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NEW DELHI: Merely because the wife is a graduate, she cannot be compelled to work and it cannot be presumed that she is intentionally not working to claim maintenance from her estranged husband, Delhi High Court has said. The court's observation came while dealing with a plea by a man seeking a reduction in interim maintenance payable to his wife from Rs 25,000 per month to Rs 15,000 per month on the...

NEW DELHI: A husband-wife combination of three-star generals is extremely rare. When Sadhna Saxena Nair was promoted to the rank of Air Marshal in the IAF on Monday, the Nairs attained that exceptional distinction.Air Marshal Sadhna Nair, a doctor who took over as the director-general of hospital services (armed forces) on Monday, joined her husband Air Marshal K P Nair, a fighter pilot who retired as...

KOLKATA: Director general of Indian Coast Guard Rakesh Pal visited the coast guard headquarters (north east) in West Bengal capital Kolkata on Wednesday where he was received with ceremonial 50-man Guard of Honour and was presented with an overview on Coast Guard operational and on-going Coast Guard infrastructure development projects in West Bengal and Odisha, a press statement released by ICG...

DINDIGUL: The ban imposed on carrying mobile phones by devotees inside the Arulmigu Dhandayuthapani Swamy Temple at Palani in Tamil Nadu's Dindigul district came into force on Sunday. To aid devotees, the temple administration set up mobile phone deposit points where phones can be dropped off safely.One of the six abodes of Lord Murugan, the Arulmigu Dhandayuthapani Swamy Temple, sees hundreds of...

NEW DELHI: The Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP), a set of anti-air pollution measures implemented in the Delhi-NCR region during the winter season, is set to be activated starting Sunday. The Commission for Air Quality Management, an autonomous body tasked with improving air quality in Delhi and its neighboring areas, made significant changes to the GRAP last year and again in July this year.The...