THE Enforcement Directorate on Friday raided the premises of businessman Raj Kundra, the husband of actor Shilpa Shetty, and some others as part of a money laundering case linked to alleged distribution of pornographic and adult movies, official sources said. Around 15 locations in Mumbai and some cities in Uttar…
THE SUPREME COURT on Friday asked the Sambhal trial court not to pass any order related to the survey of a Mughal-era mosque while directing the Uttar Pradesh government to maintain peace and harmony in the violence-hit town. A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Sanjay Kumar ordered the…
A CASE has been registered against four doctors here for allegedly failing to detect a serious malformation in a newborn while it was in the mother's womb, the police said on Thursday. The accused are two female doctors attached to the Kadappuram Government Women and Child Hospital in Alappuzha along…
THE GUJARAT police have arrested four employees of a private sector bank and their accomplice for allegedly helping international cyber criminals in opening bank accounts without KYC and transferring proceeds of crime though them, an official said. The fraud came to light during an investigation by the Ahmedabad Cyber Crime…
‘WORRISOME’, ‘painful’, ‘what is the problem’… the rift over a claim that the famed shrine of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti was built over a Shiva temple widened on Thursday with politicians, community leaders and others weighing in on the potentially volatile issue. On Wednesday, a local court in Ajmer,…
DEPOSED prime minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina on Thursday condemned the arrest of Hindu spiritual leader Chinmoy Krishna Das and said the leader must be released immediately. Das who was taken into custody earlier this week on sedition charges. "A top leader of the Sanatan religious community has been unjustly…
THE SUPREME COURT on Thursday refused to relax emergency measures under Stage 4 of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) to deal with air pollution in the national capital, ordering it to continue till December 2 even as the Centre said the AQI was in "manageable limits". A bench of…
AIR INDIA'S transformation journey is a cricket Test match and not a T20, and currently, it is like lunch on the third day of a Test match, the airline's Chief Campbell Wilson said on Thursday. Tata Group-owned Air India has embarked on an ambitious five-year transformation plan 'Vihaan.AI' and little…
AUSTRALIA have added uncapped all-rounder Beau Webster to their squad for the second Test against India as cover for Mitchell Marsh, whose fitness remains a concern. Marsh had pulled up "sore" following Australia's 295-run hammering in the series opener in Perth earlier this week. Webster, also a right-hand pace all-rounder…
BANKS in India are reviewing their Adani exposure and whether they need to tighten due diligence, eight bankers said on Thursday, after the group's billionaire founder Gautam Adani was indicted by U.S. authorities over an alleged $265 million bribery scheme. Adani and seven others are accused by U.S. authorities of…