (MHA) on the region and called it “concocted and fabricated” as “the ground situation belies these claims.”
While the government remains disappointed that Sri Lanka reneged on an agreement with India and Japan to develop the East Container Terminal (ECT) at the Colombo port, it sees as a ``useful step’’ Lanka’s decision to enter into a $ 700 million deal with the Adani group for developing another terminal at the same port.
A Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist, who had joined the outfit barely 20 days ago, was killed in an encounter in south Kashmir’s Shopian district early Friday. In another anti-terror operation, a joint team of security forces apprehended a LeT terrorist with a hand grenade and 29 rounds of 7.62mm calibre from Shopian’s Mujhmarg Junction later in the day.
Top opposition figures, including Congress's Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, NCP patriarch Sharad Pawar and Le...
