NEW DELHI: General Upendra Dwivedi said on Tuesday the Army is ready to induct women in the infantry but that is contingent on societal acceptance.Stressing that women should not be seen as a “vulnerable commodity”, the General, during a media briefing, said the Army’s focus is on “gender neutrality”. “If standards are same, if capabilities…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission on Tuesday told Supreme Court that scrutiny of citizenship during SIR of voter lists was only meant to ensure deletion of non-citizens from electoral rolls and did not extend to termination of citizenship or deportation. EC, through senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi, told a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice…
NEW DELHI: Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has come out with standards for hospital bills, laying down formatting requirements to improve readability and consistency, including the use of legible fonts, and availability of bills in physical and digital formats.In a release, BIS said sample formats for both summary bills and itemised bills have been provided…
NEW DELHI: To check the trend of highway contractors and consultants quickly getting a court stay on debarment and blacklisting orders issued by authorities for defaults, the government is working on a two-pronged strategy: studying the pattern through which such legal relief is secured and largely eliminating the scope of debarment, which can be challenged…
JAMMU: Gunshots rang out in the air Tuesday after security forces launched a joint search operation in Najote, a remote village in J&K’s Kathua district, based on information about the presence of terrorists there. The area lies near Kamadh Nallah in Kahog forest belt, where an encounter had erupted on Jan 7. The same evening,…
Rahul Gandhi, DK Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi briefly met Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah and deputy CM DK Shivakumar at the Mysuru airport on Tuesday, fuelling speculation amid the ongoing power tussle between the two state Congress stalwarts.The interaction took place on the tarmac during Gandhi’s transit halt while returning to…
NEW DELHI: A visit by a delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to New Delhi has triggered a sharp political row with the Congress and the BJP trading accusations over transparency and India’s China policy.The row began after a CPC delegation led by its international department’s vice minister Sun Haiyan visited the BJP…
New ‘Thalaiva’: Congress ‘rebrands’ Rahul Gandhi – no more ‘Jannayak’? NEW DELHI: The Tamil Nadu unit of the Congress on Tuesday shared an AI-generated video of Rahul Gandhi, captioned “Welcome Thalaiva (leader),” for his visit to the poll-bound state.The over two-minute clip features Gandhi walking down a path with his helicopter in the background, greeted…
NEW DELHI: Amidst the ongoing political tussle between the AAP party and Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra over alleged insult of Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur, AAP demanded an apology from the minister on Tuesday, claiming that it was he who in the first place was insulting the Sikh Guru and manipulating Leader of Opposition Atishi Marlena’s…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that the Election Commission has unilaterally deleted 54 lakh names from the draft electoral rolls during the special intensive revision (SIR) in the state by using AI tools devised by the BJP and misusing the powers of electoral registration officers (EROs). Addressing a press…
