To reshape State’s workforce pipeline, government will allocate ₹5,000 crore to streamline its fragmented skilling initiatives spread across various departments and entities and also train 30 lakh beneficiaries over the next seven years
Subroto Bagchi condemns the pervasive middle-class habit of labelling household helps as ‘servant maids’ and laments the persistent stigmas that treat vocational institutions as destinations only for youth who have ‘gone astray’
Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan and Excise Minister M. Liju blame the LDF government for the 'liberal granting' of bar licences by ceding the authority to lower-level excise officials, possibly to evade political responsibility; CPI(M) State Secretariat member and former Excise Minister M.B. Rajesh accuses Satheesan and Liju of 'lying' to save face, and the LDF had granted liquor licences only with the Minister’s sanction
BRICS can turn fragmented carbon markets into a coordinated trading framework
Passion Plus, Glamour, Splendor and Pulsar among the most common models in the list, vehicles parked at Moinabad police station grounds
Recent restrictions on protesters at Jantar Mantar and other public spaces undermine the historical relationship between civic arenas and democratic citizenship
In Bachan Singh, the apex court upheld the death penalty but laid down guidelines for judicial discretion; in Manoj v. State of Madhya Pradesh, it prescribed ‘practical guidelines’, including the submission of mental health evaluations and custody conduct reports of the accused
The seized items included 2,098 kg of Gopal Sweet Barfi, 598 kg of Nandi Indian Dessert, 538 kg of Shree Bansidhar Sweet Halwa, 448 kg of Shree Gokul Traditional Sweets, 268 kg of Nandi Indian Sweet Halwa and 52 kg of Shree Gokul Halwa
Rejecting the argument that the victim was a history-sheeter, the court says his antecedents cannot justify vengeance or mob justice