Kochi, Nov 14 (PTI): The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) issued an interim order directing the Kerala government not to issue orders of appointment, transfer and posting of IAS officers without convening the Civil Services Board’s meeting. The CAT bench here comprising Judicial Member Justice Sunil Thomas and Administrative Member K V Eapen issued the order on Monday based on a petition filed by the Kerala IAS Officers’ Association alleging the issuance of frequent transfer and posting orders of IAS officers without the recommendation of the Civil Services Board. ”There will be a direction to the…State of Kerala not to issue

Who would want to be a journalist covering the conflict in Gaza? It seems that every day a new accusation of bias surfaces on social media. Live reporting is prone to the dangers of speculation, mistakes and disinformation traps for the unwary. If you add in the most explosive dateline in the world, then the accusations of bias come thick and fast. On the other hand, Phil Chetwynd, global news director at AFP, a French news agency, says: “Our work has never felt more important.” In this conflict, most of the dangerous reporting has been done by Palestinian journalists living

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP): Battles around hospitals have forced thousands of Palestinians to flee from some of the last shelters in northern Gaza while stranding critically wounded patients, including newborns, and their caregivers with dwindling supplies and no electricity, health officials said Monday. The Israeli military has urged Palestinians to flee south on foot through what it calls safe corridors. But its purported drive to separate civilians from Hamas militants has come at a heavy cost, with more than two thirds of the territory’s population of 2.3 million having already fled their homes. As Israeli troops encircled Gaza’s Shifa