NEW DELHI: Supreme Court judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan on Sunday said in merit-based selections, women secure more than 50% of judicial officers’ posts across states, but in the collegium’s subjective assessment criteria, only a minuscule get selected as judges of high courts and SC.Addressing the Supreme Court Bar Association’s first national conference at Bengaluru, Justice…
If two companies file H-1B petitions for the same individual not by mistake but to game the lottery, it is considered fraud. If one withdraws the petition in the nick of time, the matter was not pursued by the USCIS but now a landmark decision by the USCIS Administrative Appeals Office says that withdrawing a…
NEW DELHI: The proposed India-EU free trade agreement (FTA) is expected to improve access to technology and create new opportunities for localisation and exports, Skoda Auto Volkswagen India MD and CEO Piyush Arora told TOI. “The FTA strengthens our strategy of developing products in India for the Indian market, while also creating opportunities for exports……
NEW DELHI: Amid the crisis in West Asia, two vessels – LPG tanker Pyxis Pioneer, carrying 16,714 tonnes of LPG from the US, and oil tanker Aqua Titan, carrying 96,099 tonnes of Russian crude – arrived at New Mangalore Port on Sunday.Mangaluru has India’s largest underground LPG storage facility of 80,000 tonnes, which became operational…
NEW DELHI: Amid the LPG supply crunch, the Centre has asked all ministries to assess the potential demand of piped natural gas (PNG) across canteens and pantries at govt departments and offices, and push for its expansion.It has also urged govt establishments, residential colonies and canteens to switch to PNG, while city gas distribution (CGD)…
The Empire State recorded 8,314 UFO sightings since 1974, or one for every 1,003 residents. Delaware holds the top spot.New York has climbed two places to rank third among the most likely states in the United States for alien abductions, according to Casino.ca’s annual ranking published to mark National Alien Abduction Day on 20 March….
HDFC Bank CEO and MD Sashidhar Jagdishan said in an interview with TOI that there were matters on which he and the former chairman agreed to disagree, and these were dealt with maturity on the board, and his resignation came as a surprise. However, Chinese whispers gave these a dramatic flavour outside.When did you come…
‘Project Hail Mary’ is bringing audiences to movie theaters in numbers the industry hasn’t seen for a non-franchise film since ‘Oppenheimer’. The science fiction epic starring Ryan Gosling earned around USD 80.5 million in ticket sales in its first weekend playing in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday. Box office tracker EntTelligence estimates that…
Scientists have made an astonishing finding that brings us closer than ever to the concept of ‘Green Mars’, by discovering a desert moss species – Syntrichia caninervis – which may be able to act as a pioneer in colonising the Red Planet. A paper published in The Innovation (Cell Press) details the abilities of this…
MUMBAI: As the global markets enter the fourth week of the war in West Asia, in the domestic market oil & gas, banking and auto stocks are expected to be the main focus of Dalal Street investors in the new but truncated trading week. During the first three weeks, as crude oil prices jumped about…
