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SC dismisses review plea against One Rank-One Pension judgement
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea seeking review of its order upholding the One Rank-One Pension (OROP) principle adopted by the Centre in its 2015 communication issued to the…
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Anti-CAA protests: HC notice to Delhi Police on Sharjeel Imam’s bail plea
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday sought the response of the Delhi Police on activist Sharjeel Imam‘s appeal against a lower court order denying him interim bail in a sedition…
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IIT Bombay students threaten hunger strike against proposed fee hike
Mumbai: Students of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) on Thursday decided to start a hunger strike if their demands including revocation of the recent fee hike are not fulfilled by…
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Gujarat court likely to pass order on bail pleas of Teesta Setalvad today
Ahmedabad: A sessions court in Ahmedabad is likely to pass its order on Friday on the bail applications of activist Teesta Setalvad and former DGP R B Sreekuamr arrested for allegedly fabricating…
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Akhilesh Yadav comes out in support of Congress President Sonia Gandhi
Varanasi: In a surprising political development, Samajwadi Party (SP) President Akhilesh Yadav has come out to support Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi. Akhilesh, while talking to reporters on Thursday evening, said that…
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Road accidents claim 5.82 lakh lives in India in 4 years: Govt
New Delhi: As many as 5.82 lakh people lost their lives in accidents in four years up to 2020 as per the data received from police department of all states/UTs, though the…
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Muslim youth hacked to death in Karnataka
Dakshina Kannada: A gang of miscreants allegedly hacked a Muslim youth to death in Karnataka’s Mangaluru district, hours after the state Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s visited the family of slain BJP activist…
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New poll says Rishi Sunak more popular with swing voters than Liz Truss
London: Former British chancellor Rishi Sunak is the preferred candidate to replace UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson among swing voters, according to a new poll. The new YouGov survey comes as the…
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US GDP falls for second-straight quarter, signs of a possible recession
Washington: US Gross Domestic Product contracted by 0.9 per cent in the second quarter of this year after a first-quarter drop of 1.6 per cent, the US Commerce Department said Thursday in…
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Yemen: Conjoined twins successfully separated in Saudi Arabia
Riyadh: A team of doctors in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on Thursday successfully separated Yemeni conjoined twins Mawaddah and Rahma, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. The 3-month-old twins were born conjoined…
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Boris Johnson loyalist accuses Rishi Sunak of a ‘ruthless coup’
London: One of outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s key loyalists and supporter of Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as his successor on Thursday accused Rishi Sunak of leading a “ruthless coup” against…
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Partha Chatterjee sacked as minister after arrest in SSC job scam
After Arpita Mukherjee’s confession to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials regarding the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) scam, chief minister Mamata Banerjee sacked minister Partha Chatterjee from his position and relieved…
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Karnataka: Two Muslim men arrested in BJP worker’s murder case
Mangaluru: Karnataka police on Thursday arrested two persons from Dakshina Kannada district in connection with the murder of BJP youth wing leader Praveen Nettar. The arrested accused have been identified as Zakir…
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He already apologised, Sonia on Adhir Ranjan’s ‘Rashtrapatni’ remark
New Delhi: Amid the ruling party seeking an apology from Sonia Gandhi over Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s ‘Rashtrapatni’ remark, the Congress president on Thursday said that he has already sought forgiveness. #WATCH |…
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Forced to use my flats as storehouses of illegal cash: Arpita Mukherjee confesses
Kolkata: In the wake of the two consecutive recoveries of massive amounts of cash and gold from two of her residences in Kolkata’s Tollygunge and Belgharia, Arpita Mukherjee on Thursday confessed to the…
