Articles for Backlog

Right to jury trial under threat as Leveson asked to carry out ‘once in generation’ review of courts
1 week, 4 days ago

Right to jury trial under threat as Leveson asked to carry out ‘once in generation’ review of courts

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Sir Brian Leveson is to lead a “once in a generation” …

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Starmer set to greenlight major reform of courts after murder trial backlog almost quadrupled under Tories
1 week, 4 days ago

Starmer set to greenlight major reform of courts after murder trial backlog almost quadrupled under Tories

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Among the catastrophic details revealed are: Rape victims have to wait on average almost a …

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More OLA stores, models; but there’s a backlog
2 weeks, 1 day ago

More OLA stores, models; but there’s a backlog

New Indian Express  

Ola Electric’s co-founder Bhavish Aggarwal has just announced an ambitious plan to open as many as 3,200 stores by the end of December. Some of the pink papers which carry such ‘news’ must now do their due diligence and check how many Ola stores actually opened, and how they are performing. Isn’t it cheeky a company facing thousands of complaints …

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BEML needs to make hay while its order backlog shines
2 weeks, 6 days ago

BEML needs to make hay while its order backlog shines

Live Mint  

BEML Ltd’s recent order win of ₹3,658 crore from Chennai Metro Rail Ltd offsets the subdued September quarter when it received orders worth ₹444 crore only due to delay in order finalization in rail and metro. “With better margin business increasing their contribution, we expect BEML's operating margin to increase from 10.9% in FY24 to 15.6% in FY27, leading to …

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Odisha districts struggle with high UDID card application backlog
1 month ago

Odisha districts struggle with high UDID card application backlog

New Indian Express  

BHUBANESWAR: Ten districts in the state have the highest number of applications pending when it comes to generating unique disability identity card for persons with disabilities. Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment’s department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities is implementing the ‘Unique ID for Persons with Disabilities’ project to create a national database for PwDs and issue UDID card …

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Air pollution: Centre's air quality panel criticises growing backlog of complaints in Delhi
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Air pollution: Centre's air quality panel criticises growing backlog of complaints in Delhi

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Centre's panel tasked with improving air quality in Delhi-NCR has raised concerns over the slow resolution pace and the growing backlog of air pollution-related complaints in the national capital. Among various steps, the Commission for Air Quality Management has directed intensified efforts to remove highly polluting end-of-life vehicles that are still in use in Delhi. The panel …

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Labour could fast-track asylum claims from Afghanistan, Iran and Syria
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Labour could fast-track asylum claims from Afghanistan, Iran and Syria

The Telegraph  

Migrants from countries such as Afghanistan, Iran and Syria could have their asylum claims fast-tracked under Labour plans to clear the backlog of cases. Asked whether ministers would fast-track claims by asylum seekers from countries with high grant rates, Sir Keir Starmer said the Government wanted to move “all cases through the system much more quickly”. Yvette Cooper, the Home …

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Revealed: Surge in backlog of wrongful conviction appeals at under-fire watchdog
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Revealed: Surge in backlog of wrongful conviction appeals at under-fire watchdog

The Independent  

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‘Deeply concerning’ backlog of thousands of cancer patients waiting months for treatment revealed
1 month, 4 weeks ago

‘Deeply concerning’ backlog of thousands of cancer patients waiting months for treatment revealed

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Thousands of patients with suspected cancer have been left waiting more …

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Court backlog crisis laid bare as some new trials not due to start until mid-2027
2 months, 1 week ago

Court backlog crisis laid bare as some new trials not due to start until mid-2027

The Independent  

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How can Shabana Mahmood clear the courts backlog without knowing the numbers?
2 months, 2 weeks ago

How can Shabana Mahmood clear the courts backlog without knowing the numbers?

The Independent  

You cannot solve a problem if you cannot measure it. “Without robust, rigorous and comprehensive data collection the government cannot hope to understand what is going on in our courts or be able to address the huge backlogs,” Mr Emmerson tells The Independent. The Independent reports that on arriving in office Shabana Mahmood, the new justice secretary, ordered a “complete …

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Channel migrants will be housed in hotels at the taxpayers' expense 'for three more years'
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Channel migrants will be housed in hotels at the taxpayers' expense 'for three more years'

Daily Mail  

Channel migrants will be housed in hotels at the taxpayers' expense for up to three more years, it was reported last night. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper privately believes the backlog will take more time than initially expected to work through, with a knock-on effect on closing migrant hotels, the Times reported. A group of people thought to be migrants leave …

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How prisoners are able to roam around unmonitored amid a massive backlog of fitting electronic tags to inmates
3 months ago

How prisoners are able to roam around unmonitored amid a massive backlog of fitting electronic tags to inmates

Daily Mail  

Prisoners are being released from jail without being electronically tagged amid a massive backlog. Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood promised that tagging would provide crucial oversight of ­convicts released under her emergency measures. Prisoners are being released from jail without being electronically tagged amid a massive backlog Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood promised that tagging would provide crucial oversight of ­convicts released …

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Sub-Classification Within The SC & ST Categories Should Not Eventually Lead To De-Reservation
3 months, 1 week ago

Sub-Classification Within The SC & ST Categories Should Not Eventually Lead To De-Reservation

Live Law  

A seven judge bench of the Supreme Court in State of Punjab & Ors. Justice Gavai, in his concurring opinion, while noting this fact observes, “If the State…finds that certain categories within the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are not adequately represented and only the people belonging to few of the categories are enjoying the entire benefit reserved for Scheduled …

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5 takeaways from AP’s report on the big backlog of uninspected drug factories
3 months, 2 weeks ago

5 takeaways from AP’s report on the big backlog of uninspected drug factories

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — As COVID-19 swept across the globe in early 2020, the Food and Drug Administration pulled most of its safety inspectors from the field, creating a massive backlog of uninspected pharmaceutical plants in the U.S. and overseas. Nearly five years later, The Associated Press wanted to assess the FDA’s performance in catching up on inspections of factories that produce …

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FDA has massive backlog of factory inspections as staffers leave for private sector jobs
3 months, 2 weeks ago

FDA has massive backlog of factory inspections as staffers leave for private sector jobs

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators responsible for the safety of the U.S. drug supply are still struggling to get back to where they were in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic upended factory inspections in the U.S. and across the world, The Associated Press has found. Under FDA’s own guidelines, factories that haven’t been inspected in five or more years are considered …

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Centre pulls up Maharashtra government for backlog of citizen grievances
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Centre pulls up Maharashtra government for backlog of citizen grievances

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai: The central government has criticised Maharashtra's state government for failing to address thousands of citizen grievances filed over the past year. Until 18 September 2023, the central government operated the Centralised Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System for complaints related to state government departments. CPGRAMS was subsequently merged with the Maharashtra government's Aaple Sarkar 0.2 platform, with state departments …

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Supreme Court’s pendency crosses 82,000 despite full force of 34 judges most of the time in past two years
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court’s pendency crosses 82,000 despite full force of 34 judges most of the time in past two years

The Hindu  

Ever since the appointment of Chief Justice of India D.Y. The unceasing increase in backlog over the past two years raises the question whether a solution to pendency lies beyond maintaining the full sanctioned judicial strength of 34 judges. Several resolutions of the Supreme Court Collegium led by Chief Justice Chandrachud in the past two years have explicitly voiced concern …

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Docs’ strike leaves behind load of over 2K surgeries in U.P.
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Docs’ strike leaves behind load of over 2K surgeries in U.P.

Hindustan Times  

Although resident doctors on Friday resumed duty after their nine-day strike in protest against the brutal rape and murder of a woman resident doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, their stir led to a backlog of over 2,000 surgeries across Uttar Pradesh. This in a bid to increase the number of daily elective surgeries by 20% …

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Gurugram inundated, traffic backlog on Delhi-Ggn expressway
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Gurugram inundated, traffic backlog on Delhi-Ggn expressway

Hindustan Times  

Nearly three hours of continuous rainfall in Gurugram on Thursday morning led to severe waterlogging and traffic snarls, especially on the Narsinghpur stretch of the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, Basai and the Golf Course Extension Road. Traffic congestion was also reported from the National Highway 48, on stretches going towards Delhi and Sohna Road. Traffic on NH-48 between Kherki Daula and Rajiv …

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Centre says all departments asked to identify backlog reserved vacancies
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Centre says all departments asked to identify backlog reserved vacancies

The Hindu  

All Central Government Ministries and departments have been asked to form an in-house committee for the identification of backlog reserved vacancies and fill them through special recruitment drives, the Lok Sabha was informed on July 24. In a written reply, Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said the occurrence and filling of vacancies, along with backlog reserved vacancies, is …

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U.S. District Court judge is considering food stamp backlog case against Alaska’s health department
4 months, 4 weeks ago

U.S. District Court judge is considering food stamp backlog case against Alaska’s health department

Salon  

U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason is considering a case that’s calling for stricter oversight of Alaska’s health department after extreme delays in food stamp distribution left thousands of residents without aid for months, the Alaska Beacon reported Thursday. Public assistance advocates told Anchorage Daily News that the error rate, which “measures how accurately a state agency processes federal benefits,” …

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Yvette Cooper reveals Tories’ £700m Rwanda spend and brands asylum backlog ‘Hotel California’
5 months ago

Yvette Cooper reveals Tories’ £700m Rwanda spend and brands asylum backlog ‘Hotel California’

The Independent  

Home secretary Yvette Cooper has revealed that Rishi Sunak’s government has already spent £700m on the plan to remove asylum seekers to Rwanda and had planned to spend a further £10bn. In a stinging speech in the House of Commons, Ms Cooper said the Tory government has left an asylum backlog like “Hotel California” because it stopped processing thousands of …

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Airports clearing backlog gradually after tech outage, airline systems working normally
5 months ago

Airports clearing backlog gradually after tech outage, airline systems working normally

New Indian Express  

MUMBAI: Airline systems across airports, which were impacted due to a global IT outage on Friday, have started working normally, and all issues are likely to be resolved by noon on Saturday, Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu said. "Since 3 AM, Airline systems across airports have started working normally. On Friday, in one of the biggest-ever IT outages, an …

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