The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted one last opportunity to the Centre and the Delhi police to submit their response to climate activist Disha Ravi’s plea to restrain the police from leaking case documents relating to the FIR lodged against her in the “toolkit” case.Justice Prathiba M. Singh asked them to file their counter affidavits within two weeks and posted the case for further hearing on May 18.The 22-year-old activist has stated that she is “severely aggrieved and prejudiced by the media trial surrounding her arrest and the ongoing investigation, where she is being viscerally attacked by the Respondent…
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Emulate Australian as traditional media is passing through a rough phase, says BJP MP Taking a cue from Australia, India should enact a law to make tech giants such as Facebook and Google pay local publishers of news content, senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi demanded in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.Raising the issue through a Zero Hour mention, the former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar said, “The government must make Google, Facebook and YouTube pay print and news channels for the news content they are using freely.” The government should take a cue from the Australian Parliament that passed…
He defends dismantling of Trump’s policies. President Joe Biden urged migrants not to come to the United States on Tuesday, as criticism mounted over a surge in people arriving at the southern border with Mexico, including thousands of unaccompanied children.“Yes I can say quite clearly don’t come over … Don’t leave your town or city or community,” he said in an interview with ABC News, addressing the migrants.Speaking hours after his head of homeland security defended the administration’s immigration policies, Mr. Biden also shrugged off claims that his dismantling of former President Donald Trump’s tough stance had encouraged the surge,…
The report stated that tax on fuel surcharge collected should be refunded to the passengers on cancellation of tickets A parliamentary committee on Wednesday expressed anguish over the lack of uniformity in cancellation charges levied by airlines, and said there is a need to prescribe an upper limit.”Time and again, the committee’s attention has been drawn towards the high cancellation charges levied by the private airlines operating in the country,” the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture said in a report tabled in Rajya Sabha.”The committee underlines the need for rationalising the cancellation charges and prescribing an upper…
Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that once the new Parliament building was ready, the existing one will have to be repaired and made available for alternate use but no comprehensive thought has been given on what use it should be put to.He said no historical or iconic building in Lutyens Delhi will be demolished for the Central Vista project but few buildings will have to be demolished “only when alternate offices have been constructed”.The Centre wants to re-develop the 3-km stretch from the Rashtrapati Bhavan to the India Gate known as…
The California-based company explained in a blog post the improvements it has made with the new version for both Windows and macOS. (Subscribe to our Today’s Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click here to subscribe for free.)Google has released the latest version of its browser, Chrome 89, this month and the tech giant said the browser is more memory efficient and launches even faster.The California-based company explained in a blog post the improvements it has made with the new version for both Windows and macOS.Google said it is seeing ‘significant’ memory savings on Windows,…
Sachin Vaze is at the focus of a probe by the National Investigating Agency in a case related to the recovery of an SUV with explosives near Ambani’s house in Mumbai In what could be seen as the fallout of the ongoing inquiry by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the finding of explosives outside industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s house and the subsequent arrest of Mumbai police officer Sachin Vaze, the Maharashtra government on Wednesday transferred Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh.Also read: Mukesh Ambani home bomb scare linked to Tihar inmateHemant Nagrale, who was handling the additional charge as DGP,…
Punjab CM flags rising positivity rate and need to identify variants, announces stricter policy As active COVID-19 cases in the State surged to 12,616, with the daily positivity rate climbing to over 5%, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday urged the Centre to review its immunisation strategy to vaccinate all age groups in selected areas, while announcing a stricter policy to deal with the problem.The Chief Minister also called for occupation-based immunisation for school and college students and teachers, judges, bus drivers and conductors, panch-sarpanch, mayors, counsellors, MLAS, MPs etc. to pave the way for normalisation of crucial activities…
“India will have to take the first step. Unless they do so, we cannot do much,” the Pakistan Prime Minister said. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said India will be benefitted economically by having peace with his country as it will enable New Delhi to directly access the resource-rich Central Asia region through Pakistani territory.Delivering the inaugural address at the launch of the two-day Islamabad Security Dialogue, Mr. Khan also said that his government, after coming to power in 2018, did everything for better ties with India and it was for India to reciprocate.“India will have to take…
The National Accountability Bureau has accused Maryam Nawaz of committing money-laundering through investments of variable heavy amounts being the main shareholder of Chaudhry Sugar Mills. Pakistan’s anti-graft body on Wednesday reopened a money-laundering investigation against embattled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz and summoned her on March 26.The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has accused 47-year-old Maryam of committing money-laundering through investments of variable heavy amounts being the main shareholder of Chaudhry Sugar Mills. It said she was involved in money laundering with the help of some foreigners during the period of 1992-93 when her father was the Prime…