NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Friday asked chief secretary and police chief of Punjab why contempt proceedings be not initiated against them for non-compliance of its Dec 20 order for hospitalisation of farmer Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who is on a fast-on-to-death at Shambhu border for almost a month.Holding a rare vacation bench during winter break, a…
NEW DELHI: Manmohan Singh believed India’s development priorities should shape its foreign policy and, in his own words, create a global environment conducive for India’s growth. It was with this in mind that he met President George Bush in 2005 on the margins of the UNGA and asked him if the US could help India…
MUMBAI: Chartered Accountant final examination results were declared on Friday with a success rate of 13.4% for those who took both groups. The all-India rank one was tied between Heramb Maheshwari of Hyderabad and Rishab Ostwal of Tirupati, both of whom scored 84.7%. Riya Shah of Ahmedabad and Kinjal Ajmera of Kolkata stood second and…
CHENNAI: Outrage over an Anna University engineering student’s alleged rape on campus echoed in Madras high court Friday as a division bench initiated suo motu proceedings and took the DMK govt to task for seeking credit for a suspect’s arrest “when the state is supposed to prevent the crime”.“Advocate general P S Raman is saying…
AGRA: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has been served with a defamation notice of Rs 1.5 crore by the advocate representing three acquitted men in the ‘2020 Hathras gangrape case‘, following his video posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Dec 14. Gandhi has been given “15 days to respond”.Senior…
NEW DELHI: More than 40 batches of drugs being sold in the market have been found to be not-of-standard quality (NSQ) by the Central Drug Standards Control Organisation (CDSCO) in latest survey.The CDSCO, which is the apex body responsible for approval of new drugs and clinical trials, has issued an alert regarding this.According to latest…
NEW DELHI: Former PM Manmohan Singh will be cremated with full state honours at Nigambodh Ghat here on the banks of Yamuna Saturday.The announcement by the home ministry triggered a controversy, with Congress saying govt did not heed its request to hold his last rites at a befitting place that could be built into a…
NEW DELHI: There are 43 lakh cases of cheque bounce pending in various courts across country as of Dec 18. Rajasthan tops all states and UTs with more than 6.4 lakh such cases pending, followed by Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi, UP and Bengal.Traffic challans and cheque bounce cases together account for a large number of pending…
PATNA: JDU Friday criticised protests that erupted over a rendition of Mahatma Gandhi’s famous bhajan ‘Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram’ by folk singer Devi at an event marking birth anniversary of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee here on Dec 25, with the audience objecting to the line ‘Ishwar allah tero naam’ in the bhajan. JDU spokesperson…
NEW DELHI: A declassified document recovered from Osama bin Laden‘s Abbottabad hideout described the 2008 Mumbai attack as a “heroic Fidai operation”. A year before the attack, al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri made a clandestine visit to Islamabad to confer with the outfit’s former leader Osama. The meeting was arranged by Hafiz Abdul Rehman Makki, who…
