Amritpal’s wife, Kirandeep, arrived at the airport around 11.40 am to board Air India Flight 117, which was to depart for Birmingham at 2.30 pm. As soon as the media got wind of this, they made a beeline to the airport and found her standing in the queue with her luggage trolley.
A senior EC functionary told TOI that the poll panel ordered 3.4 lakh VVPATs to be sent back between February and August 2022 to Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) and Electronics Corporation of India Ltd (ECIL), the two PSUs that exclusively manufacture VVPATs, for "preventive maintenance" tasks T1-T4.
The United Nations Population Fund’s ‘State of the World Population Report 2023’ pegs India’s mid-year population at 142.86 crore and China’s at 142.57 crore. Given that India has in recent years been adding about 1.6-to-1.7 crore annually to its population, and with 10 weeks to go for June-end, it could mean that the country has either already crept ahead or would do so anytime now.
The HC had on October 14 last year discharged Saibaba and four others but the apex court suspended the order just a day after in a special hearing. It had found fault in the HC judgement as the court did not examine the serious charges levelled against the accused and did not adjudicate on the merit of the case while adopting a "short-cut" approach in discharging them on the ground of lack of sanction or invalid sanction to prosecute them.
“The state cannot discriminate against a person for his/her sexual orientation which is innate to him/her and over which he/she has no control,” the five-judge bench led by CJI DY Chandrachud said as it continued hearing on the demand for legalising same-sex marriage and putting it on the same legal footing as heterosexual unions.Top opposition figures, including Congress's Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, NCP patriarch Sharad Pawar and Le...
