New Delhi, May 20 (UNI) The government on Tuesday extended the tenure of senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Tapan Kumar Deka as Director of Intelligence Bureau for one year. According to the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, the tenure of Deka, a 1988 batch officer of the Himachal Pradesh Cadre, has been extended for…
New Delhi, May 20 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Rajasthan on May 22 during which he will lay the foundation stone for and inaugurate multiple development projects worth over Rs 26,000 crore in Palana, Bikaner. During his visit, the Prime Minister will also undertake darshan at Karni Mata temple in Deshnoke. According to…
New Delhi, May 20 (UNI) Amid spurt in cases in Singapore and Hong Kong, the number of active COVID cases in India stands at 257 as on May 19, 2025, the Director General of Health Services (DGHS) said on Tuesday. This a very low figure considering the country’s large population. Almost all of these cases…
New Delhi, May 20 (UNI) In a landmark judgment impacting judicial service aspirants across the country, the Supreme Court on Tuesday reinstated the requirement of a minimum three years of advocacy practice for candidates applying to entry-level judicial posts. The ruling clarifies that this condition will apply prospectively to future recruitment processes and not affect…
New Delhi, May 20 (UNI) A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice BR Gavai and Justice Augustine George Masih on Tuesday took for hearing a clutch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025. The petitioners, led by senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Abhishek Manu Singhvi, have…
New Delhi, May 20 (UNI) The Supreme Court has granted bail to Anwar Dhebar, brother of former Raipur Mayor Aijaz Dhebar, in a money laundering case linked to the alleged Rs 2,161 crore Chhattisgarh liquor scam. The apex court underscored that continued incarceration of an undertrial, in the absence of any substantial progress in the…
New delhi/Chennai, (UNI) Amid rising concerns over increasing COVID cases in Singapore and Hong Kong, which is said to be not life threatening, Union Health Minister J P Nadda allayed the fears of the public and reviewed the situation at a High Level Meeting on Emergency Health Systems Preparedness to prevent spread in India. An…
New Delhi, May 19 (UNI): The Congress on Monday asked the government why it was not responding to its leader Rahul Gandhi’s questions about Operation Sindoor, particularly about US President Donald Trump’s claim that he mediated the ceasefire between India and Pakistan. “Our leader, Rahul Gandhi, has raised some questions regarding the statement made by…
New Delhi, May 19 (UNI) The recent military conflict between India and Pakistan after the Pahalgam terrorist attack was ‘’conventional’’ and there was no ‘nuclear signalling’ by Islamabad, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri told the Parliament Standing Committee here on Monday. Mr Misri also told the Standing Committee on External Affairs that US had no role…
New Delhi, May 19 (UNI) In a significant step to ‘Cyber Secure Bharat’, the Home Ministry’s Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) on Monday introduced the new e-Zero FIR initiative to nab any criminal with unprecedented speed. In his post on ‘X’, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that launched as a pilot project for Delhi,…
