VK News Today https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Vicky Kaushal shares loved-up picture with ‘Jaan’ Katrina Kaif from her birthday celebrations – PIC | Virgo Horoscope Today, July 17, 2026: Day require careful control over spending and impulsive actions Govt plans bill to punish those who insult, block Vande Mataram singing Indian stabbed 15 times in a mall in US over his religion: Reports NEW DELHI: A day after a report of alleged breach of sensitive data of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant (KNPP), space, atomic energy, science and technology minister Jitendra Singh asserted on Thursday that there was no breach of sensitive data from the largest nuclear power plant of the country.Rubbishing reports of breach of sensitive data related to units 3 and 4 of the Tamil Nadu nuclear plant, Union minister Jitendra Singh told TOI, “There is no breach of nuclear reactor data.” He also made it clear that there is no need for a review if nothing has happened.A day earlier, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd, which is leading the construction and operation of reactors at Kudankulam, had said that its core systems were untouched by a “cyber security incident”, after ransomware group World Leaks posted a huge cache of files related to the N-plant on the dark web and claimed data breach.Reliance Infrastructure was involved in designing and building infrastructure for the plant’s unit 3 and unit 4 in 2018. NPCIL said the engineering, procurement and construction contract for the common services awarded to R-Infra are of conventional nature and are typically found in thermal power plants as well as other process industries.A day before, a Reliance Group spokesperson said, “The company was informed by Yotta Data Services Private Limited (Yotta), its third-party data centre service provider, of a cybersecurity incident involving an attempted ransomware attack that resulted in partial breach of data hosted on one of Yotta’s servers. Yotta has informed the company that the suspicious process was identified and terminated immediately, and the incident was contained and also that no ransomware execution, data loss, or lateral movement occurred, and services were restored.”On Wednesday, NPCIL executive director (CP&CC) Prateek Agrawal told TOI, “They (files leaked) are not related to nuclear safety or nuclear security systems. Like thermal power plants, tenders are issued for common services. Such common services are not associated with the core systems of the nuclear plant.”Just 1.6% of Isro scientists-engineers taken VRS or resigned during 2025-26: Dept of Space sourcesOn reports of an internal memo on tightening rules for voluntary retirement (VRS) for Isro employees amid a mass exodus claim, sources in the Department of Space clarified that “the number of scientists and engineers taken VRS or resigned during 2025-26 is 144, which is about 1.6% of sanctioned levels of scientist and engineers for the department of space”. “The trend is similar to the attrition levels noticed in previous years,” the sources said, clarifying that there is nothing alarming about it.Get the latest India news and live updates. 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That is not the area where SC has commented on use of bulldozers. SC was concerned about the pick-and-choose policy of authorities for demolitions, like using bulldozers only on houses of accused persons when illegal constructions were all around those properties.” Bulldozers need to be used when rule of law is thwarted: SC Justice Bagchi said, “Bulldozers need to be used when the rule of law is thwarted by a comfortable corruption between municipal authorities and illegal encroachers. But we also need to ensure that under the guise of implementing law, there should not be a categorisation of individuals. It runs against basic tenets of rule of law.”Let us say everyone in the area has violated the law and encroached onto a footpath. But authorities cannot single out encroachment of a family if one of its members is an accused in a criminal case to create a demonstration of reprisal. That is when the rule of law comes under scrutiny.” The foundation of the 2024 SC judgement is not a blanket ban on removal of all illegal and unauthorised constructions on public land. Bulldozers can be used to remove unauthorised structures from public land, but after scrupulously following the process specified in municipal laws, the bench said. In the judgement, SC had laid down an elaborate process of issuing notice detailing illegalities in a structure, 15 days’ time for owner to respond to the notice, grant of personal hearing, passing of final order, and then another 15 days from final order to appeal against it before appellate forum or courts.However, SC in its judgement had also clarified that “these directions will not be applicable in cases of unauthorised constructions in any public place such as road, street, footpath, abutting railway line or any river body or water bodies and also to cases where there is an order for demolition made by a court of law.” SC said it would transfer all petitions alleging violations of SC judgement in removal of illegal structure to jurisdictional HCs after additional solicitor generals Aishwrya Bhati and Anil Kumar Kaushik said that each case involves different sets of disputed facts and, hence, the need for the fact-finding exercise. It said HCs would take the help of district judicial officers to ascertain facts on the ground before proceedings to decide the petitions.Get the latest India news and live updates. Download the TOI App.End of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideosIndia’s First Private Orbital Rocket, Skyroot’s Vikram-1, Set For July 18 LaunchGhaziabad Horror: Son Allegedly Shoots Father Dead During ₹150 Cr Property Dispute’Do Not Be Arrogant’: Kejriwal Urges PM Modi To Appoint Sonam Wangchuk As Education MinisterCan NDA Pass Delimitation And One Nation, One Election Bills? 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