Right to free speech of media needs balancing with privacy of citizens: SC NEW DELHI: SC on Tuesday acknowledged the importance of media’s right to freedom of speech and expression but said this needed to be balanced with citizens’ right to privacy and dignity and asked petitioner Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) to suggest how…
General medicine leads NEET-PG 2026 Round 1 allotments with 51 of the first 100 seats NEW DELHI: General medicine accounted for more allotments than radiodiagnosis among top entries in the first round of NEET-PG 2026 counselling, highlighting the competing career attractions of the two sought-after PG specialties, reports Anuja Jaiswal.An analysis of Medical Counselling Committee’s…
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir police have arrested a Kashmiri Pandit activist, Rakesh Handoo, in a “cyberterrorism” case for allegedly manipulating and repeatedly circulating terror-related threat material.Handoo, who had unsuccessfully contested the 2008 Assembly elections against National Conference president Farooq Abdullah from Hazratbal constituency, was remanded in police custody for five days by a court in…
Government told the Supreme Court it is drafting a bill to prevent circulation of child pornography and offensive sexual videos online NEW DELHI: Government on Tuesday informed Supreme Court it is in the process of drafting a bill to prevent social media circulation of child pornography, vindictive uploading of videos of consensual sexual acts after…
File photo: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla during the BRICS 12th Parliamentary Forum, at Parliament House, in New Delhi. NEW DELHI: In a joint declaration Tuesday, Brics Parliamentary Forum expressed deep concern over the continued escalation of tensions in West Asia, calling for exercise of maximum restraint and condemning attacks on civilians in Brics member-states….
SC questioned the Centre over spiralling acid attacks, saying existing guidelines have failed and calling for regulation of open-market acid sales. NEW DELHI: Concerned by the spiralling incidents of acid attacks, mostly on women by jilted lovers, Supreme Court Tuesday told Centre about the urgent need for a revisit of the existing guidelines to put…
File photo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the inauguration of the Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation Conclave 2026, in New Delhi. NEW DELHI: AI can give us answers quickly, but testing their veracity must remain the scientist’s responsibility, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday, urging scientists to innovate boldly.Speaking at ‘Emerging Science, Technology and Innovation…
SC questioned the Centre over pharma companies pricing medicines at over 1,000% of cost, saying the industry can’t “run amok” in the name of free market. NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday said the pharma industry cannot be allowed to “run amok” in the name of free market to fix the maximum retail price (MRP) of…
File photo: Election Commision of India EC is yet to respond to an RTI application seeking details of steps taken to address grievances raised by two ECs and copies of files, including notings, related to the issue, despite the 30-day statutory time-limit for giving a reply lapsing, said applicant Commodore Lokesh K Batra (retd) Tuesday….
File photo: Congress spokesperson Jairam Ramesh NEW DELHI: Dubbing the Election Commission’s affidavit in Supreme Court as “deceptive, deceitful and duplicitous”, Congress Tuesday said CEC Gyanesh Kumar has been taking unilateral decisions and the EC’s claims on Form 6 are contradictory.Taking to X, Congress spokesperson Jairam Ramesh wrote, “Oh what a tangled web we weave,…
