NEW DELHI: As major troop contributing countries to the UN, India and Spain condemned the attacks on the UN Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL) and highlighted that the safety and security of peacekeepers are of paramount importance and must be ensured by all.Inviolability of UN premises and the sanctity of their mandate must be respected…
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached assets worth Rs 500 crore located across Maharashtra, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh in a Rs 4,000-crore bank fraud and money laundering case against Corporate Power Ltd, and its promoters and directors Manoj Jayaswal, Abhijeet Jayaswal and Abhishek Jayaswal.In Aug, ED had searched the premises…
RANCHI: Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren’s poll proposer in Barhait (ST), Mandal Murmu, was detained by police in violation of Election Commission (EC) poll guidelines, state chief electoral officer (CEO) K Ravi Kumar said on Monday. According to BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, Murmu was on his way to Ranchi to discuss the issue of Bangladeshi…
At least 13 villagers in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada have suffered severe eye infections, with many at risk of being blinded, after botched cataract surgeries at a govt hospital on October 18 and October 22. Preliminary probe indicates the surgeries were carried out in unhygienic conditions, the operation theatre was not sanitised, and there was fungus on…
NEW DELHI: While denying that Russia had any role in facilitating the meeting between PM Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping in Kazan last week, Russian ambassador to India Denis Alipov welcomed the recent agreement between India and China to end the military standoff in eastern Ladakh, calling it a positive development in Sino-Indian ties….
PATNA: Independent MP from Purnia Pappu Yadav, who recently described the Lawrence Bishnoi gang as “petty thugs”, alleged on Monday that he received death threat from the gang. Yadav claimed that the threat came amid his ‘closeness’ to Bollywood actor Salman Khan, whom the Bishnoi gang had earlier targeted.The threat call, suspected to have been…
NEW DELHI: Granting bail to two men recently in a money laundering case, Delhi high court has ruled that the stringent twin tests for grant of bail under Section 45 of Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) cannot be invoked as a tool to indefinitely detain accused persons when there is a delay in…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi and Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez on Monday jointly inaugurated the TATA Aircraft Complex in Vadodara for manufacturing C-295 transport aircraft, with Modi saying India’s first private military aircraft factory will not only strengthen relations between the two countries, but also provide momentum to the mission of ‘Make in India, Make…
JAMMU: A terrorist was killed early Monday in retaliatory action after he and two associates fired at a military ambulance that was part of an Army convoy moving through Battal Keri-Jogwan near the LoC in Sunderbani sector of Akhnoor, 28km from Jammu city.An official said no soldiers were wounded in the counteroffensive. “The area was…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to launch projects worth Rs 12,850 crore in health care sector on the occasion of 9th Ayurveda Day on Tuesday.“Tomorrow, on Ayurveda Day at around 12:30 PM, important schemes relating to the healthcare sector would either be launched or their foundation stones will be laid. In…
