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Energy security is not just about power generation, it’s about controlling the systems behind itAs electricity becomes the backbone of AI, industry, and transportation, energy security will increasingly depend on controlling the techno...
Meta lobbies Congress for protection from child-harm lawsuitsIf adopted by lawmakers and passed into law as part of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) under consideration in the U.S. Senate, such a pro...
Trump administration drops $1.8 billion 'weaponization' fund after Republican backlashThe Trump administration has dropped its $1.8 billion fund meant to compensate victims of government abuse. This decision followed strong o...
Sexual harassment case: SC agrees to examine Raj Bhavan employee's plea challenging immunity to WB GovernorThe Supreme Court has agreed to hear a plea by a woman staff member of the West Bengal Raj Bhawan alleging sexual harassment by Governor CV...
Sexual harassment case: Raj Bhavan employee moves SC challenging immunity to WB GovernorA woman staff member of West Bengal Raj Bhawan has challenged the immunity granted to Governor CV Ananda Bose under Article 361 of the Cons...
Is Donald Trump immune from criminal prosecution? This is what Supreme Court judges have saidThe US Supreme Court court discussed how to define the scope of presidential immunity. Seeking to draw a line between the president’s perso...
Social media platforms should be responsible for what they publish: IT Min Ashwini VaishnawIndia's Telecom and IT Minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, emphasized that social media platforms must take responsibility for the content they pub...
Policy rethink to allow pregnant women get jabs needed: ExpertsExperts said it would be best to explain the risks and benefits to pregnant women and allow them to make an informed choice, while recordin...
Indian-American doctors urge Biden administration to release 30 million AstraZeneca vaccines for IndiaThe American Association of Physicians of Indian-Origin (AAPI), the largest representative body of Indian-American doctors in the United St...
Maharashtra piles on cases of coronavirus, total 97 cases in the stateOn Monday morning the state had 89 cases, but by the evening it jumped to 97. The Maharashtra government has already ordered a curfew and h...
IBC to be amended to protect new owners of bankrupt companiesThe Cabinet is likely to approve relevant changes to the three-year-old Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code at the earliest. This will bring muc...
Rolls-Royce staring at fat fine here tooThe Rolls-Royce case would be considered under a new policy that prescribes penalties even in past cases where the so-called 'pre-contract ...
Banks can't get 'blanket relief' from CBI, CVC actions: Raghuram Rajan"I think there has to be some responsibility, but the responsibility has to be for making the appropriate due diligence of taking measured ...
Sikkim to go slow on multimillion cervical cancer vaccine projectThe state has decided to go slow on it putting the already troubled multimillion vaccine deal further deep under uncertainty.
- End AFSPA: Supreme Court’s sharp hint
The government must speedily act to revoke this black law from wherever it is in effect, be it the north-east or Jammu and Kashmir.
- AFSPA is not to protect acts of crime: Omar Abdullah
"AFSPA is for legitimate protection and not for protection of the acts of crime. And that is something we have always maintained," Omar tol...
- CBI rejects RTI applications; no info on corruption
Citing recent exemption given to it by the government, the CBI has refused to make public information about disproportionate asset cases ag...
- Pak arrests another US national, now on suspicion of espionage
As the lingering dispute over immunity for the detained CIA official Raymond Davis continues, Pakistan's law enforcement agencies have arre...
- Davis doesn't enjoy blanket diplomatic immunity: Qureshi
Pakistan's former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Wednesday that the US national Raymond Davis, accused of shooting down two ...
- Records did not support diplomatic status for Davis: Qureshi
Mahmood Qureshi has said that according to official records and experts in the Foreign Office, the US official arrested for gunning down tw...