Month: May 2025

[ad_1] 3 new judges take oath, SC reaches its full strength of 34 NEW DELHI: Chief Justice B R Gavai Friday administered oath of office to three new SC judges, Justices N V Anjaria, Vijay Bishnoi and A S Chandurkar. With this, SC reached its constitutionally sanctioned strength of 34 judges.On May 26, the collegium comprising CJI Gavai, and Justices Surya Kant, Vikram Nath, J K Maheshwari and B V Nagarathna, had recommended to Centre to appoint Karnataka HC CJ Anjaria, Gauhati HC CJ Bishnoi and Bombay HC's Justice Chandurkar as SC judges. Justice Anjaria and Chandurkar would have a little less than a five-year tenure each, while Justice Bishnoi would have less than four-year tenure in SC. Justice Anjaria was appointed as a judge of Gujarat HC on Nov 21, 2011, and took oath as CJ of Karnataka HC […]

[ad_1] Representative image (Picture credit: IANS) RAIPUR: At a time when all of Bastar is on high alert following the loot of 5,000kg explosives by Maoists in neighbouring Odisha, three villagers were grievously injured in an IED blast in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Bijapur district Friday morning. This is the first attack on civilians since the encounter killing of CPI(Maoist) general secretary Basavaraju on May 21.Police identified the trio as Vivek Dhodi (17), Badde Sunil (20), and Gote Joga (45), of Erragufa Para in Madded region, around 470km from Raipur, close to the Maharashtra border. The blast occurred between 8.30am and 9 am when they were walking to nearby Bandepara village. All three were riddled with splinters in their legs and faces. Maoists indiscriminately plant IEDs, even on paths frequented by villagers. On March 31 this year, a tribal woman was killed […]

[ad_1] 'Pak's dangerous game of terror over': Defense minister Rajnath Singh (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Pakistan needs to understand that the "dangerous game" of terrorism that it has been playing since 1947 is over, defence minister Rajnath Singh said Friday, demanding that Islamabad hand over terrorists like Hafiz Saeed and Masood Azhar to India for justice.Stressing that PM Modi has made it clear that another terrorist act on Indian soil will be treated as "act of war", Singh said Operation Sindoor was India's "frontal assault" against terrorism and if Pakistan resorted to "anything evil or unethical" again, it would face the Indian Navy's "firepower and ire" this time."India will not hesitate. It will use every method to root out menace of terrorism. Even methods that Pakistan cannot think of," he said, addressing officers and sailors on board aircraft carrier […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: In a bid to cool down edible oil prices, the government on Friday lowered the basic customs tax on crude edible oils by 10 percentage points. The duty change, effective Friday, is aimed at lowering the prices of palm oil, soyoil and sunflower oil. The move, which will reduce the effective duty to 16.5%, came amid a spike in prices, estimated at 17.4% in the retail inflation data for April.Prices of edible oils have heated up globally, negating the impact of a bumper mustard harvest in India. Mustard oil prices on average are 25% higher at over Rs 170 a litre, according to official data. Compared with a year ago, the average retail price of palm oil soared 34% to Rs 134 a litre on May 28, while sunflower prices were 30% higher. Soyoil has seen the […]