In Haryana, if a family member is accused of murdering a govt servant, then he/she or their family members are not entitled to any compassionate financial benefit till they are cleared of the criminal case, but they are eligible for compassionate employment in lieu of the deceased employee.Taking exception to this conflict, a bench of…
National Medical Commission (NMC) continues its flipflop over whether patients and their families should be allowed to file appeals before it.The commission decided in Sept 2024 that its ethics board would entertain all appeals, including those filed by non-medicos, and confirmed this decision in Dec 2025. Five months later, in May, the ethics board claimed…
NEW DELHI: Facial authentication, considered by most gadget users as the gold standard for identity verification, is now being bypassed by fraudsters, who gain unauthorised access to facial data through social media platforms and use artificial intelligence to create deepfake videos and synthetic identities.Sharing this latest modus operandi in a public advisory on Wednesday, Indian…
Calling housewives “nation builders”, Supreme Court for the first time said in case of a homemaker’s death in an accident, the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal will calculate the compensation to be paid to her family by assuming her monthly income to be at least Rs 30,000.Pained by the 25-year delay, 22 of which were because…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday said that a long-standing employee cannot be dismissed from service for indiscipline, insubordination or disobedience and such a penalty must be reserved for cases of corruption, moral turpitude or mala fide actions causing loss to the employer.A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and N K Singh said it was…
Rajya Sabha contests in Maharashtra, MP, Karnataka and Rajasthan ended without a vote on Thursday. NCP’s Rajendra Jain was elected in the bypoll to the seat vacated by deputy CM Sunetra Pawar in the state (), while BJP swept 3 seats in MP. Three Congress candidates and one BJP neta were elected in Karnataka, and…
NEW DELHI: Heed investor feedback and focus on easing the compliance burden as tax benefits and free land alone are not sufficient to attract investment. This was the strong message from PM Narendra Modi to states during the governing council meeting of Niti Aayog on Thursday as he sought to position India as an attractive…
FIFA World Cup 2026 (Image Via Getty) The 2026 FIFA World Cup officially began on June 11 at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, and one of the biggest talking points of the night was the opening ceremony performance by Shakira and Burna Boy. The two global music stars performed “Dai Dai,” the tournament’s official song,…
NEW DELHI: Three merchant ships with Indian crew members have come under attack from the US Navy off the Oman coast in the last four days, resulting in the death of three Indians, said govt, which lodged a strong protest with US and asserted attacks should stop. The number of Indian seafarers killed has increased…
FILE – Representative Image. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, file) Sam Altman‘s OpenAI has banned two clusters of ChatGPT accounts that it says are operating from China. In a blog post, the company said that these ChatGPT accounts used its models for covert influence campaigns targeting US tech and policy debates, including one called “Data Center Bandwagon,”…