Four of the five hotels in Kasauli that had been slapped with demolition and fine orders by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), received interim stays of those orders from the Supreme Court on June 28....
Above Illustration: Amitava Sen
RTI activists Nikhil Dey, Naurti Bai and three others were convicted in a 19-year-old case by a Rajasthan court. They were allegedly framed for seeking information i...
Above: Picture by Anil Shakya
Another government organization, the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL) shows a lot of vacancies. On June 28 the Supreme Court vacation bench pulled up the Ce...
Above: Opposition Presidential candidate Meira Kumar filing her nomination to Lok Sabha Secretary General at Parliament house, in New Delhi on Wednesday. Photo: UNI
Meira Kumar, the Opposition can...
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on June 27 issued its standard Gazetted notification (Extraordinary), saying that those applying for PAN from July 1 will have to mention his/her Aadhaar numbe...
Above: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley chairing a GST Council meeting. Photo: UNI
With the imposition of GST just hours away, the GST Council, headed by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, has...
Above: Supreme Court of India (Photo: Anil Shakya)
Another name sent up to the government by the Supreme Court Collegium for consideration for judgeship has been held back. This lawyer is from the ...
Above: Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and the President of United States of America, Donald J Trump at the Joint Press Statement, at White House, in Washington DC, USA on June 26, 2017.
The joint s...
Above: Syed Salahuddin(center), chief of Hizbul Mujahideen leads a protest rally against the planned visit of Indian Interior Minister Rajnath Singh in Islamabad in 2016. Photo: UNI
Union Home Secr...
Above: Department of Personnel and Training, North Block
Aligned with the Narendra Modi government’s claim that it has been clamping down on corruption at all levels, 39 Indian Administrative Servi...