NEW DELHI: Actor Shah Rukh Khan on Thursday received a death threat over a call demanding Rs 50 lakh, prompting the police to register an FIR. According to Mumbai police, an extortion case has been registered against an unidentified person at Bandra Police Station in Mumbai under section 308(4) and 351(3)(4) of BNS.Mumbai Police team…
NEW DELHI: Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on Thursday trained guns at Bharatiya Janata Party and challenged it to contest the upcoming assembly elections upfront instead of attacking him “from behind.”Soren claimed that BJP used the central agencies and billions of rupees have been spent to spoil his image.“Agar himmat hai toh samne se lado…
NEW DELHI: Poll inducements worth over Rs 588 crore have been seized by agencies under the supervision of the Election Commission, since the announcement of assembly elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand, and bypolls in 14 states. While the cumulative seizure of inducements like cash, liquor, drugs, precious metals and freebies in Maharashtra have already touched…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the Ajit Pawar faction of NCP to continue using the ‘clock’ symbol for the Maharashtra assembly elections after the the deputy chief minister assured the court that he would publish a disclaimer within 36 hours in leading newspapers, including Marathi dailies, stating that the legal fight with…
For India, Donald Trump‘s return to White House isn’t just an acceptable but a desired outcome of US presidential elections, given Trump 1.0’s perceived strategic convergence of interests with India and his close rapport with Narendra Modi.Unsurprisingly, the PM was among the first heads of states to congratulate “my friend” Trump, shortly after the latter’s…
NEW DELHI: In March 2023, defence minister Rajnath Singh had some unusual guests for Holi as commerce secretary Gina Raimondo and her team attended the festivities at his Ashoka Road bungalow. The result was a series of announcements, which extended up to PM Narendra Modi’s visit to the US in June 2023. It had taken…
NEW DELHI: The Cabinet on Wednesday approved Rs 10,700 crore equity infusion in Food Corporation of India (FCI) for working capital requirement during the current financial year, which will reduce the interest burden by around Rs 800 crore annually and thereby cut down govt’s subsidy outgo.The decision is aimed at bolstering the agricultural sector and…
NEW DELHI: To make quality higher education more accessible to India’s middle-class youth, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the PM Vidyalakshmi Scheme, which is designed to ease financial burden of students from families with an annual income below Rs 8 lakh.Under this scheme, eligible students will be able to secure collateral-free and guarantor-free education…
NEW DELHI: In an important ruling that would ease payment of insurance compensation to road accident victims, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said a person holding a licence to drive light motor vehicles (LMVs) can drive all kinds of transport vehicles with a gross weight of less than 7,500 kg without the transport department’s endorsement.In…
HYDERABAD: A question seeking to know if respondents had faced threats, coercion or discrimination while visiting places of worship was among several last-minute additions or modifications to the questionnaire for Telangana’s first Backward Classes survey that commenced Wednesday with a house-listing exercise.Sources said the questionnaire was revised multiple times over the past fortnight, resulting in…
