New Delhi, 17/6:British interior minister Priti Patel on Friday approved the extradition of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange to the United States to face criminal charges, bringing his long-running legal saga closer to a conclusion. Assange is wanted by US authorities on 18 counts, including a spying charge, relating to WikiLeaks’ release of vast…
Beijing, 17/6:China has put a hold in the UN at the last moment on a joint proposal by India and the US to list Pakistan-based militant Abdul Rehman Makki as a global terrorist under Al Qaida Sanctions Committee of the Security Council. Makki is a US-designated terrorist and brother-in-law of Lashkar-e-Taiba head and…
Patna, 17/6:Amid protest against new military recruitment scheme Agnipath, a mob on Friday morning set two coaches of a passenger train on fire in Bihar, according to multiple media reports. According to reports, the coaches of the Jammu Tawi Express train were set on fire at Mohiuddinagar station of Hajipur-Barauni railway line. …
Mumbai, 16/6: The RBI on Thursday lifted restrictions on Mastercard that it had imposed last year for failing to comply with local data storage norms. The central bank had barred the US-based payment gateway from onboarding new customers until it complies with Storage of Payment System Data norms. “In view of the…
New Delhi, 16/6:Former Union Minister and senior Congress leader Renuka Chowdhury was on Thursday seen allegedly grabbing the collar of a police official during a protest here by the party against the grilling of top party leader Rahul Gandhi by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a money laundering case pertaining to the National…
Bhubaneswar, 16/6: In a major development Odisha government has inflicted a major reshuffle in IAS cadre.Ganjam Collector and District Magistrate Kulange Vijay Amruta has been transferred and appointed as Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation Commissioner, while Senior IAS officer Nikhil Pavan Kalyan, Collector and District Magistrate of Sundargarh, has been appointed as Commissioner of Cuttack Municipal Corporation….
Mumbai, 16/6:Manish Tiwary had only been in his new job as head of Amazon.com Inc’s India business a couple of months when he faced a weighty decision: How aggressively should the US ecommerce giant bid for media rights to the Indian Premier League? Securing digital streaming rights to the cricket tournament would be a…
New Delhi, 16/6: No change is being done to the Army’s regimental system under the ‘Agnipath’ scheme and the numbers of personnel to be recruited in the first year of its roll out would only make up three per cent of the armed forces, government sources said on Thursday amid wide-spread protest against the new…
New Delhi, 16/6:The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Uttar Pradesh government to file a response on pleas by Jamiat-Ulama-I-Hind and others seeking directions to state government authorities to ensure that no further demolitions of properties are carried out in State without following due process. The apex court has asked the Uttar Pradesh…
Patna, 16/6:Protests broke out in several parts of Bihar on Thursday as Armed forces aspirants hit the streets against the recently announced Agnipath recruitment scheme. The protesters disrupted the traffic movement, burnt tyres and vandalised buses during the protest.
