UK, 7/7: Even before Boris Johnson stepped out of 10 Downing Street on Thursday to deliver his resignation speech as Conservative Party leader, triggering a leadership race for a new British prime minister, the runners and riders had been lining up to compete for the top job. Indian-origin Suella Braverman, currently the Attorney…
Patna, 7/7:A young academician in Bihar is hogging limelight for having sought to return a sum of over Rs 20 lakh that he had earned towards salary and other emoluments in the last two years and nine months. Lalan Kumar, 33, who teaches Hindi literature at a college under the Baba Saheb Bhim…
New Delhi, 7/7: A court here awarded two-year imprisonment to Bollywood actor and Congress leader Raj Babbar in a case involving the assault of a polling officer. Babbar was convicted for voluntarily causing hurt to deter a public servant from performing his duty and three other offences. The court also imposed a fine of Rs…
Bangalore, 7/7: An FIR has been filed at the Kolar town police station for offensive remarks on Quran. Zameer Aamad, president of Anjuman-e-Islamia in Kolar, has filed the complaint against Hindu Jagarana Vedike leader Keshava Murthi and others.
UK, 7/7: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to resign on Thursday, with his office saying he will make a statement to the country. “Boris Johnson will resign as Conservative Party leader today,” BBC Political Editor Chris Mason said on Twitter. Johnson had been hanging onto power despite the resignation of…
New Delhi, 7/7:A new sub-lineage BA.2.75 of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus has been detected in countries like India and the World Health Organisation is following this, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. “On Covid-19, globally reported cases have increased nearly 30 per cent over the past two weeks. Four out of six of the…
Washington DC, 7/7:Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk and Shivon Zilis, a top executive at his brain-chip startup Neuralink, had twins in November of 2021, Business Insider reported on Wednesday. In April, Musk and Zilis filed a petition to change the name of the twins to “have their father’s last name” and contain…
New Delhi,7/7:The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair’s bail petition tomorrow (July 8). A case was filed against him over a 2018 tweet in which allegedly called Hindu seers as ‘hate mongers’. He has challenged the Allahabad High Court’s order refusing to quash the FIR registered…
New Delhi, 7/7:A day before their Rajya Sabha terms were coming to an end, Union Minister for Minority Affairs and BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Union Steel Minister and JD(U) leader Ram Chandra Prasad Singh tendered their resignations to the prime minister. While there is no official word, there is speculation that Naqvi could…
Patna, 7/7:RJD president Lalu Prasad was admitted to the premier AIIMS in Delhi Wednesday night after being airlifted from a Patna hospital where he underwent initial treatment for multiple fractures suffered due to a fall, party sources said. The 74-year-old former Bihar chief minister was accompanied by a team of doctors and his eldest daughter…
