MUMBAI: Ahead of themunicipal polls, BJP Mumbai president Ameet Satam , who visited the TOI office Wednesday, said the party was confident of winning over 150 seats in alliance with the Eknath Shindeled Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawarled NCP.He said seat-sharing talks will begin only after the reservation lottery is completed, but their constituency-wise analysis…
BENGALURU: Karnataka HC dismissed Wednesday a petition from Elon Musk’s X Corp against content takedowns, ruling that American free speech standards can’t be transplanted into Indian constitutional thought and no global platform can evade the nation’s laws. It said social media is “a modern amphitheatre of ideas” that cannot be left to “anarchic freedom”.“Regulation is…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday ticked off the Union govt for opposing consideration of the plea of condemned prisoner Balwant Singh Rajoana, convicted of killing then Punjab CM Beant Singh in 1995, for commutation of death sentence. Rajoana has petitioned for reprieve on the ground that he has been on death row for nearly…
NEW DELHI: The apex body for pharmaceutical pricing has extended the ceiling price fixation for orthopaedic knee implants – imposed in 2017 to ensure these are affordable and stop fleecing of patients – till November 15.The latest notification states that representations received from manufacturers and industry associations on the subject are being considered by the…
National Medical Commission (NMC) completes five years on Thursday without having heard a single complaint from a patient, having rejected all of those it has received. This, despite being a body meant to regulate the medical profession in public interest.Hundreds of complaints and appeals filed by patients or their families have been rejected since NMC…
GUWAHATI: Assam police formed Wednesday a nine-member SIT to probe the circumstances surrounding the death of singer Zubeen Garg while swimming in the sea in Singapore on Sept 19. “We will not spare anyone,” CM Himanta Biswa Sarma wrote on X. CID ADG MP Gupta will lead the SIT, which Sarma said will have “full…
NEW DELHI: The largest contract for 97 Tejas Mark-1A fi-ghters, worth Rs 66,500 crore, is all set to be inked with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, though IAF is yet to get even the first such ‘improved’ jet of the 83 ordered earlier for Rs 46,898 crore in Feb 2021.The mega 97-jet contract for the fourth-generation Tejas…
NEW DELHI: Aiming to position India among the global shipbuilding elite, the govt Wednesday approved an umbrella package involving nearly Rs 70,000 crore in investment in the maritime sector, currently dominated by China, South Korea and Japan. Shipping ministry officials said this marks the most significant reform in the sector since Independence.Announcing the decision, I&B…
Volodymyr Zelenskyy (AP photo) TOI Correspondent from Washington: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said in an interview to Fox News that he thinks “India is mostly with us” and that he hopes US President Donald Trump will be able to convince New Delhi to stop purchasing Russian oil. “Yes, we have these questions with energy,…
NEW DELHI: The central govt brass is of the opinion that Wednesday’s violence in Ladakh was premeditated and deliberate, and not a natural outburst.The violence, which left four people dead, came even as Centre had already scheduled a meeting of the high-powered committee on Oct 6 with the Apex Body, Leh (ABL) and Kargil Democratic…
