NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday said courts are not barred from determining govt’s additional liability towards citizens in case of an unforeseen nuclear power plant mishap, notwithstanding the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancing of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Act capping operator’s liability at Rs 4,000 crore. The remarks came from a bench of…
NEW DELHI: A 23-year-old law student was arrested on Sunday for allegedly ramming his SUV into a police motorcycle and running over a constable and a civil volunteer in northwest Delhi’s Jahangirpuri, leaving both injured.The incident occurred near the Outer Ring Road when constable Ashish Sangwan and Police Mitra Sandip Singh were on patrol duty,…
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative Usman Jutt was a man on a mission – till vanity got in the way. He successfully infiltrated into India from Pakistan with the objective of establishing a sleeper cell, but put that on hold while he checked into a medical clinic in Srinagar for a hair transplant. Nor is Jutt the…
NEW DELHI: Temperatures topped 46 degrees C at several places on a torrid Tuesday, the season’s hottest day in Delhi, with the punishing prospect of a weeklong spell of broiling heat in store. The met department has sounded orange alerts for heatwave conditions across the city till May 25, reports Kushagra Dixit. The mercury crossed…
NEW DELHI: Mamata Banerjee said the BJP-led Central government would be “removed from power” in the future, days after her party, TMC, suffered a major defeat in the West Bengal Assembly elections.During a meeting with party MLAs in Kalighat, the former West Bengal CM said, “BJP will be removed from power in Delhi in the…
Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice is heading to jail. Thirty days. Effective immediately. Dallas County court documents confirm Rice tested positive for THC, a direct violation of his probation terms, and he was booked at Dallas County Jail on May 19. He’ll be released June 16, which means he is missing Kansas City’s OTAs and…
NEW DELHI: A day after Supreme Court disapproved of its own order denying bail to activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, saying it violated a larger bench ruling, difference of opinion among benches reverberated in the court’s hearing on bail plea of other accused in the 2020 Delhi riots cases, with police on Tuesday telling…
LUCKNOW: Banda in Uttar Pradesh baked at a blistering 48.2 Celsius Tuesday, turning roads gummy, metal searing hot and afternoon air into a blast furnace. Bundelkhand’s parched district has emerged as Asia’s hottest location four times in a month and topped global heat charts twice, a grim badge for a place meteorologists and geologists described…
Space collaboration got a big boost during PM Modi’s visit to Europe. Sweden has formally joined India’s orbiter mission to the Venus planet by signing an agreement to collaborate on the interplanetary mission. And the Norwegian Space Agency has signed an MoU with Isro to give a new dimension to space cooperation between the two…
The Trump administration has reached a settlement that permanently bars the US government from pursuing current tax claims against President Donald Trump, his sons and the Trump Organisation as part of Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns.According to a one-page document posted on the Justice…