- Sunday, February 23, 2025
THE all-party meeting that prime minister Narendra Modi convened on Thursday (24) with political leaders of Jammu and Kashmir in New Delhi concluded after over three hours and the invited leaders later told the media that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre expressed commitment to the restoration…
INDIA'S enforcement directorate has summoned top fashion designers Sabyasachi, Ritu Kumar and Manish Malhotra for questioning in connection with an investigation into money-laundering allegations against Sukhpal Singh Khaira, a Congress member of the legislative assembly (MLA) of the northern state of Punjab. The MLA, who was earlier in the Aam…
THE Karnataka High Court on Thursday (24) gave interim relief to Twitter India Managing Director Manish Maheshwari against a notice in connection with a recent assault on an elderly Muslim man. The court asked the Ghaziabad Police not to take any coercive steps against Maheshwari and said that if the…
PRIME minister Narendra Modi, who has time and again given call for India to become self-sufficient ('Atmanirbhar Bharat'), on Thursday (23) said about 80 per cent of the toys that the country imports was sending billions of rupees abroad and asserted that the situation must change. He said it is…
THE Indian National Congress, the main opposition to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), seems to be more desperate to make an impact in times of the Covid-19 pandemic. On Thursday, Congress president Sonia Gandhi told party leaders and workers to put pressure on the Narendra Modi government to speed…
Shubham Ghosh FORMER Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday (24) appeared before a magisterial court in Surat in the western Indian state of Gujarat to record his final statement in a criminal defamation suit filed by a state legislator over his two-year-old remark on the Modi surname. He had asked…
Shubham Ghosh THE Madras High Court on Tuesday (22) asked the government of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu to inspect a Renault-Nissan plant on July 3 to assess whether social-distancing norms are being observed. The first bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy passed the…
INDIA'S National Companies Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Tuesday (22) approved the revival plan for Jet Airways, which was submitted by a consortium of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based Murari Lal Jalan and Kalrock Capital. According to a report in Khaleej Times, the move cleared the way for the grounded carrier’s…
Shubham Ghosh Former Labour peer Lord Ahmed is set to face a retrial after the Court of Appeal overturned a decision to halt proceedings against him in connection with child sex abuse charges. The 64-year-old leader from Rotherham went on trial under his real name Nazir Ahmed in February and…
A BROTHER and sister who came up with an idea to sell a popular street snack in India have revealed how they were inspired to launch the business. Debajyoti Saha and his sister Jyotirmoyee, both engineers by training, started selling golgappas, called fuchka in Bengali, to provide for their family during the Covid-19…
