- Monday, April 21, 2025
THE SUPREME COURT on Tuesday dismissed a petition seeking to revert to ballot paper voting in elections in the country. "What happens is, when you win the election, EVMs (electronic voting machine) are not tampered. When you lose the election, EVMs are tampered (with)," remarked a bench of Justices Vikram…
SHASHIKANT RUIA, a first-generation entrepreneur who turned a small construction business into an infrastructure conglomerate, died after a prolonged illness. He was 80. Shashi Ruia, as he was fondly called, co-founded the metals-to-technology conglomerate Essar with his brother Ravi. Ruia, who would have turned 81 next month, died in Mumbai…
MAHARASHTRA chief minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday morning met governor C P Radhakrishnan here and tendered his resignation following the results of the assembly elections. The governor asked Shinde to act as a caretaker chief minister till the new CM is sworn in, as suspense continues over who would be…
BANGLADESH police on Monday arrested Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, a leader of the Hindu group Sammilita Sanatani Jote, from the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport area in Dhaka. "Das was detained in line with a request from (regular police)," spokesman of the Police's Detective Branch Rezaul Karim said. Karim said Das…
DANCE serves as the central theme connecting Sanya Malhotra to her role as Richa in Arati Kadav's film “Mrs”. The film, a Hindi adaptation of the acclaimed Malayalam movie “The Great Indian Kitchen” (2021), explores the journey of a professional dancer navigating life in a patriarchal household after marriage. Malhotra,…
ACTOR Taapsee Pannu has shared her thoughts on taking a backseat in films and the ease she felt working on Rajkumar Hirani’s 2023 directorial “Dunki”, a film headlined by Shah Rukh Khan. Speaking at Sahitya Aaj Tak, Pannu explained that she is comfortable doing roles where the pressure of leading…
INDIA'S domestic air passenger traffic grew 5.3 per cent to 13.6 million in October from 12.6 million in the same month last year, aviation regulator DGCA's monthly data showed on Tuesday. During the reporting month, budget carrier IndiGo carried 8.64 million passengers, clocking a market share of 63.3 per cent,…
THE SUPREME COURT on Monday asked the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) in the national capital region and adjoining areas to consider restarting physical classes in schools and colleges, noting students were being deprived of mid-day meals and lacked wherewithal to attend virtual classes. The restrictions on physical classes…
FLAMBOYANT Indian opener Prithvi Shaw and seam-bowling all-rounder Shardul Thakur failed to find any takers but Washington Sundar was bought by Gujarat Titans for ₹32 million (£301,655.26) on the second day of the IPL mega auction in Jeddah on Monday. Meanwhile, Mumbai Indians bought Afghanistan's mystery spinner Allah Ghazanfar for…
A WOMAN deputy superintendent of police has been booked after a woman lawyer in Bengaluru died by suicide accusing the officer of stripping her while conducting interrogation in the Karnataka Bhovi Development Corporation scam. She also accused the DySP of demanding ₹2.5 million (£23,597) bribe. The Banashankari police registered a…
