Children should not come under any pressure: SC

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New Delhi: Observing that children should not be subjected to any kind of pressure, the Supreme Court Thursday stressed the need to find a solution to issues arising from the CBSE policy mandating Class IX students to study three languages. “We don’t want the children to come under any pressure,” CJI Surya Kant said. The SC was hearing a batch of pleas challenging the CBSE’s policy mandating the study of three...

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North Korea launches short-range missile barrage despite Trump overture

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Seoul:  North Korea fired a barrage of short-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea Thursday, despite a recent olive branch offered by US President Donald Trump, who signalled a willingness to reengage with the North's leader Kim Jong-un. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected roughly a dozen short-range ballistic missiles launched from the Pyongyang area at around 5 pm, adding that further analysis is under way in cooperation...

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‘Misplaced’: Madras HC rejects plea to disqualify 25 rebel AIADMK MLAs

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Chennai: The Madras High Court has dismissed a petition seeking directions to the Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker and Assembly Secretary to initiate disqualification proceedings against 25 rebel AIADMK legislators who supported the confidence motion moved by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay May 13. A division bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan also declined to quash Speaker J.C.D. Prabhakar’s decision to drop proceedings against 21 of...

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Dhaka: India's High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Dinesh Trivedi, Thursday assured that New Delhi would take all necessary steps following the deaths of Bangladeshi nationals in a hotel fire in Kolkata, local media reported. “It's very sad. We will certainly do whatever needs to be done,” he said while addressing reporters following a meeting with Bangladesh's Health and Family Welfare Minister Sakhawat Hossain at the Secretariat in Dhaka. Hossain described the meeting...

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Children should not come under any pressure: SC

New Delhi: Observing that children should not be subjected to any kind of pressure, the Supreme Court Thursday stressed the need to find a solution to issues arising from the CBSE policy mandating Class IX students to study three languages. “We don’t want the children to come under any pressure,” CJI Surya Kant said. The SC was...

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