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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
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Topic: vacancies

Indian Railways has 2.5 lakh-plus posts lying vacant, highest in northern zone, govt tells RS

Vacancies are filled up primarily by placement of indents by Railways with recruitment agencies as per operational requirements, Ashwini Vaishnaw informs Upper House of Parliament.

Indian military faces staggering shortfall of 11,266 young officers, Modi govt tells Lok Sabha

MoD is considering making 'short service entry more attractive' to mitigate shortage, clarified that available strength is adequate to meet current operational requirements.

DU’s 900 faculty vacancies highest among India’s central universities, govt tells Parliament

Govt data shows central universities have 6,549 vacant faculty positions. Allahabad University has 622, and Banaras Hindu University has 532 vacant faculty positions. 

CJI blames judicial vacancies for cases backlog, Rijiju promises to bring down pendency in 2 yrs

Speaking at the ‘18th All India Legal Services Authorities Meet’ in Jaipur, CJI Ramana says that in the current criminal justice system 'process becomes punishment'.

‘Sorry state of affairs’ — Supreme Court seeks Centre’s reply on vacancies in tribunals

The SC bench comprising CJI Ramana directed Centre to apprise it about the steps taken to fill up the vacancies in 10 days and said it suspects lobbies working in this regard.

CJI Ramana wants diversity in Indian judiciary but several reasons stand in the way

While examining diversity across police, judiciary, prisons and legal aid, the India Justice Report 2020 points out that data for diversity among judges remains unavailable.

India’s ‘headless PSU’ problem — top posts at 15 PSUs are vacant, some since 2017-18

The Public Enterprises Selection Board, tasked with advising the government on such appointments, has itself been headless for more than six months.

16 names cleared by SC collegium for HC judge posts stuck with govt, 6 of them since 2019

CJI-led Supreme Court bench Wednesday voiced its concern over delay on the government’s part in acting on the apex court collegium’s decisions for judicial appointments.

Supreme Court concerned about vacancies in central, state information commissions

Says 'strict view' will be taken if Centre or the seven states fail to provide a time schedule for filling up the vacancies.

UPSC notifies lowest number of vacancies in 10 years. Is this the Modi effect at play?

Modi had promised a leaner bureaucracy under his mantra of ‘minimum government, maximum governance’. Since 2014, vacancies have declined from 1,291 to 782.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.