NEW DELHI: Now urban households earning up to Rs 9 lakh annually will be eligible for interest subsidy scheme (ISS) on home loan for a property measuring not more than 120 sq metre under the newly approved PM Awas Yojna (Urban) scheme, which officials said is aimed at ensuring financial relief for “deserving” beneficiaries —…
NEW DELHI: Amid signs of a thaw in India-Maldives ties for the past few months, President Mohamed Muizzu met visiting India’s foreign minister S Jaishankar on Saturday and, as they presided over a ceremony for the inauguration of water and sanitation projects spread over 28 islands, called India one of Maldives’ closest allies and invaluable…
MUMBAI: Hindenburg Research, the US short-seller that in Jan 2023 had alleged extensive corporate fraud by the Adani group using offshore vehicles, on Saturday night cited whistleblower documents claiming that Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch, with husband Dhaval, had also invested in the same offshore vehicles.Sebi chief and her husband, through 360 One WAM (IIFL’s…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee (File photo) A volunteer who works alongside Kolkata police personnel was arrested on Saturday for rape and murder of a second-year postgraduate trainee doctor at city’s RG Kar Hospital the previous day.Sanjay Roy was held barely six hours after a seven-member special investigation team (SIT) was set up. The 35-year-old…
A volunteer who works alongside Kolkata police personnel was arrested on Saturday for rape and murder of a second-year postgraduate trainee doctor at city’s RG Kar Hospital the previous day.Sanjay Roy was held barely six hours after a seven-member special investigation team (SIT) was set up. The 35-year-old was produced in a local court, where…
DHAKA: Protesters besieged Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Saturday, delivering a two-hour ultimatum that forced a purge of the country’s highest court. Chief justice Obaidul Hassan decided by 1pm (in line with the student-imposed deadline) to resign. He was replaced by Syed Refaat Ahmed, appointed amid student protests backed by “law adviser” Asif Nazrul to bring…
BHOPAL: Three sisters, aged between 6 and 9 years, drowned in a shallow water pit in the backyard of their house while immersing an ‘idol’ they had made on Nag Panchami in Rewa district on Friday. Sonali, 9, Tanvi, 7, and Jahnvi, 6, daughters of Rajkumar Rajak, had not told their parents that they were…
BHOPAL: Three sisters, aged between 6 and 9 years, drowned in a shallow water pit in the backyard of their house while immersing an ‘idol’ they had made on Nag Panchami in Rewa district on Friday. Sonali, 9, Tanvi, 7, and Jahnvi, 6, daughters of Rajkumar Rajak, had not told their parents that they were…
NEW DELHI: Union home and cooperation minister Amit Shah on Saturday said govt has decided to advance the target of 20% ethanol blending in petrol from 2030 to 2025-26, appealing to sugar cooperatives to help achieve the target by ensuring that all sugar mills produce ethanol in two years, setting up multi-dimensional biofuels production plants…
MEERUT: The recent arrest of a suspected serial killer by Bareilly police has come under intense scrutiny after people noticed a striking similarity between a previously released sketch of the accused man and his latest photograph. The eerie likeness — down to matching shirt patterns, fabric creases, and facial shadows — has sparked widespread scepticism…
