Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday said the TDP-led NDA government is working towards developing tribal areas and plains on an equal footing. Commemorating the ‘World Tribal Day’, the chief minister noted that the NDA alliance government is working to illuminate the lives of tribals. My greetings to tribal brothers and…
New Delhi: State Bar Councils or the Bar Council of India cannot collect any “optional” fee other than the statutory charge from law graduates enrolling as lawyers, the Supreme Court has said while asking the Karnataka State Bar Council to stop collecting any such amount. A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan…
Uttarakashi: Four helicopters were pressed into service to airlift people stranded in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi after flash floods and landslides earlier this week that claimed multiple lives and left behind a trail of destruction. According to official data, 729 people have been evacuated from parts of the disaster-hit Dharali area that are still cut off following…
Kargil War Veteran Appeals for Nationwide Prevention Measures Hyderabad: Disturbed by the alarming rise in suicides, Kargil War veteran and anti-suicide crusader Group Captain G.J. Rao called on Hon’ble Telangana Governor Jishnu Dev Varma at Raj Bhavan on Friday. During the meeting, Group Captain Rao presented two of his books on Sustainable Suicide Prevention Models…
Washington: US President Donald Trump announced on Friday (local time) that the in-person meeting between him and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, will take place on August 15 in Alaska. The two leaders are expected to discuss ways to end the war in Ukraine that broke out in 2022. “The highly anticipated meeting between me,…
New York/Washington: US President Donald Trump warned Friday of cataclysmic consequences on the US economy if a court rules that his imposition of sweeping tariffs constitutes an illegal power grab. If a “Radical Left Court” strikes down the tariffs, “it would be impossible to ever recover, or pay back, these massive sums of money and…
Uttarkashi: Sniffer dogs nosed their way through high piles of rubble, drones circled overhead, and rescue personnel searched for the missing through the sludge in disaster-hit Dharali on Friday, four days after raging waters buried half the village and left scores missing. Since Tuesday, 650 people have been rescued, 400 on Thursday and 250 on…
New Delhi/Mumbai: Air India has decided to increase the retirement age for pilots to 65 years and for non-flying staff to 60 years, sources said on Friday. At present, the retirement age for both pilots and non-flying staff at the airline is 58 years. The announcement about increasing the superannuation age was made at the…
New Delhi: The Delhi Assembly on Friday passed the School Fee Regulation Bill, 2025, which gives veto power to parents in decisions regarding fee hikes, ensuring that school managements cannot unilaterally impose fee increases. Delhi Education Minister Ashish Sood, in the Assembly, said, “If even a single parent member disagrees, the proposal for fee hike…
For decades, India’s taxpayers have slogged through a byzantine web of rules, archaic forms, and enough legal jargon to make a Supreme Court judge reach for an aspirin. The Income Tax Act of 1961, while a landmark in its time, had turned into a creaky, overgrown forest of clauses, sub-clauses, exceptions, and obscure circulars. Every…
