NEW DELHI: Reviving the debate on National Judicial Appointment Commission (NJAC), Union law minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday defended the NJAC Act as the “collective will of the nation” and iterated for the second time in less than 10 days that the collegium system of appointing judges is opaque. The NJAC Act, unanimously passed by […]
MELBOURNE: The crucial T20 World Cup clash between old rivals Australia and England was on Friday called off without a ball being bowled due to intermittent rain, making the race to semifinals tougher for the two top teams. After the Afghanistan-Ireland game in the afternoon was washed out at the MCG, it was a double […]
NEW DELHI: BJP’s West Delhi MP Parvesh Verma courted yet another controversy on Friday after a video of him shouting at an officer during his inspection of ghats at the Yamuna ahead of the Chhath festival surfaced on social media. The one-and-a-half minute video showed Verma threatening a Delhi Jal Board (DJB) officer with pouring […]
NEW DELHI: Spelling out its stance on the culture of freebies in response to the Election Commission’s letter to various political parties, the BJP has made a distinction between freebies and welfarism, suggesting that the parties should place emphasis on voter empowerment and capacity-building rather than increase the dependency of people. “The freebies are meant […]
BAREILLY: The special MP-MLA court of additional chief judicial magistrate Nishant Maan in Rampur has awarded three years’ imprisonment to senior SP leader and ex-minister Azam Khan in a 2019 hate speech case on Thursday. The court also slapped a cash fine of Rs 6,000, reports Kanwardeep Singh. “I have not lost faith. Not all […]
NEW DELHI: In a landmark decision, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday announced equal match fee for both female and male centrally-contracted players in a bid to promote gender equality in the country’s most popular sport. “We are implementing pay equity policy for our contracted BCCI women cricketers,” BCCI general […]
SYDNEY: Suryakumar Yadav bullied an inexperienced attack as the Indian team not for once took its foot off the pedal to thrash Netherlands by 56 runs for its second win in the T20 World Cup here on Thursday. A target of 180, riding on half-centuries from skipper Rohit Sharma (53 off 39 balls), Virat Kohli […]
AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine has been linked to a 30-percent higher risk of getting a very rare blood clotting condition compared to the Pfizer jab, a large international study said Thursday. Stay with TOI for live updates- Source link
Elon Musk, the billionaire poised to acquire Twitter later this week, strolled into the company’s headquarters Wednesday carrying a porcelain sink and tweeting “Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in!” Musk’s $44 billion deal to take Twitter private faces a Friday deadline, although the video he posted offered no evidence that the acquisition is […]
NEW DELHI: With Rishi Sunak taking over as Britain’s first Indian-origin Prime Minister, speculations are high that a free trade deal with India will get the much-needed impetus. On Wednesday, Britain said that it has completed majority of sections of a free trade agreement with India but will only sign off on the deal once […]
