India

Mumbai: The sensational Rs 22,842 crore mega loan fraud allegedly perpetrated by the Gujarat-based ABG Shipyard Ltd (ABGSL) did not spare the IPO-bound Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) while the ICICI Bank and the IDBI Bank took the worst-hit among other government, private, foreign banks, NBFCs, as per official data. The State Bank of […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based aerospace company Ananth Technologies Limited (ATL) has contributed to the successful launch of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C52 (PSLV-C52) on Monday. The space mission witnessed its different stages harnessed, integrated, tested, and qualified by ATL, a long-time partner of ISRO, under contract with the latter’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC). The company has been […]

Guwahati: Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday slammed Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for asking proof from the Central government over the surgical strikes carried out by the Indian Army in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) in September 2019. Sharing a video of Rao’s press conference on Twitter where he demanded proof, Sarma said […]

Bengaluru: A full bench of the Karnataka High Court comprising Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna S. Dixit and Justice Khaji Jaibunnesa Mohiyuddin on Monday resumed hearing of petitions seeking directions to the ruling BJP government to allow wearing of hijab in classrooms. The bench had given an interim order last week that no […]

Hoshiarpur: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over unemployment, saying he does not talk about it and black money in his election speeches. Addressing a poll rally here, Gandhi targeted the Narendra Modi-led government over demonetisation and goods and services tax, alleging that only two-three billionaires benefited from them. Stating […]

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is trying to cobble up a united front against the BJP, said on Monday that she had spoken with her counterparts in Tamil Nadu and Telangana, and together they were trying to “protect the country’s federal structure from getting bulldozed”. The TMC supremo, who had visited Uttar […]

Kolkata: The winning spree of Trinamool Congress continues in West Bengal as the party won four municipal corporations — Siliguri, Asansol, Bidhannagar and Chandannagar with a thumping majority reducing the opposition to the minnows. The Trinamool Congress won the prestigious fight in Siliguri, snatching away the corporation from the Left Front winning 37 of the 47 […]

Srinagar: The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on Monday paid tributes to the 40 troopers killed in a terror suicide attack on this day in 2019. The troopers of CRPF were killed when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive laden car into a security forces convoy in the Lethpora area of Pulwama district on the […]

San Francisco: Former Amazon employee Rohit Kadimisetty has been sentenced to 10 months in prison with a fine of $50,000 for a fraud and bribery scheme targeting the e-commerce giant’s online Marketplace. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) said in a statement that Kadimisetty, 28, of Northridge, California, pleaded guilty to conspiracy in September 2021. […]

New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs has recommended a ban on 54 Chinese mobile applications that pose a threat to the country’s security, officials sources said on Monday. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) will formally issue a notification banning the operations of these apps in India. The apps against whom the […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday paid homage to the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel who lost their lives in a terrorist attack on their convoy in Pulwama in 2019, and said their bravery and supreme sacrifice motivate every Indian to work towards a strong and prosperous country. In the attack by […]

Udupi: Amid the ongoing hijab row, schools for classes up to 10th standard re-opened on Monday in Karnataka. Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai made the announcement on re-opening of the schools on Sunday. “Schools up to 10th standard will re-open from Monday. I have instructed the DCs, SPs and school administrations to conduct a peace […]

Los Angeles: Ivan Reitman, the influential filmmaker and producer behind beloved comedies from “Animal House” to “Ghostbusters,” has died. He was 75. Reitman died peacefully in his sleep Saturday night at his home in Montecito, Calif., his family told The Associated Press. “Our family is grieving the unexpected loss of a husband, father, and grandfather […]

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday urged the people of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh to vote in record numbers to ensure the prosperous future of their States. The Home Minister appealed to the voters of Uttar Pradesh, in the ongoing second phase of polling, to elect a government that will ensure a […]

New Delhi: As many as 34,113 fresh COVID-19 cases were reported across the country in the 24-hour period, informed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday. A total of 75.18 crore tests have been conducted so far in India, with 10,67,908 tests held in the last 24 hours, as per ministry data. Country’s […]

New Delhi: As Goa and Uttarakhand are voting for their Assemblies in a single phase on Monday, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has appealed to people to vote. “To all my Goan friends today; choose development, choose a politics that puts you first, choose the freedom to be you: choose Goa!”, she tweeted. “Dear Uttarakhand people, Mountain […]

Panaji: Polling for Goa’s 40 Assembly seats has started at 7 a.m. on Monday. As many as 301 candidates are in the fray in the single-phase assembly elections, where the ruling BJP is looking to score a hat-trick of victory. The party has been in power in the coastal state since 2012. The main parties […]

Mumbai: Equity indices opened in red on Monday with Sensex down by 1,256.48 points and Nifty down by 373.10 points. The 30-scrip BSE Sensex was down by 1,256.48 points or trading at 56,896.44 and down by 2.16 per cent at 9.27 am. Similarly, 50-scrip NSE Nifty was trading at 17,001.70 at 9.27 am, down by […]

Sriharikota: India on Monday morning successfully placed into orbit its radar imaging satellite EOS-04 in a text book style. With this the Indian space agency began its 2022 romance with space missions. At 5.59 a.m. Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C52 (PSLV-C52) blasted off from the first launch pad carrying three satellites including the earth […]

Lucknow: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has said that Muslim women must come forward to dispel misconceptions about ‘hijab’ and ‘purdah’ to counter people who are spreading hate in the name of protests against it. “My dear sisters, use this time to inform people about hijab, dispel the prejudice, express that you […]

Gurugram: A Gurugram restaurant faced huge outrage on social media after the staff denied entry to a 22-year-old disabled woman in a wheelchair. The disabled person has been identified as Shrishti Pandey, a resident of Delhi. The woman tweeted: “The staff first ignored me but later said that the wheelchair won’t go inside, because it […]

Lucknow: A girl wearing Hijab will become the prime minister of the country one day, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has said amid the controversy over Muslim women’s headscarves. “If a girl decides to wear Hijab and asks her parents to do so and when her parents allow her to wear it, who can stop her […]

New Delhi: The Life Insurance Corporation of India on Sunday filed the Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) with capital markets regulator SEBI. The insurer is looking to sell the Centre’s five per cent equity stake in the company via its upcoming IPO, the DRHP document said. The Centre aims to offload a total of 316 […]

Lucknow: Fifty-five seats spread across nine districts, including some in Rohilkhand region, will go to polls on Monday in the second phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh which will see senior Samajwadi Party leader Mohammad Azam Khan and state Finance Minister Suresh Khanna trying their luck at the hustings. As many as 586 candidates are […]