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Nashik TCS allegations widen scrutiny
Sexual harassment allegations by several women employees at Tata Consultancy Services’ Nashik unit have widened into a larger workplace misconduct investigation, with police registering nine FIRs, making multiple arrests and drawing in the National Commission for Women as well as the company’s own external review process. The case has...
Top court seeks Bengal tribunal report
India’s Supreme Court on Monday said it would seek a report later in the day from the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court after complaints that appellate tribunals set up under West Bengal’s Special Intensive Revision, or SIR, were not functioning properly, sharpening scrutiny of a process already...
Manipur grief ignites another valley surge
Manipur has slipped back into unrest after the April 7 strike on a house in Tronglaobi village in Bishnupur district killed two children and left their mother badly hurt, setting off protests, shutdowns and renewed questions about whether the state’s fragile calm was ever more than temporary. The children,...
Oil surges as Hormuz tensions deepen
Oil prices climbed sharply on Monday after a United States seizure of an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel in the Gulf of Oman reignited doubts over a fragile ceasefire and revived fears that the struggle over the Strait of Hormuz could harden into a deeper threat to global energy flows. Brent...
Tehran hardens line on US talks
Iran has pulled back from a planned second round of talks with the United States, hardening a standoff that is now being shaped as much by shipping pressure and military risk as by diplomacy. Tehran’s state media said it would not join the next meeting, arguing that Washington’s demands...
Opposition resets bid against poll chief
Opposition parties are preparing a fresh parliamentary move to seek the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar after their earlier notices were rejected, opening a new front in a confrontation that has sharpened around the conduct, credibility and autonomy of the election process. Leaders from Congress, Trinamool Congress,...
Nashik TCS inquiry widens – Newspack Live!
Panel opens Nashik TCS probe A fact-finding committee set up by the National Commission for Women has begun an on-ground inquiry into allegations of sexual harassment and religious coercion linked to Tata Consultancy Services’ office in Nashik, with advocate Monika Arora saying on Saturday, April 18, that the panel...
Court sets Sonia Gandhi reply deadline
A Delhi court has asked Sonia Gandhi to file written submissions within a week in a criminal revision petition that challenges her alleged inclusion in the electoral roll before she acquired citizenship, pushing the politically charged dispute into its next phase and listing the matter for 16 May. The...
Nagarathna draws a hard line on judicial greed
Supreme Court judge Justice B V Nagarathna used a judicial officers’ conference in Bengaluru on Saturday to deliver an unusually blunt message on integrity, saying judges who cannot live within their known sources of income and fall prey to greed and temptation should be removed from the system, a...
Court order revives Rahul Gandhi case
Rahul Gandhi, Congress Member of Parliament from Rae Bareli and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, has suffered a legal setback after the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court directed that a first information report be registered over allegations linked to dual citizenship. The order, passed...
Shah offers written seat rise pledge
Union Home Minister Amit Shah told the Opposition in the Lok Sabha on Friday that the government was willing to put its assurances on delimitation into a formal amendment, sharpening a tense debate over women’s reservation, parliamentary expansion and the political balance between states. Shah said he was ready...
TCS suspension deepens Nashik case
Tata Consultancy Services has suspended Nida Khan, an employee linked to its Nashik unit, as a widening police investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and forcible religious conversion places one of the country’s largest IT employers under unusual scrutiny. Khan, who police have described as absconding, has moved a...
YSRCP backs quota push as bill falls
YSR Congress Party’s decision to support the Centre’s push on women’s reservation and delimitation has sharpened fault lines in Parliament, but it did not deliver the legislative breakthrough the government was seeking. On April 17, the constitutional amendment tied to expanding legislatures and reserving one-third of seats for women...
Lok Sabha setback jolts quota push
A Constitution amendment bill that sought to expand the Lok Sabha and accelerate one-third reservation for women was defeated in the lower house on Friday after the government failed to secure the required two-thirds majority, handing the National Democratic Alliance its first legislative defeat on a government bill since...
Opposition plots line on quota bill
Opposition parties in the INDIA bloc were due to meet in Parliament on Friday to firm up a common floor strategy over the Constitution Bill, after a heated Lok Sabha debate in which the government said women’s reservation and a fresh delimitation exercise would not reduce the proportional weight...
Tech Mahindra pushes back on Goregaon row
Tech Mahindra has moved to contain a controversy over workplace practices after a viral image carrying the words “Footwear Free Zone” triggered allegations of religious bias at its Goregaon office in Mumbai. The company said an internal review found the claims circulating on social media to be “inaccurate and...
Lenskart row puts dress codes under glare
Lenskart founder Peyush Bansal has rejected claims that the company’s current grooming rules permit a hijab while barring a bindi, tilak or kalawa, after a document titled “Lenskart Staff Uniform and Grooming Guide” triggered a political and social-media backlash on April 16. Bansal said the circulating document did not...
Razzak exit jolts Trinamool in Bengal
Trinamool Congress has suffered a conspicuous pre-poll embarrassment in Murshidabad after Abdur Razzak, the outgoing MLA from Jalangi, resigned from the party days before West Bengal votes in a two-phase Assembly election, sharpening attention on dissent inside the ruling camp at a point when Mamata Banerjee’s organisation is seeking...
