Government proposes stricter anti-paper leak law, faster investigation and trials | India News

Government proposes stricter anti-paper leak laws to safeguard against leaks NEW DELHI: Tightening the noose around individuals, service providers and organised gangs involved in paper leaks, the Centre has proposed longer jail terms, steeper fines, and time-bound investigation and disposal of trials and appeals.According to the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill circulated…

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NASA’s New Horizons travelled 3 billion miles over 9 years to reach Pluto – but it was moving too fast to stop when it arrived

Representative image of Pluto If you’ve ever waited years for something important – a degree, a promotion, a long journey – you know how strange it feels when the defining moment itself is over in what seems like an instant. That’s exactly what happened with NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto. Engineers and scientists spent…

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30 yrs after acquittal, Cal HC sends ex-cop to 3-yr jail for bigamy, says paying compensation not enough | Kolkata News

Kolkata: Calcutta High Court has overturned an almost 30-year-old acquittal in a case of bigamy and directed a 75-year-old former policeman to serve three years in prison and pay Rs 1 lakh as compensation to his second wife.The bench of justices Rajasekhar Mantha and Ananya Bandopadhyay, which delivered the ruling on Friday, observed that the…

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SC row fallout: From ‘corruption’ to PILs — NCERT rewrites judiciary lesson | India News

NEW DELHI: Put on the back foot by a Supreme Court intervention, NCERT on Tuesday has released the revised Part 2 of its Class 8 Social Science textbook with the controversial chapter on judiciary stripped of its earlier critical framing and recast as a more conventional civics lesson on justice, constitutional remedies, courts, tribunals and…

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Karnataka horror: Man gets life term for killing brother who discovered affair with his wife | Bengaluru News

According to the prosecution, Ravichandra, a mason, was strangled to death by his elder brother Raja Naik and his wife, Savitri Bai. TUMAKURU: A web of illicit passion, betrayal and a shallow grave beneath an unfinished house has culminated in a life sentence for a man convicted of murdering his younger brother, with DNA evidence…

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