- Saturday, April 19, 2025
The claim of slowdown in the automobile sector was made to "defame" the country, a BJP member said in the Lok Sabha on Thursday and wondered how it could be true when there were traffic jams on roads. Participating in a debate on agriculture, Virendra Singh Mast, the Bharatiya Janata…
A rape survivor from Unnao was battling for life with 90 per cent burns on Thursday after five men, including two of the accused, allegedly set her on fire while she was on her way to court, police said. One of the two men accused of raping her last year…
A special court here on Thursday declared diamantaire Nirav Modi, the key accused in the USD 2 billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case, a fugitive economic offender, on a plea of the Enforcement Directorate. He is the second businessman after Vijay Mallya to be declared a fugitive economic offender…
The ruling AIADMK held a peace rally here on Thursday to mark the third death anniversary of late party supremo and Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and vowed to be united and win the upcoming polls to rural civic bodies in Tamil Nadu. Clad in black shirts, AIADMK coordinator and Deputy…
Congress leader P Chidambaram, who has been released from Tihar Jail on bail after 106 days in custody in the INX Media money-laundering case, was present in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. Chidambaram, who walked out of jail on Wednesday night, joined other Congress MPs voicing their protest against the…
Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was unusually silent on the state of economy and had left his ministers to indulge in "bluff and bluster". The former Union finance minister, who spent 106 days in jail and was released on bail on Wednesday, said the…
THE Rajya Sabha adjourned for half-an-hour on Thursday amid an uproar by the opposition parties, mainly the Congress, over the incident of the Unnao rape survivor set ablaze in Uttar Pradesh. Opposition parties raised the issue as soon as the House resumed in the afternoon to consider The Taxation Laws…
INDIA'S drugs regulator has asked all states to enforce a court directive prohibiting online medicine sales, a senior government official said on Wednesday (4), raising industry concerns it could disrupt some online businesses. India is yet to finalise regulations for online drug sales, or e-pharmacies, but the growth of several…
INDIA’S top court, Supreme Court on Wednesday (4) granted bail to country’s former finance minister, Congress leader P Chidambaram in a money laundering case related to INX Media and directed that he could not leave the country without its prior permission nor speak to the media. Chidambaram, who has been in custody…
FUGITIVE diamantaire Nirav Modi, fighting extradition to India on charges over the nearly $2 billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud and money laundering case, was further remanded in custody at a hearing on Wednesday (4) and asked to appear via videolink on January 2. Modi appeared for his regular 28-day "call-over" appearance…
