NEW DELHI: The manufacturing sector has shrugged off the impact of Covid-19 and posted robust growth, creating jobs and raising workers’ incomes, according to a survey report released on Monday, prompting policymakers to say that overall economic growth could rise in the months ahead.The annual survey of industries (ASI) for 2022-23 financial year showed that…
External affairs minister S Jaishankar will visit Colombo this week for what will be the first high-level engagement between India and Sri Lanka since the new Lankan president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, assumed office last week. The visit will be an important for India to reaffirm its commitment to development support for the strategically located Indian…
NAGPUR: Observing that a minor subjected to sexual assault would be “petrified” and “not behave normally and play”, Nagpur bench of Bombay HC acquitted a 64-year-old man, who was sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment under Pocso Act and Section 376AB of IPC for allegedly raping an eight-year-old girl in March 2019.The man, Vijay…
NEW DELHI: Invoking its extraordinary power under Article 142 of the Constitution to do complete justice, Supreme Court on Monday came to the rescue of a Dalit youth who could not get admission in IIT-Dhanbad because he could not pay the admission fee of Rs 17,500 on time to secure his seat. Observing that “it…
SURA: A man, 26, was held for death of a nursing student, as he wasted hours searching for remedies online despite seeing her profusely bleeding after a sexual encounter, in a hotel in Gujarat‘s Navsari district on Sept 23.Investigators said instead of rushing her to a hospital or seeking medical help, accused surfed the internet…
BENGALURU/MYSURU: Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah‘s wife Parvathi Monday offered to surrender 14 sites totalling 38,284sqft allotted to her in an upscale Mysuru locality by Muda as compensation for land in Kesare village, saying her family’s reputation is more important than wealth or land.In a letter addressed to Muda officials, Parvathi announced her decision to return the…
NEW DELHI: Amid the threat of a wider regional conflict in West Asia following the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah by Israel, PM Modi spoke on Monday to his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu expressing solidarity on the issue of terrorism while also underlining the need to prevent regional escalation. Modi said there’s no place…
GURGAON: This assembly election in Haryana, BJP’s posters speak louder than any campaign speech.After 10 years in office in the state, the party does not have Manohar Lal Khattar, who served as CM for almost the entire period before BJP replaced him with Nayab Singh Saini this March and moved him to the Centre as…
BENGALURU: A Pakistani national, his Bangladeshi wife and her parents, who have been living in India with fake passports and Aadhaar cards for the past 10 years, were arrested on Monday from their rented villa at Jigani on the outskirts of Bengaluru.Police have seized their passports and Aadhaar cards, which they procured using fake documents.The…
BHOPAL: A CBI special court on Monday convicted a retired bank officer, five members of his family and a CA in a 19-year-old disproportionate assets case. Judge Arvind Kumar Sharma sentenced former assistant general manager of SBI Jitendra Pratap Singh to three years of rigorous imprisonment and fined him Rs 32,22,250. If he fails to…
