NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate on Thursday said it has attached properties worth over Rs 678 crore of the Avantha Group, owned and controlled by industrialist Gautam Thapar, in an alleged bank fraud and money-laundering case. The properties include land parcels located in Haryana, Maharashtra and Uttarakhand.The agency said its investigation revealed that Avantha Group companies…
MUMBAI: Central Board of Secondary Education (CB-SE) has made it compulsory for its schools to use textbooks from National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) for classes 9 to 12 from this academic year. For classes 1 to 8, schools have been ‘strongly’ encouraged to use NCERT textbooks. Previously, schools had the choice to…
MUMBAI: In one of the oldest pending rape cases before the sessions court, 40 years after a now 70-year-old man was accused of raping a 15-year-old girl who later became his wife and mother of his four children, a trial judge acquitted him for lack of evidence.While the accused remained untraceable for almost four decades,…
NEW DELHI: Taking a cue from the ongoing Middle East conflict and the Ukraine-Russia war where both sides have been using self-destructive drones to attack rival’s assets, India’s elite research institute National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) has developed a desi ‘Kamikaze’ drone that is driven by an indigenously-built engine that gives them a range of 1,000…
NEW DELHI: Invoking the Emergency, when fundamental rights of citizens were suspended and people were subjected to various restrictions, and the present situation in Bangladesh, CJI D Y Chandrachud Thursday said people, who are taking freedom and liberty for granted, should dwell on the stories of the past to know how precious freedom is.The CJI…
NEW DELHI: PM Modi on Thursday doubled down on India’s efforts to ensure the safety and security of the Hindu community in Bangladesh, emphasising in his Independence Day address 140 crore countrymen were worried about them and other minorities in the neighbouring country, and expressed hope the situation there would normalise soon.Amid unending concerns over…
BHUBANESWAR: Woman employees in govt and private sectors in Odisha will get a day’s paid period leave, deputy CM Pravati Parida announced Thursday in Cuttack after an I-Day event. “The leave will be optional and can be taken on either the first or second day of the menstrual cycle, depending on the woman’s preference,” said…
Reclaim the night‘, the protest call, became a mass movement across India on Independence Day eve on Wednesday as it reverberated in numerous cities as doctors, other professionals and general public gathered to raise their voice against the rape and murder of the on-duty 31-year-old PGT doctor inside RG Kar Medical College and Hospital (RGKMCH)…
KOLKATA: Bengal braced for a tense Friday with a shutdown-like scenario as CM Mamata Banerjee‘s Trinamool Congress and opposition parties BJP and CPM announced separate protests focused on RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, where the rape and murder of a postgraduate resident doctor on Aug 9 has triggered national outrage.BJP and CPM condemned the…
KOLKATA: Vandals armed with sticks, shafts, bottles and bricks usurped the night Kolkata sought to reclaim Wednesday, storming RG Kar Medical College past midnight and unleashing 40 minutes of mayhem that didn’t spare even critical care units and left doctors and nurses pulverised soon after spontaneous street protests against a 31-year-old PG student’s rape-murder.Ten suspects…
