Crisis contractor for OpenAI, Anthropic eyes a move to combat extremismOpenAI was threatened with intervention by the Canadian government in February after revealing a person who carried out a deadly school sho...
14 Apr, 2026, 07.11 AM IST
Amit Shah predicts BJP government in Bengal, warns of action against ‘goons’Union Home Minister Amit Shah declared a double engine government will be formed in Bengal on May 5. He warned Trinamool Congress goons to ...
13 Apr, 2026, 01.22 PM IST
Crisis contractor for OpenAI, Anthropic eyes a move to combat extremismThroughLine, a startup hired in recent years by ChatGPT owner OpenAI as well as rivals Anthropic and Google, to redirect users to crisis su...
13 Apr, 2026, 10.50 AM IST
Bengal Elections: PM Modi slams state govt over Malda ‘hostage’ row, vows fear-free pollsPrime Minister Narendra Modi condemned the Malda incident where judicial officers were held hostage. He accused the Trinamool Congress of a...
06 Apr, 2026, 12.01 AM IST
Schedule 3 drugs explained: What Trump’s executive order means for weed reclassificationSchedule 3 drugs: President Trump signed an executive order to reclassify marijuana to Schedule III, aiming to expand medical research into...
19 Dec, 2025, 11.14 PM IST
High times in Thailand: New weed laws draw tourists from across AsiaMost Asian nations have strict drug laws with harsh penalties, and Thailand’s de facto legalization of marijuana last year has brought a wa...
13 Jul, 2023, 09.18 AM IST
Supreme Court asks Centre to consider publicising info about CAA to curb circulation of fake newsA bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde, which decided to examine the constitutional validity of the CAA, took note of BJP leader and law...
18 Dec, 2019, 06.34 PM IST
HC declines to order linking of FB, Twitter, WhatsApp accounts with Aadhaar, PANA bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar said linking of accounts with social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook a...
09 Dec, 2019, 06.56 PM IST
Modi government repeals 1,159 obsolete laws within two yearsDuring the Budget session, Rajya Sabha passed two such bills, repealing 1,053 Acts while many old Acts had been incorporated in new legisla...
19 May, 2016, 11.58 AM IST
Sadananda Gowda to focus on bringing down litigation, junking obsolete lawsThe Modi government has already proposed deletion of 36 obsolete laws and has identified 287 others to take up in the winter session of Par...
11 Nov, 2014, 11.53 AM IST
Mechanism needed to reduce executive-judiciary friction: Law Minister D V Sadananda GowdaLaw Minister D V Sadananda Gowda also said reducing number of litigations by government agencies & weeding out obsolete laws would be his p...
10 Nov, 2014, 06.34 PM IST
Records can't be weeded out if RTI application is pending: CICTaking a stern view of the varsity's explanation, Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu issued a show cause notice to the university a...
26 Oct, 2014, 11.21 AM IST
Government to weed out over 1,000 archaic lawsThe Law Commission has been of the opinion that at least 350 laws need to be immediately revoked. It has already identified at least 200 su...
14 Oct, 2014, 12.04 PM IST
Fresh bill to be introduced to weed out archaic laws: Ravi Shankar PrasadThe newly constituted Committee will examine all Acts recommended to be repealed by the Committee on Review of Administrative Laws.
23 Sep, 2014, 04.37 PM IST
Repeal of obsolete laws: Law panel says ministries not helpingModi has expressed concern that out of the 1382 Acts recommended for repeal by that Committee, only 415 have been repealed so far.
09 Sep, 2014, 04.52 PM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new committee to identify and phase out obsolete lawsThe panel will examine all Acts recommended for repeal by the Committee on Review of Administrative Laws appointed in 1998 by the Vajpayee ...
28 Aug, 2014, 11.31 AM IST
Prime Minister sets up committee to identify 'obsolete' lawsThe committee will submit its report in three months, and on the basis of its recommendations a bill will be introduced in Parliament.
27 Aug, 2014, 09.56 PM IST