Mumbai, June 23 (UNI) Bollywood star and filmmaker Aamir Khan’s film ‘Sitaare Zameen Par’ has made an impressive debut, collecting approximately Rs 60 crores within its first three days of release in the Indian market. Released in theatres on June 20, the film is being seen as a spiritual follow-up to Khan’s 2007 classic ‘Taare…
Colombo, June 23 (UNI) Sri Lanka quick Milan Rathnayake has been ruled out for the second Test against Bangladesh after sustaining a left-side strain in the Galle Test. The hosts will also be without the services of veteran all-rounder Angelo Mathews, who drew curtains on his Test career following the series opener. In their stead,…
New Delhi, June 23 (UNI) Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Vikas Singh has written to Chief Justice of India (CJI) B.R. Gavai, urging the relocation of the National Judicial Museum and Archive from the current high-security zone within the Supreme Court campus to the Additional Building Area. The SCBA has proposed that the vacated…
New Delhi, June 23 (UNI) The Supreme Court on Monday expressed its intent to lay down guidelines for issuing OBC (Other Backwards Classes) certificates to children of single mothers, allowing the use of the mother’s caste certificate without requiring documents from the paternal side. A bench comprising Justices KV Viswanathan and N Kotiswar Singh heard…
New Delhi, June 23 (UNI) The Supreme Court on Monday stayed a 2019 deportation order issued against a Sri Lankan Tamil immigrant and sought a response from Indian authorities regarding his request to visit the Embassy of Switzerland in person to process a humanitarian visa application. A bench comprising Justices KV Viswanathan and N Kotiswar…
New Delhi, June 23 (UNI) India on Monday slammed the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for its ‘unwarranted and factually incorrect’ references at the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and said these statements, driven by Pakistan which has turned terrorism into statecraft, reflect the continued misuse of the OIC platform for narrow political ends….
New Delhi, June 23 (UNI) In order to address the issue of water logging on National Highways during the monsoon season, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is taking proactive measures for flood preparedness across the country. To tackle challenges during the monsoon season, NHAI has initiated a 15-day drive involving its officials, contractors, and…
New Delhi, June 23 (UNI) Seven first-generation women lawyers have been selected for the prestigious Indian Litigation Fellowship 2025–2026, a programme that aims to empower young female litigators through financial assistance, professional mentorship and institutional support at the formative stage of their legal careers. Out of 430 applications received from across the country, five were…
New Delhi, June 23 (UNI): In a major step towards empowering grassroots governance, the Union Ministry of Panchayati Raj has partnered with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad to train panchayats in generating their own revenue and becoming financially self-reliant. A three-day Training of Trainers (ToT) programme on “Generation of own source revenue by…
New Delhi, June 23 (UNI) The Supreme Court on Monday strongly condemned the increasing trend of accused individuals securing bail by voluntarily offering to deposit large sums of money and later reneging on those promises by challenging the conditions as “onerous” or claiming their lawyers lacked authority to make such offers. A bench, comprising Justices…
