MUMBAI: Axis Bank overtook Kotak Mahindra Bank on Thursday to become India’s third most valued private lender after a rout in the latter’s stock. Kotak Bank‘s stock opened deep in the red on Thursday a day after RBI restricted the lender from onboarding customers digitally and issuing credit cards, citing repeated failures to fix “serious…
NEW DELHI: Reinforcing married women’s right over ‘streedhan’, Supreme Court on Wednesday held that streedhan cannot become joint property of a couple, and a husband has no control over his wife’s assets, which he may use during times of distress but must return to her. Adjudicating a matrimonial dispute over streedhan, a bench of Justices…
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat high court has reserved the verdict on the dismissal of a judge allegedly involved in forging the resignation letters of two other judges.The case involves a civil judge and judicial magistrate first class (JMFC), who was posted in Limbdi court in Surandranagar district, where the principal district judge received resignation letters from two…
NEW DELHI: Delhi HC listed for hearing on Friday a PIL that seeks disqualification of PM Narendra Modi from contesting elections for allegedly violating MCC during his campaign speech in UP’s Pilibhit on April 9.The petition, filed by advocate Anand S Jondhale last week, accuses Modi of seeking votes in the name of “god and…
BHOPAL: PM Modi on Thursday accused Congress of including Muslims as a whole in the OBC list in Karnataka “through the backdoor” and promoting reservation on religious lines in violation of the Constitution.He said when the Constitution was drafted, to protect the unity and integrity of the country, it was decided that there won’t be…
NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has told PM Narendra Modi that his attempt to insert Hindu-Muslim debate into the election campaign is a ploy to divert focus from Congress’s stress on the rich-poor inequality created by his “suit-boot sarkar”. He urged Modi to not divide the nation like “your pre-Independence allies – the Muslim…
KOLKATA: A day after Mamata Banerjee called Calcutta HC a “mahatirtha (pilgrimage site)” for BJP while stressing that HC could have “given some other advice” in the cash-for-jobs case instead of scrapping the appointment of 25,757 people by SSC, the court on Thursday admitted a petition against West Bengal chief minister for “making accusations against…
NEW DELHI: Setting a new trend to make party presidents accountable for alleged violation of the model code of conduct by their candidates and star campaigners, Election Commission on Thursday issued notices to the chiefs of BJP and Congress seeking their response to alleged violations made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul…
NEW DELHI: The 16 Indian crew members still on board an Israel-linked cargo ship seized by Iran are safe and will be released once their contractual obligations are accomplished, MEA on Thursday said. “One girl who was there has returned. We had asked for consular access for the rest and we received that… our officers…
NEW DELHI: Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp LLC told Delhi HC on Thursday that it can’t function if forced to break encryption, as required under the Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.Any mandate to store messages will require the platform to keep “millions and millions” of these, the platform’s counsel…
