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File photo: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant CHANDIGARH: In a significant push for modernising the country’s prison ecosystem, CJI Surya Kant has advocated bold, tech-integrated reforms, ranging from digital-skills training to UK-style inmate-monitoring systems, aimed at transforming prisons from punitive spaces into “engines of reintegration”.Highlighting the need to align prison training with the “economy…

In repeated burglary cakewalks, thieves have been raiding a Nadiad confectionery, Krishna Dairy Products, and have had criminally sweet success 10 times in nine years. The shop’s owner, Mukesh Pandit, 44, said the burglars seem to treat money only as a light dessert. “Most of the time, thieves took some cash but loads of mithai…

NEW DELHI: A DTC bus driver was dragged from his vehicle and beaten to death allegedly by a group of wedding guests in Aman Vihar late Saturday in a brutal burst of road rage. Police have arrested one of the suspects, Rahul, while three are on the run. A video on social media shows the…

Goa nightclub fire tragedy PANAJI: Fifteen minutes. That’s all it took for Bhavana Joshi to lose her husband and three sisters inside a nightclub that was supposed to crown a holiday in Goa with music and laughter for the family of five from Ghaziabad and Delhi. Flames tore through the club moments after they had…

NEW DELHI: Did IndiGo “waste time” till late October lobbying DGCA to either get exemption from certain rules in the new flight duty time limitation (FDTL) norms or getting its implementation deferred beyond the November 1 deadline, instead of preparing for it?The four-member government panel probing the IndiGo’s flight crisis will examine this, along with…

Charred remains of the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub after a fire breaks out, claiming the lives of 25 people, in Arpora. (Picture credit: ANI) PANAJI: The Birch by Romeo Lane had been dancing with danger for long.The inferno was the result of a critical failure in “fire prevention engineering, regulatory compliance, and life safety…

File photo: Congress MP Manish Tewari (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Congress MP Manish Tewari has introduced a private member’s bill in Lok Sabha that seeks to allow parliamentarians to take an independent line in voting on bills and motions other than those affecting govt’s stability. This he sees as a way of promoting good…

Goa nightclub inferno (Picture credit: PTI) PANAJI: Tragedy struck Goa’s popular after-hours party scene just before midnight on Saturday, killing 25 people – five of them tourists – and injuring six inside a nightclub in Arpora that turned into a fireball within seconds of electric firecrackers hitting the wooden ceiling of the first floor as…

File photo: Defense minister Rajnath Singh (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Inaugurating 125 border infrastructure projects, including the key Shyok tunnel in Ladakh, defence minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said they will not only ensure faster mobility of troops & weapons, but also boost tourism, employment & stronger faith in democracy among people living in…

Operations could return to normal by Dec 10. IndiGo is expected to operate 1,650 flights on Sunday, well below the pre-crisis level of 2,200 NEW DELHI: IndiGo operations could return to normal by Wednesday (December 10) and the airline is expected to operate 1,650 flights on Sunday, but well below the pre-crisis level of 2,200…