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A significant number of Agniveervayu trainees have completed their training at the Mechanical Transport Training Institute in Chennai. Meanwhile, the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun witnessed a historic Passing Out Parade with the commissioning of its first batch of women officer cadets. The Air Force Academy also celebrated the successful completion of pre-commissioning training for its flight cadets.

India's drug regulator is now demanding hair colour manufacturers prove their products meet safety standards and carry clear warnings. Companies must adhere to Cosmetics Rules and BIS norms regarding ingredients, restrictions, and labelling, including mandatory patch-test instructions. This move highlights growing scrutiny on cosmetic safety, urging firms to re-evaluate formulations and consumer information for this booming market.

Writing the judgment, Justice N Kotiswar Singh said, “While it is important to make an assessment as to how a child will respond to either of the parents, it is equally important to ascertain mental and psychological conditions of the parents themselves to deal with the needs of the growing child.” SC said the assessment of the parents’ psychological conditions must be conducted prior to a similar assessment of the child to understand compatibility with each of the parents.

Sources within NDA suggest one of the parties that may see desertion from its ranks is Sena UBT, a possibility being talked about since the alliance swept the assembly polls in Maharashtra but has gained traction now. The Uddhav Thackeray-led party has nine MPs in Lok Sabha and six of them will have to merge with another party — Shiv Sena led by deputy CM Eknath Shinde seen as the most probable option — to avoid losing membership under the anti-defection law.

While none from the rebel camp contested the screenshots, almost everyone voiced grievance against Abhishek Banerjee. Lashing out, Abhishek said, “BJP has been trying many tactics — from creating rift in our party to intimidating party workers, taking over party offices, and destroying our organisation. But no matter what they do, they cannot deny the fact that 2.6 crore people voted for us and we got a 41% votes. We will continue to fight against this oppression.”

Alleging BJP steals elections, Rahul said he had warned “friends in TMC”, who were confident that they were sweeping Bengal polls, that they were in “dreamland” — stating he had seen it in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Maharashtra. He said BJP can’t win the next polls, “which is already won”, because people are angry, but the hurdle is that elections will not be free and fair.

After an hour-long proceeding, during which senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi for the BJP candidate whose election was facilitated by Natarajan’s disqualification and solicitor general Tushar Mehta for MP govt cited a judgment where SC had refused to entertain a similar plea against rejection of nomination papers, the bench said the SC or HC cannot entertain writ petitions in exercise of their jurisdictions under Articles 32 or 226 of the Constitution. Once the election process commences with

“El Niño conditions are present over equatorial Pacific Ocean and are expected to strengthen during monsoon season,” IMD said, while announcing the advent of the condition — warming of ocean waters in central and eastern equatorial Pacific — that’s invariably linked with weak monsoon in India. The latest forecast could be used by policymakers to immediately activate contingency measures in all 197 districts across the country that have been identified by the