News Snippets

  • Supreme Court pulls up Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA) for its 'obstructionist' approach in clearing files
  • Supreme Court ruled that collegium decisions on selection of judges are not open to judicial scrutiny and cannot be made public under RTI
  • Controversy erupts as Bengal government renames Suhrawardy Avenue in Central Kolkata. Opposition parties and historians say that the government has done an uncle-nephew mistake in the Suhrawardy name but BJP says the entire clan is abominable and the name itself needs to be eradicated from public places
  • Maharashtra deputy CM, Eknath Shinde, says Operation Tiger is successful as 6 rebel Shiv Sena UBT MPs join his party
  • Bengal finance minister Swapan Dasgupta presents his and the BJP government's first Budget focused on growth and doles. Promises to dismantle TMC's extortion and syndicate raj
  • Rebel TMC bloc removes Mamata Banerjee as party supremo, claims 'original' party tag for itself
  • Meta buys into Cred, appoints Cred founder Kunal Shah as head of WhatsApp
  • Core sector grows at just 0.5% in May, the slowest in 7 months
  • IT-department tells employers to analyse mismatch in salary filings, seeks to track bogus claims
  • Stocks have a volatile trading session on Monday: Sensex closes 291 points up and Nifty gains 89 points
  • FIFA World Cup: Iran hold Belgium to 0-0 draw, keep hopes alive in Group G
  • FIFA World Cup: Egypt beat New Zealand 3-1 as Md Salah scores one and sets up another
  • FIFA World Cup: Cabo Verde continue dream run, hold Uruguay to 2-2 draw, score their first World Cup goal
  • Hardik Pandya opts for Performance Block, the new initiative of BCCI Centre of Excellence, to push his comeback bid
  • Chhattisgarh HC rules that if the government does not issue appointment letters to doctors within the time stipulated in the Meidcal Rules, the doctors are released from the service bond and the government cannot demand payment of bond amount or penalty
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