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UP women’s panel head pushes for cab drivers’ details to be displayed on backs of their seats

This comes months after Babita Chauhan's proposal that male tailors should not be allowed to take measurements of women and male gym or yoga trainers should not train women.

Ex-IPS officers write to Siddaramaiah, say Bengaluru police chief & cops ‘made fall guys’ for stampede

The 30 retired IPS officers say suspended cops, including Commissioner Dayananda, are being victimised while those who contributed to Chinnaswamy stampede were let off the hook.

MHA resumes talks with Kuki-Zo insurgent groups after 2 yrs to discuss ‘way forward’, renewal of SoO pact

Kuki-Zo groups are demanding a ‘revision in ground rules’ of the suspension of operations (SoO) agreement that remains in limbo, it is learnt.

How Bihar is ramping up AB-PMJAY health infra to keep patients from turning to Delhi, Vellore

Bihar spent a third of Ayushman Bharat budget for hospitalisations outside state last year. Efforts on to change that in election year.

Railway services merger caused ‘acute shortage’ of specialised officers, affected ops & safety—Centre

Last yr, Modi govt reversed the 2020 reform. Officers approached Central Administrative Tribunal in March, with the govt now admitting for the first time that its reform was a misstep.

At CM’s conclave chaired by Modi, recognition for Chhattisgarh’s Bastar model

CM Vishnu Deo Sai also made a presentation on the ‘Bastar Model’ during conclave of chief ministers chaired by PM Modi on 25 May.

Once on frontline, now ‘disposable’, Delhi mohalla clinics staff in lurch amid BJP’s arogya mandir push

New Delhi: They came in the dozens. Some in white coats, others in plainclothes. The mohalla clinic staffers gathered outside Delhi Secretariat, staged a...

Long-pending census exercise to be held in 2 phases over next 3 yrs, will include caste data

The last Census of India was conducted in 2011 in two phases. What is new in this exercise is that the enumeration of caste will also take place alongside enumeration of population.

Ladakh gets long-awaited new policies on reservation and domicile, but statehood remains a concern

Since the Centre declared Ladakh a UT without a legislature in 2019, voices in the region had been demanding autonomy, jobs and safeguards for their land and culture.

Elon Musk’s Starlink to get licence to operate in India soon, says Jyotiraditya Scindia

OneWeb & Reliance have received spectrum allocations to begin testing their services, Union Minister of Communications Scindia says in an interview with ThePrint. 

On Camera

India-Pakistan marriage breakdown that British can’t stop crying about

Ever since the Love Is Blind: UK episode dropped, there has been a collective meltdown online over the separation of Pakistan-origin Kal Pasha and Indian-origin Sarover Kaur Aujla.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.