New Delhi, 11/2: Australia will be without Mitchell Marsh for their World Cup game against England this week after the all-rounder returned home to Perth for personal reasons, the country’s cricket board said on Thursday. Cricket Australia said a timeline on Marsh’s return to the squad “is to be confirmed” and it was not immediately…
New Delhi, 2/11: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will not appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday. He has been summoned in connection with the alleged Delhi excise liquor scam. Instead, Kejriwal will hold a road show, along with Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann, in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh. Ahead of his slated appearance, Kejriwal had…
New Delhi,1/11: The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned selective anonymity in the 2018 Electoral Bonds scheme, introduced for political parties to receive contributions, saying the problem was that it was not open for the general public, but it is not so for SBI. Examining validity of the scheme, a five-judge bench led by CJI D…
Kashmir, 1/11: Three Army personnel were injured in a landmine explosion near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Wednesday, officials said. The soldiers were patrolling Phagwari Gali area in Mendhar sector when the landmine got activated, the officials said quoting preliminary information. The injured were evacuated to a nearby…
New Delhi, 1/11: The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday said it has attached in London, Dubai and India assets worth Rs 503 crore of Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal, his family members and companies as part of a money laundering investigation linked to an alleged bank loan fraud. The attached properties include 17 residential flats, bungalows…
Subarnapur, 1/11: The combined efforts of faculty, researchers and scientist of P. G. Department of Zoology, Berhampur University, Odisha, and Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Odisha have let to the discovery of a new species of freshwater goby of the genus Awaous from Mahanadi River having a vibrant yellow coloured body…
Bangalore, 1/11: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday made a pitch for holding competitive exams for central government jobs in Kannada saying it is not possible to conduct them in Hindi or English alone. Addressing people at Kanteerava Stadium on the occasion of 68th Karnataka Rajyotsava, the Chief Minister said he would write to Prime…
Mumbai, 1/11: Maratha quota agitators vandalised Maharashtra cabinet minister Hasan Mushrif’s SUV parked in south Mumbai on Wednesday morning, police said. Three persons were detained by the Marine Drive police in this connection, an official said. Mushrif belongs to the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) faction led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar
New Delhi, 1/11: The central government is likely to resolve its impasse with West Bengal over MGNREGA dues following an intervention by Governor C V Ananda Bose, Raj Bhavan sources said. After TMC leaders, including Abhishek Banerjee, held meetings with Bose, he had intervened with Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Giriraj Singh and the…
