India

NEW DELHI: Fresh allegations of massive cybersecurity lapses, data exposure and administrative failures have deepened the controversy surrounding CBSE’s On Screen Marking (OSM) system, with activists now approaching National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) for urgent intervention to protect students’ educational rights, amid continuing disrupti-ons in the board’s post-exam processes.The latest row erupted after independent developers…

NEW DELHI: India and Australia on Monday underscored the importance of “freedom of navigation, overflight and unimpeded maritime trade” amid disruptions in energy supply chains following the West Asia crisis, and also advocated for a “free, open, peaceful, stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific” at a time China is increasing its assertiveness in the region.During the second…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has held that a rape survivor should not be harassed with repeated calls to appear in court during trial proceedings for cross examination. A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Satish Chandra Sharma quashed an order passed by Tripura HC which had allowed the accused’s plea to recall the survivor…

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday refused to grant urgent hearing to a PIL seeking computer-based test (CBT) for the June 21 re-examination of NEET-UG, which was held nationwide on May 3 but was scrapped following allegations of paper leak.A partial-working day bench of Justices P S Narasimha and Aravind Kumar told the petitioner, RJD…

NEW DELHI: In a landmark ruling, Delhi HC has recognised the “right to be forgotten” as an “integral facet” of the right to privacy, saying individuals cannot be condemned to suffer harm to their reputation merely because information about them remains indefinitely available in the digital domain.HC said search engines such as Google cannot be…

NEW DELHI: India and US have finalised most elements of the legal text of the first tranche of the bilateral trade agreement, with negotiations now focused on “commas and full stops”, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said Monday, but the treaty, in the works for 15 months, will only be sealed after there is…

NEW DELHI: The Delhi government has transferred more than 40 personnel associated with the Central Procurement Agency (CPA) as part of a restructuring exercise aimed at improving efficiency and transparency in the health sector, according to an official statement.The CPA, which functions under the department of health and family welfare, is responsible for the procurement…

NEW DELHI: India estimates a lower fertiliser consumption during the Kharif sowing season in the light of IMD’s forecast of below normal monsoon, a top govt official said on Monday, adding the demand for urea is now estimated at 190 lakh tonnes against the earlier projection of 194 lakh tonnes.The demand of Diammonium Phosphate (DAP)…

SRINAGAR: Fresh differences surfaced Monday over negotiations on Ladakh’s political future after Leh Apex Body (LAB) accused Centre of omitting key provisions from a draft record of May 22 talks and warned of a renewed agitation, including hunger strikes.LAB member and environmentalist Sonam Wangchuk said representatives had agreed during talks with Union home ministry’s sub-committee…

KULGAM: The J&K administration is planning to establish rehabilitation centres across the state to help recovering addicts reintegrate into society, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said Monday as he led the “Drug-Free J&K Padyatra” in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district.Talking to the TOI on the sidelines of the event, Sinha said the campaign has significantly disrupted drug…