Former Sebi chief Madhabi Puri Buch NEW DELHI: The Bombay high court on Tuesday stayed a special court’s order directing FIR against ex-Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and five other officials for alleged stock market fraud and regulatory violations. The stay to remain in place for four weeks.A single bench of Justice Shivkumar Dige said…
TMC leaders outside ECI office (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Saket Gokhale on Tuesday countered the Election Commission of India (ECI )’s claims, accusing the poll body of “covering up” the alleged voter list fraud instead of accepting it. The Rajya Sabha MP claimed the ECI was attempting to brazen out the…
Arindam Bagchi (File photo/X) NEW DELHI: India on Monday lashed out at the United Nations’ human rights chief for making “unfounded and baseless” comments about Kashmir and Manipur.Slamming the UN’s human rights body for having a “misplaced concern,” India took strong exception to generalised remarks that were “cherry picking” of the situation.Arindam Bagchi, Permanent Representative…
RAJKOT: A court in Dhoraji town, in Gujarat’s Rajkot district, found a 22-year-old man guilty of raping a 14-year-old girl despite his DNA not matching her fetus; the conviction was based on other evidence and the survivor’s statement.At the same time, the court, in its recent order, also ordered the Rajkot SP to conduct a…
Tourists on Mall Road amid fresh snowfall in Manali. It recorded a minimum temperature of 1.6oC Monday KULLU: Lahaul Spiti and higher reaches of Kinnaur, Shimla, and Chamba districts received a spell of fresh snowfall even as moderate to heavy rain lashed low and mid hills Monday, prompting Himachal Pradesh school education board to defer…
KANPUR: The phone rang in a small home in Goyera Mughli village of Banda in UP’s Bundelkhand. It was February 15. A voice – familiar yet carrying the weight of impending finality – broke the silence. “This is my last call,” said Shahzadi Khan, 33. A hush fell over her family. Her brother Shamsher gripped…
TRICHY: Tamil Nadu‘s crusade against delimitation took “baby steps” towards a full-blown public showdown with the Centre on Monday, with CM M K Stalin calling on newlyweds to “immediately” have children for the state to have an upper hand when the exercise is rolled out in over a year.The CM was speaking at a wedding…
NEW DELHI: Prevalence of excess weight among people in India has gone up nearly five times in the past 30 years – from approximately 53 million in 1990 to 236 million in 2021, claims a new study published in The Lancet.If action is not taken to curb this growing public health challenge, the study warns,…
NEW DELHI: Amid its ongoing effort to clear out the Gaza Strip of Hamas, Israel continues to press India for the group’s designation as a terrorist organisation. The immediate provocation on this occasion for seeking its listing as a terror group is the presence of several Hamas leaders in POK last month on “Kashmir Solidarity…
Investigators claimed that a pen drive seized during the raid was found to contain ‘incriminating material’, including blueprints of the proposed attack and potential targets AHMEDABAD: A 19-year-old UP native living incognito in Faridabad and suspected of preparing for an attack on Ram temple in Ayodhya was arrested in a joint operation Sunday, soon after…
