- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Justice Uday Umesh Lalit was on Wednesday (10) appointed as the 49th Chief Justice of India (CJI). A release from the country's law and justice ministry said that president Droupadi Murmu appointed Justice Lalit as the next CJI. He take over his new responsibility on August 27, succeeding NV Ramana.…
Indian commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal, who said last month that the latest political developments in Britain did not impact the ongoing negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between New Delhi and London, on Tuesday (10) said the negotiations were fast moving forward. Speaking at the Vyaparai Udyami…
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), India's civil aviation regulator, has decided to scrap the prevailing fare caps on tickets of the country's domestic airlines from the last day of August 2022. In a notification, the DGCA said, "After review of the current status of Scheduled Domestic Operations viz-a-viz…
Indian companies are using Asian currencies more often to pay for Russian coal imports, according to customs documents and industry sources, avoiding the US dollar and cutting the risk of breaching Western sanctions against Moscow. Reuters previously reported on a large Indian coal deal involving the Chinese yuan, but the…
In a shocking incident, a professor of a reputed university in Kolkata in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal was allegedly forced to quit from her post after a parent of one of her students complained to the institution's authorities about her pictures in swimsuit that were on display…
A YouGov poll of party members completed on August 2 shows Rishi Sunak to be trailing Liz Truss 31 per cent to 69 per cent in the Conservative leadership contest. A similar poll completed on July 21 had him on 38 per cent to her 62 per cent. She appears…
Varun Gandhi, a parliamentarian of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took a veiled dig his own party's government on Wednesday (10) over a video showing several people complaining that they were forced to buy a National Flag for Rs 20 (£0.21) when they went to ration shops for provisions.…
The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday (10) gave a big relief to former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Nupur Sharma by agreeing to her request to club all police cases filed against her so that she could avoid the challenge of defending herself in different states of the country.…
Love can be blind and unconditional, as they say, but sometimes, it could be potentially fatal as well. Recently, a teenage girl from the north-eastern Indian state of Assam proved it. How? She injected herself with blood taken from her boyfriend who is HIV positive. The girl, who hails from…
Nine people, including eight women farm labourers, were killed on Tuesday (9) afternoon when an autorickshaw, a popular three-wheel commercial vehicle in India, collided with a government bus on National Highway-60 in Birbhum district of the eastern state of West Bengal, police sources said. The incident took place at Mallarpur…
