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Former CBI director Vijay Shankar passes away

New Delhi, Dec 3 (PTI) Former CBI director Vijay Shankar breathed his last on Tuesday after prolonged illness, his family said. He was 76. Shankar was admitted to a private hospital in Noida for some time. His mortal remains will be donated to AIIMS as per his last wish, they said. A 1969-batch IPS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre, Shankar headed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from December 12, 2005 to July 31, 2008. During his tenure as CBI director, the agency took over the infamous Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case. As additional director of CBI, he supervised the

Adani Group seeks to settle SEBI charge of shareholding violations, ET reports

Dec 3 (Reuters) – Several entities linked to the Adani Group have approached the SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) seeking to settle a case that accuses them of violating public shareholding regulations at some listed companies, the Economic Times reported on Tuesday. The Securities and Exchange Board Of India (SEBI) had sent notices to Adani Enterprises, the group’s flagship company, as well as Adani Power, Adani Ports and Adani Energy alleging they had wrongfully categorised the shareholding of certain entities. The groups’ breaches of a minimum public shareholding requirement date back to 2020 and the SEBI had sought

COVID lockdowns affected adolescents’ brain structures, says research

Loughborough (UK), Dec 3 (The Conversation) A recent study reported the somewhat alarming observation that the social disruptions of COVID lockdowns caused significant changes in teenagers’ brains. Using MRI data, researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle showed that the usual, age-related thinning of the cortex – the folded surface – of the adolescent brain accelerated after the lockdowns and the effect was greater in the female brain than the male. What are we to make of these findings? Science shows the critical importance of adolescence for the brain. The notoriously different behaviour of teenagers is due to a

Govt, oppn break impasse in Parliament; Constitution debate to be held in Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha

New Delhi, Dec 2 (PTI) The government and opposition parties reached an agreement on Monday to break the week-long impasse in Parliament with the dates announced for a discussion on the Constitution, to mark its 75th year of adoption, in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. The Lower House will take up the discussion on the Constitution on December 13 and 14, and the Upper House on December 16 and 17, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said following a meeting Speaker Om Birla held with floor leaders of different parties. Opposition parties had demanded discussions in both Houses of

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