- Sunday, April 20, 2025
THE Congress alleged on Thursday that the Modi government has been "caught snooping" after WhatsApp said that journalists and human rights activists in India have been targets of surveillance, as it urged the Supreme Court to hold the Centre accountable over the issue. Facebook-owned WhatsApp said Indian journalists and human…
STEPPING into the record books as the first lieutenant governors of two new union territories, G C Murmu was on Thursday sworn in as lieutenant governor of Jammu and Kashmir and R K Mathur of Ladakh. The union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, have been carved out of…
BILLIONAIRE Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio on Thursday strongly opposed any bailout to telecom companies at taxpayer's expense, and asserted that telcos should be mandated to deposit their dues within the court-stipulated timeline of three months, as they have the capacity to comfortably clear their liabilities. In a letter to Telecom…
INDIAN banks are at risk of losing over $9 billion in revenues over the next six years because of the changes in the payments landscape, a consultancy firm said on Thursday. Payments will become "more instant, invisible and free" in the next few years, which will put the revenues of…
TIHAR jail authorities have informed the Nirbhaya gang-rape case convicts that they have exhausted all legal remedies and are only left with the provision of filing a mercy petition against the death sentence before the President, officials said on Thursday. In a notice issued to the four convicts in the…
GERMANY and India are likely to sign agreements including a partnership on the use of artificial intelligence in farming during a three-day visit to New Delhi by Chancellor Angela Merkel that begins on Thursday (31), the German ambassador said. Merkel will be accompanied by several cabinet colleagues and a business…
SOME doctors and residents urged New Delhi authorities to shut schools and cancel outdoor sporting events in the Indian capital as air pollution remained at the most severe level for the second day running on Wednesday (30). Farm fires raging in neighbouring states have sent clouds of smoke floating over…
E-COMMERCE giant Amazon has pumped around Rs 45 billion (£493 million) into its verticals in India. The American company is investing in its Indian subsidiaries to boost its operation in one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Documents filed with the country’s Registrar of Companies showed that the…
BUSINESSMAN Raj Kundra, husband of actor Shilpa Shetty, appeared before the ED on Wednesday in connection with a money laundering probe against late gangster Iqbal Mirchi and others, officials said. They said Kundra arrived at the Enforcement Directorate office here in Ballard Pier area at about 11 am. He was…
HISTORY will be created on Thursday (31) when Jammu and Kashmir, which has been part of the Union of India since 1947, will cease to be a state and will be bifurcated into two union territories. Indian administrative service (IAS) officers Girish Chandra Murmu and R K Mathur, who have…
