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THE Centre has described the power vested in the Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor to nominate five members to its Legislative Assembly as “discretionary”, and exercisable by him without the aid and advice of the Council of Ministers in the Union Territory.In an affidavit in the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court, the Union Home Ministry has also said that this nomination has “no bearing or co-relation with the formation of the government”. The affidavit was in response to a question framed by the court as to whether Sections 15, 15-A and 15-B of the Jammu & Kashmir Reorganization…

Had England won the final Test at the Oval, it is possible that without facing a single delivery, their No.11 might have emerged as hero. Chris Woakes walking out gingerly, his left arm in a sling hidden under his sweater was already one of the heroic sights of the series; at Old Trafford Rishabh Pant had dragged his fractured foot to the crease. Pant swung Pant-like, and played the shot of the series when he appeared to push Ben Stokes delicately to cover only for the ball to race to the boundary like a tracer bullet, as Ravi Shastri would say. Players…

The State Department seal is seen on the briefing room lectern at the State Department in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 31, 2022. Mandel Ngan/AP hide caption toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AP The State Department seal is seen on the briefing room lectern at the State Department in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 31, 2022. Mandel Ngan/AP The State Department released its long-awaited reports on international human rights Tuesday, and they drastically reduce the types of government repression and abuse that the United States under President Trump deems worthy of criticism. The agency said the “streamlined” human rights reports adhere more closely to…

Just a week ago, Bharti Singh made a vlog about burning her son Gola’s Labubu doll. And now, in her latest vlog, Bharti has found another Labubu and this time, she declared that she is going to bury it hundreds of kilometres away in Lonavala. In her latest vlog, Bharti shared some behind-the-scenes footage from her podcast, where she and her husband Haarsh Limbachiyaa were hosting actor-entrepreneur Raj Kundra, who is the husband of actor Shilpa Shetty. On the set of the podcast, Raj gifted Bharti a Labubu doll as Bharti exclaimed, “Yeh cheez mera peecha hi nahi chod rahi…

One of the major challenges is the retrieval and transportation of organs. Many hospitals have potential donors , but are not designated as Non-Transplant Organ Retrieval Centres (NTORCs), which means they cannot harvest organs or maintain potential donors | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Heart transplantation is a life-saving procedure for patients with end-stage heart failure. While medical advancements have made it a viable long-term solution with high survival outcomes, access to this treatment remains uneven, particularly in east India. The path to democratising heart transplants lies not only in medical capability, but also in streamlining infrastructure, administrative processes, and public…

Marchers rally for home rule in front of the White House in April 1965. At that point, D.C. had been run by presidentially appointed commissioners for nearly a century. National Archives/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption National Archives/Getty Images President Trump is deploying the D.C. National Guard and taking temporary control of the city’s police force, marking a significant escalation in his long-running threats to federalize the nation’s capital. “I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse,” Trump said Monday. “This is Liberation Day in D.C. and we’re going to…

Real Madrid said it “firmly rejects” having a regular-season Spanish league game played in the United States and warned of “a turning point in the world of football.” Villarreal, in contrast, is promising free travel and tickets for season-ticket holders if its match against Barcelona in Miami is approved in what would be a first for the league. The 17th-round match in La Liga would be played at the Hard Rock Stadium. Madrid said on Tuesday it has taken action to keep the Dec. 20 match from happening, claiming it would hurt the “integrity of the competition” and the “legitimacy…

Perplexity AI said the offer, with no equity component, would preserve user choice and ease future competition concerns. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Perplexity AI said it has made a $34.5 billion unsolicited all-cash offer for Alphabet’s Chrome browser, a low but bold bid that would need financing well above the startup’s own valuation. Run by Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity is no stranger to headline-grabbing offers – it made a similar one for TikTok U.S. in January, offering to merge with the popular short-video app to resolve U.S. concerns about TikTok’s Chinese ownership. Buying Chrome would allow the startup to tap…

US President Donald Trump said he would try to get “some territory back for Ukraine” during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday. “Russia’s occupied a big portion of Ukraine. They occupied prime territory. We’re going to try to get some of that territory back for Ukraine,” Trump told a news conference at the White House on Tuesday, describing the meeting as a “feel-out” session aimed at urging Putin to end the war. He warned there could be “some swapping, changes in land” between Russia and Ukraine, though Kyiv has never claimed Russian territories. Trump said…

Amr Bo Shanab/Getty Images With the passage of the big Republican tax and spending bill, the federal government is poised to reduce support for Medicaid and the insurance marketplaces established by the Affordable Care Act. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that these cuts could cause 10 million Americans to lose health insurance by 2034. Lawmakers have justified these cuts as a necessary step to address the bigger budget deficit exacerbated by tax cuts and other spending increases in the big bill. However, that doesn’t capture how these cuts will send costs spilling out around society, to be paid by hospitals,…