Month: April 2025

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: As hundreds of crores of rupees deposited with Motor Accident Claims Tribunals and labour courts remain unclaimed due to the whereabouts and bank details of claimants (road accident victims and workers) being unknown, Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a slew of directions to ensure that the money reaches the claimants and also directed HCs to launch a massive drive to reach out to them.As per figures submitted to SC by different high courts, Rs 282 crore is unclaimed and lying in tribunals in Gujarat, Rs 459 crore in Maharashtra, and Rs 239 in UP. The amount lying in labour courts is also high. "The issue is of great concern. The amounts represent the compensation granted to claimants in the claims filed under Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 and Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923. Though the claimants are held entitled […]

[ad_1] Elon Musk with Tesla car. Elon Musk has announced his time spent running US President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) "will drop significantly" starting in May.The statement from Musk, who also leads EV maker Tesla, comes at a time when the company has suffered a massive 71 per cent loss to its quarterly profits, which fell to $409 million."Probably in the next month, my time allocation to DOGE will drop significantly," the world's richest person was quoted as saying during a Tesla earnings call.The revenue of the Austin, Texas-based EV maker fell to $19.3 billion, down 9 per cent in the January through March period.In recent weeks, analysts have been laying much of the blame for the biggest sales drop in Tesla's history on Musk’s controversial DOGE role, a position which has resulted in protests outside Tesla […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Pakistan's Army chief General Asim Munir's recent dog-whistle - wherein he termed Kashmir as Pakistan's "jugular vein" - is being seen as among the possible triggers for Lashkar-e-Taiba's terror attack in Pahalgam coinciding with the visit of US vice president JD Vance, sources said.While agencies have yet to form a definitive assessment, multiple intelligence officers said there were indicators that Munir's provocative address, in which he also focused on the differential treatment of Muslims and Hindus, may have emboldened The Resistance Front (TRF), a proxy of LeT, which has claimed responsibility for the attack, to plan a "spectacular strike".LeT's top commander Saifullah Kasuri, alias Khalid, is suspected to be one of the plotters, according to an intelligence assessment. The role of two Rawalkot-based Lashkar commanders, one of whom is Abu Musa, is also under scrutiny, sources said.On […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pak-occupied-Kashmir “remains fully intact”, with the main training camps in the hinterland and “launch pads” along the Line of Control (LoC) still very much in place, senior Army officers said on Tuesday after the deadly attack on tourists in Pahalgam.The massacre comes soon after Pak Army chief General Asim Munir last week claimed Kashmir was Islamabad’s “jugular vein”, while invoking the two-nation theory. “Our stance is absolutely clear — it (Kashmir) was our jugular vein, it will be our jugular vein, we will not forget it. We will not leave our Kashmiri brothers in their struggle,” he said. India had, of course, rubbished the comments.The Army HQ in Delhi, especially military operations directorate, was assessing the latest situation till late on Tuesday. “Pak-trained terrorists are using other routes to sneak into […]