The opposition hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday for not responding to allegations related to industrialist Gautam Adani, which they termed “the elephant in the room”, with former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi accusing Modi of “protecting” the billionaire. The opposition’s attack came after Modi said the trust…
Metropolitan Police officer Shanoor Ali is set to face a hearing at the International Dispute Resolution Centre in London between February 22 and 24 in connection to an accusation of misconduct against a woman. It has been alleged that Ali assaulted the woman on June 27, 2021, at a place…
Britain’s financial regulatory body is monitoring “potential links” between the investment firm Elara Capital and India’s Adani Group, a media report has said. Adani’s flagship firm Adani Enterprises last week abandoned its follow-on public offer (FPO) amid a crash in the share prices of the group companies triggered by American…
A Keralite transgender couple, who recently announced pregnancy, was blessed with a baby at a state-run hospital here on Wednesday, considered to be the first such case in the country. “The baby was born by around 9.30 am through a Cesarean Section at the Government Medical College Hospital,” Ziya Paval,…
The first Indian police officer of Milwaukee city in the United States has retired after serving 21 years in the force, a media report said. Balbir Mahay was honoured, and his career was celebrated on Sunday at the Oak Creek gurdwara in Wisconsin, where a tragic shootout in 2012 killed…
In one of the largest tax-settlement cases in Scotland, a 44-year-old man from East Lothian has been asked to pay back unpaid tax worth £600,000 following a raid at his residence and seizure of £1million from a number of his bank accounts. According to Daily Record, Goljar Singh was tracked…
Europe Snacks, a leading European producer of savoury snacks for third party brands, on Wednesday (8) announced the acquisition of 100 per cent of Burts Snacks. The operation will enable Europe Snacks to accelerate its growth in Europe’s largest snacking market. Supported by Apax Partners, Europe Snacks entered the UK…
PRIME MINISTERS are rarely short of advice. Few can ever have received quite so much of it as Rishi Sunak as he completes 100 days in office. There are now seven living former prime ministers, for the first time ever, compared to just three when Gordon Brown was in power.…
Former England captain Michael Vaughan will defend himself against racism allegations made by his former Yorkshire team-mate Azeem Rafiq while other individuals have opted out of the disciplinary hearing next month. Former Yorkshire player and bowling coach Richard Pyrah conveyed to officials he would not attend the hearing by the…
India’s Adani Group is considering an independent evaluation of issues relating to legal compliance, related party transactions and internal controls following a U.S. short-sellers critical report on its businesses, disclosures showed on Tuesday. The group, led by billionaire Gautam Adani, has been roiled by days of market turmoil after Hindenburg…