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Delhi HC delays Herald plea hearing
The Delhi High Court on Monday deferred hearing the Enforcement Directorate’s challenge in the National Herald money-laundering case, pushing the matter to May 25 after the court said detailed arguments could not be taken up during the day’s proceedings. The plea, listed before Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma, arises from...
Lenskart redraws line on workplace identity
Lenskart has publicly issued a revised in-store style guide after a backlash over an alleged internal dress code and a separate Pongal-themed advertisement, seeking to draw a clear line under a dispute that has widened into a broader debate over cultural literacy, workplace rules and brand sensitivity. The eyewear...
Court tightens pressure in TCS Nashik case
A court in Nashik has refused interim protection from arrest to Nida Khan, an accused in the sexual harassment and alleged religious coercion case linked to Tata Consultancy Services’ facility in the city, dealing a setback to the only person among the named accused who has not yet been...
Hormuz warning sharpens naval watch
India has tightened maritime security around the Strait of Hormuz after two India-linked vessels came under fire on 18 April, prompting a fresh naval advisory for ships operating in the Persian Gulf and a more controlled approach to crossings near one of the world’s most sensitive energy chokepoints. Vessels...
Russia cargo turn lifts Mangaluru
A crude tanker that left Primorsk in Russia for Rizhao in China has altered course in Southeast Asian waters and is now headed to New Mangalore carrying about 1.1 lakh tonnes, or roughly 7.7 lakh barrels, of Urals crude, in a shift that underlines how quickly Asian oil trade...
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...
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...
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...
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...
