New Delhi3/6: A raging fire in a ‘bed and breakfast’ hotel operating without a fire NOC in a congested bylane in south Delhi on Wednesday morning snuffed out lives from 21 people, including 11 foreigners who came to India as bystanders for their relatives undergoing treatment in nearby hospitals.The blaze broke out at the Flourish…
New Delhi, 3/6: At least 21 people, many of them from Central Asia and Africa, were killed in a tragic fire in a bed and breakfast hotel in south Delhi on Wednesday morning, officials said. The fire broke at Flourish Stay B&B in Malviya Nagar at around 8:48 AM following which eight fire tenders were…
Bengaluru, 3/6: Congress veteran D K Shivakumar took oath as the 24th chief minister of Karnataka on Wednesday at a ceremony held at the Lok Bhavan in Bengaluru. He was admitted the oath of office and secrecy by Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot. Senior Congress leader G Parameshwara also took oath as a minister in the D…
Kolkata,3/6As many as 58 dissident TMC MLAs backed expelled legislator Ritabrata Banerjee as the leader of the legislature party and conveyed their decision to West Bengal Assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose on Wednesday, a move that could redraw the opposition’s power structure in the house.Sources said that Banerjee, along with fellow rebel MLA Sandipan Saha and…
Washington DC, 3/6: The US Trade Representative (USTR) has proposed slapping 12.5 per cent additional duties on 54 countries, including India, for failing to prohibit the import of goods produced with forced labour. The action comes after investigations were launched against 60 countries over what the USTR described as their failure to impose and effectively…
New Delhi, 3/6′:The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may have offloaded a portion of its gold holdings to shield its foreign-currency assets from the cascading fallout of the war in the Middle East, according to an analysis by Bloomberg Economics based on publicly available data. The RBI likely sold gold reserves worth roughly $12 billion…
Chennai, 2/6: Former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai on Tuesday submitted his resignation to party chief Nitin Nabin, but the High Command is believed to have asked him to “reconsider” his decision and stay put in New Delhi until further orders. Annamalai, who has been upset with the party’s alliance with the AIADMK and…
New Delhi, 2/6: In a significant ruling promoting gender equality, the Supreme Court on Tuesday held that a daughter’s marital status cannot be used as a ground to deny her the benefits of a welfare scheme if she is otherwise eligible.A bench of Justices P S Narasimha and Alok Aradhe observed that the assumption that…
New Delhi, 2/6: A day before DK Shivakumar will be sworn in as Karnataka Chief Minister, his predecessor Siddaramaiah was on Tuesday night appointed a member of the Congress Working Committee, the highest decision-making body of the party. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has appointed Siddaramaiah as a member of the CWC, Congress General Secretary (Organisation)…
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested four promoters of a real estate group in connection with a money laundering probe into an alleged Rs 2,004-crore homebuyer fraud that affected more than 19,000 buyers and investors. The accused – Avdhesh Kumar Goel, Rajnish Mittal, Atul Gupta and Vikas Gupta – are promoters/directors of Earth Infrastructures Ltd. …
