SHIMLA: A subdivisional magistrate was attacked by a mining mafia near Mandi town in Himachal Pradesh late Monday. The incident has left SDM (Mandi) Om Kant Thakur, a 2019-batch IAS officer, with a broken tooth. One person has been arrested in this connection so far, police said. A district official said the SDM was in…
NEW DELHI: The recovery of black money deposited in banks during demonetisation has begun with ED restituting Rs 79 crore, seized from a jeweller, to SBI. Musaddilal Jewellers of Hyderabad deposited Rs 111 crore cash in various banks during demonetisation, claiming they were advance payments from about 6,000 clients for jewellery.In Jan 2017, within weeks…
NEW DELHI: Sharing that 805 applications and 3,266 website links were blocked, 19 lakh mule accounts caught and suspicious transactions worth over Rs 2,000 crore suspended due to the intervention of the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), home minister Amit Shah told a parliamentary panel on Monday that efforts are underway to employ AI…
PRATAPGARH: In a case of a digital arrest where a 52-year-old man was driven to suicide following financial exploitation, Pratapgarh police arrested four accused, including a minor, and booked them under the charges of abetment to suicide, impersonation, criminal conspiracy, and others. Four others are still absconding.Gyandas Gautam, 52, was a safai karamchari in Panchayat…
JAMMU: To stop terrorists and subversive persons from misusing flying objects, the district administration of Doda, J&K, banned the use, storage and transportation of drones in the district for two months from February 10, officials said Tuesday.As per an order issued by the office of Doda additional district magistrate Sudershan Kumar Monday, defence forces, police…
Samay Raina & Ranveer Allahbadia NEW DELHI: The massive uproar over content creator Ranveer Allahbadia‘s “sex and parents” remark at comedian Samay Raina‘s “India’s Got Latent” show only intensified on Tuesday, with people across the spectrum stepping in to condemn Allahbadia’s crass comment.Allahbadia, widely popular for his YouTube channel “BeerBiceps,” landed trouble after a clip…
Nirmala Sitharaman in Lok Sabha NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday accused the Trinamool Congress (TNC) administration of fostering systematic corruption and weakening governmental institutions.During her reply to the debate on Union Budget 2025-26 in the Lok Sabha she said, “It is ironical that Trinamool Congress, a party which prides itself on being…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought the Election Commission of India‘s (ECI) response to the pleas seeking verification of the burnt memory and symbol loading units in Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in compliance with its judgement. A special bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Dipankar Datta asked the poll panel to…
Delhi University on Tuesday argued in the Delhi High Court that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BA degree did not fall under “public interest” under the Right to Information Act while defending its refusal to share the document.Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing DU, told Justice Sachin Datta that something of “interest to the public” was not…
JD Vance gives shoutout to PM Modi US Vice President JD Vance gave a shoutout to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s views on the role of artificial intelligence in economic growth at the AI Action Summit in Paris. The summit was co-chaired by French President Emmanuel Macron and PM Modi.Vance, representing the Trump administration, reiterated a…
