VK News Today https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Atif Aslam tells Indian fans ‘I miss you guys’ after 10-year ban; says restrictions helped him discover himself: ‘I thank those who banned me’ Daily Nadi Horoscope for Virgo (12th August 2026): Don’t Let a Sudden Career Shift Disturb a Valuable Alliance Book three-nightstay in Abu Dhabi, get UAE visa free Besides, govt has decided to fix the retirement age of chairperson of tribunals at 70, with members to retire at 67, unless they complete their five-year terms NEW DELHI: Tribunal Reforms Bill, piloted by govt in Parliament, is seen as a move that reinforces the constitutional position in appointments: ensuring primacy of the judiciary in deciding top positions. At the same time, it seeks to maintain a three-tier architecture between the tribunal, the secretariat and the administrative ministry with clear roles mapped out for each.In the bill — passed by RS Tuesday and LS Monday — govt has sought to ensure the independence of National Tribunals Commission (NTC) that will supervise the appointment, functioning, discipline and administrative needs of tribunals. To be headed by a retired judge of the Supreme Court or chief justice of a high court, the proposed NTC will have two judicial members drawn from among retired HC judges apart from two technical members. The chairperson and judicial members will be appointed by govt in consultation with the CJI.The commission, through its search and selection committee, has been tasked to streamline selection of chairpersons and members of tribunals. Unlike the current system, where a panel of names is sent, the committee will recommend a single name for each vacancy, along with a waiting list. Strict timelines have been proposed for recommending names to govt and for the Centre to approve them. Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesIt addresses a constant complaint that ministries have in appointments getting delayed.Besides, govt has decided to fix the retirement age of chairperson of tribunals at 70 years, with members to retire at 67, unless they complete their five-year terms.The commission will be assisted by a secretariat with the administrative ministry having no role in either advertising for the post or scrutinising the candidates. The ministry concerned will merely forward inputs to the secretariat on the candidate and Intelligence Bureau will provide its reports. Officials argued that this will end any possible conflict of interest that the ministry concerned will have as a litigant.Get the latest India News and Live updates. 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Doctor explains how to walk smarter, not just longer, for better fat-loss resultsHow to walk smart to reduce thigh fat5 stylish ways to recycle your old denim jeans instead of throwing them away123Hot PicksMumbai rainNEET PG city intimation slipSlovenia Indian embassyJharkhand protestWeather AhmedabadAjit DovalIran warDelhi rainUP scholarshipTop TrendingCJPGurgaon Businessman Wife ArrestBengaluru Missing TechieBlinkit MumbaiHarbhajan SinghPune-Bengaluru Highway AccidentTelangana AccidentAbhijeet DipkeWeather TomorrowShakeel Noorani Vi$a fraud: Andhra man fakes university degree, inflates bank balance with borrowed funds Phuket flight incident pushes DGCA to seekways to make dope rules more stringent NEW DELHI: Trouble mounted for the pilot-in-command (PIC) of last Tuesday’s badly rattled Phuket-Delhi Air India flight after it emerged that he had failed the confirmatory dope test and was found to have consumed marijuana. Besides, the cabin crew of the flight, AI 2379, has filed a complaint with the airline against the “high” PIC’s onboard behaviour.The pilot also faces criminal action beyond DGCA rules — which require such a pilot to be sent for de-addiction and allow him to resume flying after being certified drug-free.The young co-pilot had to single-handedly steady the aircraft and then land it safely at the destination.An alarmed civil aviation ministry summoned AI’s outgoing CEO Campbell Wilson to express concern about this incident and find out how the airline was dealing with the issue and review its plan to come out of its prolonged period of operational turbulence.Airbus A320 had momentarily gone into ‘negative G’ situationThe incident that has raised questions over the robustness of the Indian system has also pushed DGCA to explore ways to make dope test rules more stringent after the incident that left 20 passengers and four cabin crew members injured.“Certain records, statements, medical information and other material collected during the investigation are protected and confidential in accordance with the applicable investigation framework…. AAIB (Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau) requests all concerned to respect the investigation process and refrain from drawing conclusions… AAIB will conduct a thorough investigation covering all material facts and relevant evidence and will issue its preliminary findings,” the aviation ministry said in a statement while responding to queries on the confirmatory test.What happened on boardMultiple sources told TOI that the PIC was acting under the influence of psychoactive substances. “He was often sitting on the floor of the flight deck and tried to smoke out. Cabin crew had to help him back to his seat. He was not in full control of himself. He was unable to walk properly after exiting the aircraft,” said a person in the know. AI did not comment on the cabin crew’s alleged complaints.The probe will determine whether the aircraft had a sudden loss of altitude due to a series of multiple and rare technical snags, which have been reported by the co-pilot in his report, or it was caused by actions of the PIC.When the aircraft experienced loss of altitude, the PIC is learnt to have been standing and leaning behind the co-pilot’s seat. The Airbus A320 had momentarily gone into a “negative G” situation when the PIC and things in the cockpit floated up and those who were not wearing seat belts got injured in the passenger cabin.The cabin crew have given a report to AI. The co-pilot may have informed the airline’s ground control about the pilot’s behaviour due to which the unusual step of subjecting the cockpit crew to a drug test — instead of just breath analyser tests — was taken.“AAIB is engaged in systematic collection, preservation and examination of all relevant technical, operational, medical and human-factor evidence,” the govt said.What govt is doingWhile DGCA is reviewing its rule titled “procedure for examination of aviation personnel for consumption of psychoactive substances”, India’s senior-most pilots sought a differentiation between a pilot testing positive after having a medication for sleeping or anxiety and those who are found to have consumed “true” psychoactive substances.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesAirlines have a list of medicines that need to be avoided some hours before flight as they can cause drowsiness.What it means for AIMassive financial losses apart, the airline’s operations and training are again under a cloud, just when it was trying to regain public faith following the Ahmedabad crash in June 2025.While Tatas and partner Singapore Airlines have pumped in thousands of crores and there have been significant cosmetic improvements, it is still looking for leadership and professional management that can usher in the culture required to fly it out of turbulence.Get the latest India News and Live updates. 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NEW DELHI: With nearly 34 lakh appeals pending adjudication before SIR appellate tribunals against deletion of voters’ names in West Bengal, Supreme Court Tuesday decided to take stock of their performance and suggested they speed up their work, saying the process cannot be unending, even though it was unwilling to set a deadline for decision on appeals.“The process cannot be so slow that the next assembly elections would be due by the time the appeals are decided,” said CJI Surya Kant responding to a petition complaining about the slow rate of disposal of appeals by those whose names were deleted from electoral rolls during their Special Intensive Revision (SIR).Petitioner and Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, through senior advocate Rauf Rahim said the progress in deciding appeals by the tribunals, set up on SC orders, is painfully slow and requires impetus to speed up disposal rate. Chowdhury said names of lakhs of poor people have been deleted from the voter list in Murshidabad and they do not have the wherewithal to approach SC.A bench of CJI Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana said, “These tribunals were constituted on our orders. A substantial time has elapsed since they started working. We must consider their performance keeping in mind the pendency and disposals. Immediate concern is to take stock.”“Once we get the statistics, we would be able to provide it with guidance and information technology to help speed up the process,” Justice Bagchi said. The bench asked Election Commisson to give details of pendency and disposals by Aug 25, the next date of hearing.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesWhen Rahim said appeals are required to be decided early as WB govt has begun depriving deleted voters of benefits of welfare schemes, the bench said this is altogether a separate cause of action which should be adjudicated by Calcutta High Court. “If you expand the scope of this petition, we will send it to HC,” it said and declined to fix a timeline for disposal of appeals.Chowdhury said, “Several people whose names are deleted from voter lists have made appeal before the tribunals and are waiting for the fate of their cases. But the process and infrastructure of the tribunals is not sufficient for early disposal of such a huge number of appeals after giving proper opportunity of hearing.”Get the latest India News and Live updates. 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Doctor explains how to walk smarter, not just longer, for better fat-loss resultsHow to walk smart to reduce thigh fat5 stylish ways to recycle your old denim jeans instead of throwing them away123Hot PicksMumbai rainNEET PG city intimation slipSlovenia Indian embassyJharkhand protestWeather AhmedabadAjit DovalIran warDelhi rainUP scholarshipTop TrendingCJPGurgaon Businessman Wife ArrestBengaluru Missing TechieBlinkit MumbaiHarbhajan SinghPune-Bengaluru Highway AccidentTelangana AccidentAbhijeet DipkeWeather TomorrowShakeel Noorani Daily Nadi Horoscope for Cancer (12th August 2026): Don’t Disrupt Your Inner Balance ‘Drama at this age is embarrassing’: Trisha Krishnan’s cryptic posts after Udhayanidhi row Daily Nadi Horoscope for Gemini (12th August 2026): Don’t Let Anger Turn a Money Question into a Family Divide Delhi slum rehab: New bill in Assembly may bring post-2006 settlements into redevelopment net Row erupts over plans to convert listed pub in UK into mosque Quote of the day by Peter Thiel: ‘First mover advantage is a trap, it’s much better to be the last mover’ Additional personnel from the Army, CRPF and police, along with reinforcements, were rushed to the area JAMMU: Security forces launched joint cordon-and-search operations in J&K’s Doda and Poonch districts on being alerted about the sighting of terror suspects, officials said Tuesday.Cordon-and-search operations were initiated in Doda’s upper reaches after some locals captured a video of four suspected ultras trekking along Ramtund Peak and informed authorities late Monday afternoon. According to preliminary information, the group allegedly comprised three Pakistani and one local terrorist.Additional personnel from the Army, CRPF and police, along with reinforcements, were rushed to the area from Udhampur on Tuesday morning, officials said, adding that no contact was established with the suspects until evening.Ramtund area lies near the Seoj Dhar belt, situated on the Doda-Udhampur axis, which further connects to Kathua region. Terrorists have traditionally used this route to travel and hide, as the topography features dense vegetation and natural caves, officials said.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesThe searches in Doda came four days after local police put up posters across J&K, announcing Rs 15 lakh reward for credible information leading to the arrest of self-styled Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Mohammad Lateef Bhat.Separately, security forces launched an intensive combing operation in Poonch’s Mendhar sector upon noticing suspicious movement near an under-construction tunnel. “A security guard manning the site spotted the suspects and fired three to four rounds as a precautionary measure, following which a joint team of SOG and CRPF launched a search operation around 6am Tuesday in the nearby forested stretches of Bhatadurian, Sangiot and adjoining areas,” an official said.Get the latest India News and Live updates. 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NEW DELHI: Three months after CJI Surya Kant’s ‘cockroach’ remark sparked a storm and gave birth to Cockroach Janta Party that led a Gen Z protest against NEET-UG paper leak, Supreme Court Tuesday sought responses from govt and CBI on a PIL seeking action against those who commercially exploited the remark through clever editing of virtual court proceedings and draped it with a meaning that was never intended.During a half-an-hour long debate on the issue before a bench comprising CJI Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana, petitioner-cum-advocate Raja Choudhary said it requires a deeper investigation as to how the word ‘cockroach’, used in a completely different context during judicial proceedings on May 15, was selectively picked, cleverly edited and commercially exploited to undermine judicial dignity and hurt institutional integrity. The petitioner sought a direction to authorities “to examine and take action in accordance with law against persons/entities allegedly involved in commercial exploitation, trademark appropriation, monetized circulation, or unauthorised commercial use of oral courtroom observations/metaphors, including activities of CJP, while recognising that fair criticism, democratic dissent, satire, and free speech remain permissible within the constitutional framework without undermining institutional dignity”.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesReferring to the May 15 hearing before a CJI-led bench on a petition ‘Sanjay Dubey Vs Registrar General of Delhi HC’, Choudhary emphasised the CJI had made the “cockroach” remark in the specific context of fake advocates, as he expressed “concerns regarding misuse of court process, deterioration of professional standards and how it impacted the institution itself”.He said post-May 15, there has been a quantum increase in clips of selectively edited judicial proceedings. The distorted versions and oral observations made during court proceedings are turned into memes and are circulated in social media for profit, said Chaudhary.He complained there is no mechanism against these sinister designs aimed at diminishing public faith in the institution and judges by showing them in poor light.Get the latest India News and Live updates. 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NEW DELHI: The Centre should scrap all existing inter-state border check posts within six months and replace the All India Tourist Permit with a unified All India Passenger Permit within a year, a parliamentary panel has recommended, pitching for a sweeping overhaul of the country’s bus transport system.The committee headed by JD(U) MP Sanjay Kumar Jha made the recommendations after consultations with govt departments, bus operators, passengers and other stakeholders to identify key hurdles facing the sector, which transports more passengers daily than Indian Railways.The panel noted that India has around 4.4 lakh buses, but only about 1.1 lakh are owned by govt entities, mainly state road transport undertakings. Ten states account for nearly 90% of these govt-owned buses, including Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat.Calling for an overhaul of the permit regime, panel urged road transport ministry to replace the All India Tourist Permit with an All India Passenger Permit. The new permit should reflect the number of passengers actually carried, ensuring that enforcement does not hinge on whether a traveller qualifies as a “tourist”.“The rights of the permit holder, including the right to halt, to board and set down passengers at notified points, and to enter public terminals on payment, should be stated exhaustively on the face of the permit,” panel said.It also asked Centre to prevail upon six states to close border check posts that they are still operating.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesPanel further recommended that all bus terminals provide private operators “non-discriminatory access” to pick up passengers on payment of an entry fee, following the model at Delhi’s ISBT.It also proposed establishment of a National Bus Terminals Authority to develop and standardise terminal infrastructure and, where states agree, manage bus terminals and intermodal passenger hubs.Panel further recommended a unified online ticketing platform covering state-run and private bus operators for passenger convenience.It has proposed a citizen vigilance channel, modelled on Election Commission’s cVIGIL app, allowing passengers to file geo-tagged, time-stamped complaints—with photos or videos—about overloading, unsafe transport of schoolchildren, faulty safety equipment and poor sanitation in buses, terminals and halting points.Complaints would be automatically forwarded to the enforcement authority concerned for action within a prescribed timeframe, it said.Get the latest India News and Live updates. 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NEW DELHI: India’s food safety regulator has barred the use of plastic and plastic-laminated packaging for pan masala, under an amendment aimed at tightening existing packaging norms, according to a press release.The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has specified that pan masala may now only be packaged in paper, paperboard, cellulose, or other naturally derived materials. Such materials must be entirely free of plastic, including polyethene, polypropylene, polyester, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and other synthetic polymers, copolymers or laminates, as well as aluminium foil or metallised layers, the release said. Tin and glass containers continue to be permitted, it added.The press release further stated that packaging will also need to conform to clauses (f) and (i) of sub-rule 1 of rule 4 of the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, framed under the Environment Protection Act, 1986.The amendment has been incorporated as a new entry in Schedule IV of the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Regulations, 2018, which lists suggested packaging materials. It has been placed right after the existing entries at Serial Number 10, the release said.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesNotified as the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Amendment Regulations, 2026, the amendment will come into force from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette, according to the release.The regulations were issued by FSSAI in exercise of powers conferred under clause (k) of sub-section (2) of Section 92 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, and with prior approval of the Central Government, the release said.Get the latest India News and Live updates. 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The new FIR lodged at Khardah police station is based on a complaint by the family of the deceased that the body was cremated in a hurry without the consent of the family members to hush up evidence,” the officer told news agency PTI.This comes days after chief minister Suvendu Adhikari directed the police to register a separate case into the circumstances surrounding the cremation.”The role of Ghosh, Dey and Mukherjee in the cremation needs to be investigated. I have ordered the registration of a new case separately, apart from the court-monitored Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). I have asked the Barrackpore Police Commissioner to take necessary steps in this regard,” he had said on August 8.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesThe 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor was found dead in a seminar room of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9, 2024.Investigators subsequently established that she had been raped and murdered the previous night.According to the police, the body was taken to a crematorium in Panihati and cremated in haste, allegedly overtaking two other bodies waiting in the queue.Police have also raised questions over the signatures on the cremation consent documents, saying they were allegedly those of neighbours and not the victim’s parents or other family members.The CBI is separately investigating the rape and murder case following the transfer of the probe from the Kolkata Police. 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