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Autopsy of five bodies of missing six from Manipur done; ‘last’ one found floating in Assam – Times of India

SILCHAR: The postmortem examination of five bodies of the six missing people of Manipur's Jiribam district have been completed at a state-run hospital in Assam's Silchar town, officials said on Monday. Another body of a woman, probably that of the sixth missing person, was found floating in the Barak river in Cachar district of Assam, which shares border with Jiribam. Six people - three women and three children - belonging to the Meitei community had gone missing from a relief camp in Jiribam after a gunfight between security forces and suspected Kuki-Zo militants that resulted in the deaths of 10 insurgents on November 11. Six bodies were found in Jiri river in Jiribam and Barak river in Cachar over the last few days. All of them were brought to Silchar Medical College and Hospital (SMCH)...
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Manipur as a case for imposing Article 356

The state of Manipur reflects a classic case of the failure of the constitutional machinery, necessitating invocation of Article 356 by the President of India. The President need not wait for the report from the Governor because, under this Article, the President can act if, “otherwise”, satisfied that a situation has arisen in which the government of that State cannot be carried on in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution. In Manipur, the unprecedented and horrific violence that erupted in May 2023, continues unabated.B.R. Ambedkar, defining this extraordinary provision to the Constituent Assembly, on August 3, 1949 said, “I think I can well begin by reminding the House that it has been agreed by the House, where we were considering the general principles of the Constitution,...
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SC collegium picks Madras high court judge as Chief Justice of Manipur high court | India News – Times of India

CHENNAI: The Supreme Court collegium on Monday recommended the elevation of Justice D Krishnakumar, a senior judge in Madras high court, as the Chief Justice of Manipur high court.Justice Krishnakumar was appointed as the judge of Madras high court on April 7, 2016, and is now set to retire on May 21, 2025. He is the senior-most puisne judge in his parent high court and belongs to a backward community.Before his elevation as a judge of high court, he had extensive practice in civil, constitutional, and service matters, with specialisation in constitutional law.Chief Justice of Manipur high court, Justice Siddharth Mridul, is scheduled to retire on November 21. The collegium said it has proposed to appoint Justice Krishnakumar as the chief justice of Manipur high court with effect from the ...
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No ‘X factor’ — reconciling freedom and accountability

‘There is an organic relationship between a vibrant democracy and a credible information ecology’  | Photo Credit: REUTERS It is important to understand that the freedom of speech is not a laissez-faire act where anything goes, but a democratically enabling idea that shuns censorship and the curbing of ideas being debated in the public sphere. Recently, the British media outlet, The Guardian, took a decision to stop posting on the social media platform X( formerly Twitter), from its official handles. The British legacy media organisation issued a statement that needs to be read carefully. It read: “This is something we have been considering for a while given the often-disturbing content promoted or found on...
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MAGA celebrates ‘Trump effect’ in Miss Universe contest: ‘Had Kamala won…’ – Times of India

Victoria Kjaer Theilvig of Denmark won the Miss Universe title this year. Victoria Kjaer Theilvig of Denmark won the 73rd Miss Universe title which MAGA supporters celebrated and called as the Trump effect. Their logic is: had Kamala Harris won the election, a '40-year-old transgender' would have been given the title. "Biological & objectively attractive women are allowed to win beauty pageants again. WE ARE SO BACK," Donald Trump Jr posted Monday making it official that MAGA is taking credit over it.“Wokeness is officially over. This is the new Miss Universe,” one X user wrote."This is Miss Denmark, who was just crowned Miss Universe. It’s the Trump Effect in action. Had Kamala won, the prize would’ve gone to a 40 year old transgender," one wrote."The fact that we ever had to say "Loo...
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End logjam for EPFO pensioners

Image for representation. | Photo Credit: The Hindu A recent official announcement about the successful pilot run of the new Centralised Pension Payments System (CPPS) under the Employees’ Pension Scheme, 1995, comes at a time when lakhs of members of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) and pensioners have been waiting to hear about their applications for pension on higher wages.Some questions remain The launch of the CPPS is undoubtedly a relief to new pensioners. They will not be required to open an account in specified banks just to receive their monthly entitlement. Under the new system that will come into force from January 1 across the country, pensioners can collect their pension from a...
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Australia assistant coach Daniel Vettori to leave Perth Test midway for IPL auction

“Dan will complete the final preparation for the first Test before attending the IPL auction. He will then be with the team for the remainder of the Border Gavaskar Trophy,” said a spokesperson for the Australian team. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Australia's assistant coach Daniel Vettori will be leaving his duties midway through the opening Test against India in Perth to attend the IPL mega auction over the weekend.The IPL auction will be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on November 24-25, clashing with the Perth Test scheduled for November 22, 2024.Besides being Australia’s assistant coach, the 45-year-old is also the head coach of IPL franchise SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH).“We are very supportive of Dan’s role as He...
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A sign of policy paralysis in Maharashtra

Image for representation | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Politics in Maharashtra is at a crossroads where the reformist agenda of electoral politics has been taken over by monetary manipulations through the state apparatus. Though monetary considerations for votes are not new in politics, they were not structurally embedded in the state policy. Distribution of cash was a purely political phenomenon. The freebie culture routed through the state has diluted the policy process. In earlier decades, when caste issues predominantly dominated electoral politics, certain political parties even criticised reservations — a policy of affirmative action — as a freebie. Distribution of freebies was considered a...
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Ex-PSC chief of Chhattisgarh arrested in Rs 45 lakh bribe case | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: CBI on Monday arrested Taman Singh Sonwani, former chairman of Chhattisgarh Public Service Commission, for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 45 lakh from the director of a Raipur-based steel company for ensuring selection of latter's son and daughter-in-law as deputy collectors.CBI also arrested Shravan Kumar Goyal, director of Bajrang Power & Ispat Ltd, who allegedly paid the bribe through the Gramin Vikas Samiti, where Sonwani's relatives were members, in two installments of Rs 20 lakh and Rs 25 lakh. The case pertains to complaints of irregularities in the selection of candidates for deputy collectors, DSPs, and other senior posts. CBI had registered an FIR against Sonwani and others in July this year on a reference from Chhattisgarh govt dated February 16. The complaint, wh...
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Vivek Ramaswamy says govt staff are ‘in tears’ in prospect of 5 days work – Times of India

Vivek Ramaswamy hinted that DOGE may take a leaf out of how Argentina cut cost. A day after Vivek Ramaswamy revealed that his Department of Government Efficiency is looking to ax complete agencies which are not contributing to the country's development but incurring costs on the government, the new DOGE co-chief said the government staff are teras in the prospect of being asked to return to the office five days per week. "I'm hearing via allies that federal government unions are scrambling to update their collective bargaining agreements to avoid getting fired. The prospect of being asked to return to the office 5 days per week like most working Americans apparently has them 'in tears'," Ramaswamy posted on X.Conservative political activist Charlie Kirk also made a post claiming that 85 pe...
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Corrections and Clarifications — November 19, 2024

“The river Godavari has the longest rail-cum-road bridge”, and not “bride”, as mentioned in the heading (Opinion page, November 18, 2024, ‘From The Archives, Fifty Years Ago – November 18, 1974’). Published - November 19, 2024 12:32 am ISTSource link
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Twin negligence: The Hindu Editorial on the Jhansi hospital fire

The fire in the neonatal intensive care unit of the Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College in Jhansi district, Uttar Pradesh, where 10 newborns died on November 15 night, underscores the fatal intersection of severely neglected sectors in government budgeting and planning — health care and fire safety. There was an eerily similar incident in May this year, in a hospital in east Delhi. The neonatal care unit in Jhansi was operating at almost three times its capacity — there were 49 babies for incubators meant only for 18. Hospital staff have said that this number sometimes goes up to 60. This must not surprise given that in 2021, the doctor-patient ratio in U.P. was 1: 2,158. A point to be noted is that India’s doctor-patient ratio for 2024 is 1:836, which is well within the World Health Organi...
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Video | JNPA Chairperson Unmesh Sharad Wagh Highlights Importance Of Vardhvan Port Being A Green Port

At the Sagarmanthan: The Great Oceans Dialogue, Unmesh Sharad Wagh, Chairperson of the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA), discussed the Vardhvan port's green initiatives. He emphasized that the new Vardhvan Port in Maharashtra will be carbon-neutral from the outset. With ships turning off engines while docked, tugboats running on green fuel, and electricity sourced from renewable energy, the port fully aligns with the Prime Minister's sustainability goals.Source link
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Letters to The Editor — November 19, 2024

The state of ManipurEver since May 2023, Manipur has been burning. The State government has been unable to gain control perhaps due to the complex issues involved. It is surprising that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has still not visited the State. Meanwhile, the Union government should do everything within its power to defuse the situation. Confidence-building measures among the affected people should be carried out. Govardhana Myneedu, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh In the many months since Manipur has been roiled by ethnic conflict, the State government’s actions have been restricted to ‘empty rhetoric, blaming outsiders, imposing Internet bans and issuing vague promises of dialogue’. The Centre’s moves to bring the warring communities to the negotiating table too have not inspir...
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Rampant encroachments on footpaths by vendors hit pedestrian movement

Pedestrians are facing significant difficulties due to the growing number of pushcart vendors along the Nadakkavu-Pavangad stretch of the Kozhikode-Kannur road. | Photo Credit: K. Ragesh Encroachment on footpaths and wayside spaces for illegal sales ventures is increasingly crippling the safe movement of pedestrians in many prime locations of Kozhikode city. The illegal extension of designated street vending spaces and the encroachment of public parking areas for storage purposes are also rampant, due to poor enforcement and a lack of regular checks. Although police had earlier zeroed in on several pushcart traders occupying prime spots near the Kozhikode Medical College, Nadakkavu, and Palayam Junction, no su...
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Delhi Air Pollution Takes Centre Stage At COP29

Delhi's hazardous air quality was a key focus at COP29, as experts warned about the health risks of air pollution and called for immediate global action. Aarti Khosla, Director of Climate Trends, said that Delhi’s Air Quality Index (AQI) had reached dangerous levels, with some areas recording particulate pollution above 1,000 microgram per cubic metre. “Pollution comes from many sources like black carbon, ozone, burning fossil fuels, and farm fires. We need solutions that tackle all of these,” she said. Khosla also explained that low wind speeds during the La Niña weather pattern are trapping pollutants in the air, making the situation worse. “While we discuss major global issues, millions of people’s health is at risk. We must act fast,” she said. Courtney Howard, Vice-Chair of the Global...
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Delhi air pollution takes centre stage at COP29

Baku (Azerbaijan), Nov 18 (PTI): Delhi's hazardous air quality was a key focus at COP29, as experts warned about the health risks of air pollution and called for immediate global action.Aarti Khosla, Director of Climate Trends, sais that Delhi’s Air Quality Index (AQI) had reached dangerous levels, with some areas recording particulate pollution above 1,000 microgram per cubic metre. “Pollution comes from many sources like black carbon, ozone, burning fossil fuels, and farm fires. We need solutions that tackle all of these,” she said.Khosla also explained that low wind speeds during the La Niña weather pattern are trapping pollutants in the air, making the situation worse. “While we discuss major global issues, millions of people’s health is at risk. We must act fast,” she said.Courtney Ho...
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This time for Africa: The Hindu Editorial on India, Africa and the Global South

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Nigeria, and his ongoing tours to Brazil, for the G-20, and Guyana, are important not only for ties with each of these countries but also significant as a statement on India’s commitment to the Global South. In the Abuja visit, the first after then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s 2007 visit, where the two countries declared a Strategic Partnership, Mr. Modi and Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu reaffirmed ties in areas including defence cooperation. Mr. Modi identified terrorism, separatism, piracy and drug trafficking as challenges for the two countries to work together on. Receiving Nigeria’s ‘the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger’, Mr. Modi, the second foreign dignitary to receive the distinction, dedicated the award to the people of In...
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Horoscope Today, November 19, 2024: Read your today’s astrological predictions – Times of India

Read today's horoscope, November 19, 2024. Today we'll be taking a closer look at what the stars have in store for each of the 12 zodiac signs. Our astrologer has analyzed the movements of the planets and the alignment of the stars to bring you the most accurate and up-to-date horoscope predictions for the day ahead. Whether you're looking for guidance on love, career, or simply a heads up on what to expect, this has got you covered. Let's dive in to see what the cosmos have in store for you today.AriesToday, you may feel some internal weakness, and there is a chance of major health issues reoccurring. You may find it hard to enjoy both domestic and professional life. Running projects could come to an unexpected halt, which may upset you. It’s advised to drive carefully. The blessings of y...
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