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Jagdeep Dhankhar lamented on Saturday that retired judges have kept the country's arbitral system in a «tight-fist grip», denying a chance to other qualified minds, and echoed the remarks of Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud that it resembles an «old boys' club». Dhankhar suggested that the time has come when people need to introspect and move forward by bringing about necessary changes, including, if required, by legislation. «Nowhere on the planet, in no other country, in no other system there is such a tight-fist grip on the arbitral system by retired judges.

new space race heats up and lunar mining has raised key legal issues, the US is turning to private companies to advance its outer space goals. Emphasizing the need to encourage the private sector to explore the investment possibilities on the moon, Michael Usowski, Senior Defense Intelligence Analyst for Space and Counterspace at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), told Fox News, «If we want to maintain our lead, then we need to continue to invest and ensure that we're the ones setting the pace and not another entity.»

Israel-Hamas war: Even as the world leaders attempt to bring Israel and Hamas back on the negotiating table, Israel is displaying its resolve to eliminate Hamas from the map of the Earth. As per a recent report by the Wall Street Journal, Israel’s intelligence agencies, which are known for their undercover operations, plans to kill Hamas leader across the globe after the war in Gaza ends The report said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given clear orders to Israel’s top spy agencies that Hamas leaders living in countries like Lebanon, Turkey, Qatar, etc.

Gurgaon police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) will investigate the case filed by MGF against Emaar India, the local arm of Dubai's Emaar Properties, and international property consultant JLL India, a senior police officer said. Following the direction of a Gurgaon court, the local police filed a case of undervaluation of land and other charges of committing fraud. “We have registered the case at the direction of the court and have now started the process to transfer the case to EOW. That team will begin the investigation,” said the police officer, who did not wish to be identified. According to a court document, in 2019, Emaar Properties appointed JLL as an independent valuer arbitrarily and forged the reports pertaining to the demerged assets in conspiracy with JLL to decrease the value of MGF’s land and inflate the value of Emaar Properties’ claim to unjustly enrich themselves.

Veteran Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon has issued an apology after saying at a pro-Palestine rally that people feeling afraid of being Jewish at this time were «getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country, so often subjected to violence». The Academy Award-winning actor's comments, made in response to the Israel-Hamas conflict at a pro-Palestinian rally last month, drew widespread criticism.

Himalayas where the glaciers are melting at an alarming rate, UN chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday said the ongoing annual climate talks here must respond to the needs of the developing nations, especially the vulnerable mountain countries that need urgent help. Almost 240 million people depend on the glaciers and 10 major rivers, such as Indus, Ganga, and Brahmaputra, originating in the Himalayas.

The spike in illness in the country where COVID emerged in late 2019 attracted the spotlight when the World Health Organization sought information last week, citing a report on clusters of undiagnosed pneumonia in children. Chinese authorities will open more paediatric outpatient clinics, seek to ensure more elderly people and children receive flu vaccines and encourage people to wear masks and wash their hands, Mi Feng, an official with China's National Health Commission, told a press conference. Doctors in China and experts abroad have not expressed alarm about China's outbreaks, given that many other countries saw similar increases in respiratory diseases after easing pandemic measures, which China did at the end of last year.

Sajjan Jindal's JSW Group buying a 35% stake in MG Motor India is a win-win deal for both. MG Motor India is a British brand owned by China’s SAIC. The company had a good start with the launch of its first product SUV Hector in 2019.

film is about a leader of men who lived his life fearlessly in service to the nation, and the other is about a bearded angry man drenched in blood laughing about male body parts and treating women like property, oh yes, in the name of his daddy. Animal is about Ranbir Kapoor who loves his ‘papa’ Balbir Singh (played by Anil Kapoor) so much that he asks his mother why he cannot be called Balbir II like the sons of kings who took on their father’s name upon coronation. But young Ranbir has a temper, so his father sends him off to America to learn some discipline.

paddy crop despite kharif season 2023-24 being marred by floods during July and August, officials said. The state, known as the food bowl of the country, is expecting paddy output to cross 205 lakh metric tonne with an average yield going up by more than four quintal per hectare as compared to last year. «We are anticipating the paddy production to cross 205 lakh MT this year,» said Punjab Agriculture department Director Jaswant Singh.

Green Climate Fund, sources familiar with matter said on Saturday as Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in Dubai for the U.N. climate summit. The fund, with more than $20 billion in pledges, is the largest international fund dedicated to supporting climate action in developing countries.

Kamboj said that India truly believes in the «transformative power» of youth. «We recognise that the path to achieving the SDGs by 2030 is through harnessing the energy, the creativity and the innovation of our young population,» she said on Thursday. «India is home to the world's largest youth population, which is very unique.

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SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) — No new infectious diseases have been found so far in investigations of respitory illness, Mi Feng, an official with China's National Health Commission said in a press conference on Saturday.

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Construction of one of Russia’s key natural gas projects in Siberia to supply gas to China is likely to be slower than expected, they said, adding that discussions between the two sides over the construction of the Power of Siberia 2 natural gas pipeline have progressed slowly. The pipeline, if completed, would supply 50 billion cubic metres (1.8 trillion cubic feet) of natural gas per year to China. The new pipeline is needed, according to China’s assessment, because the Power of Siberia 1 pipeline is limited to 67 billion cubic metres per year. However, China is bargaining hard with Russia, which is facing western sanctions.

Climate advocacy groups are pressuring world governments gathered at this year's United Nation's COP28 climate conference in Dubai to commit to cutting global food sector emissions, as the conference host promises to put agriculture in the spotlight. Global food systems- including farming and land use, livestock production, household food consumption and waste, and energy used in the farm and food retail sectors — account for 31% of human-made greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). But few governments have ever published numeric targets for lowering those emissions, focusing instead mostly on the use of fossil fuels for power, transport and industry, according to climate advocates. «Business as usual food systems would use nearly the whole carbon budget for a 2-degree Celsius world. We need to implement food systems approaches throughout COP28,» said Joao Campari, global leader of food practice at the World Wildlife Fund. A full day of the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP), Dec.

The Israel-Hamas war has ignited a maelstrom of legal activity in workplaces and, for today’s purposes, on university campuses.