Bengaluru, 15/4: A Bengaluru court on Tuesday rejected the bail petition filed by a Ballari jeweller arrested in the infamous Ranya Rao gold smuggling case. The Special Court of Economic Offences judge Vishwanath Channabasappa Gowdar rejected the application filed by Sahil Sakariya Jain. “The bail application filed by accused 3 under section 480 of BNSS,…
Mullanpur, 15/4: Punjab Kings skipper Shreyas Iyer won the toss and elected to bat against Kolkata Knight Riders in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match here on Tuesday. KKR made one change to their playing XI, bringing in pacer Anrich Nortje in place of spin all-rounder Moeen Ali. PBKS have handed a debut to Australian…
Bhubaneswar, 15/4: A statue of former Odisha chief minister Biju Patnaik was on Tuesday set ablaze at Patnagarh town in Bolangir district, police said. The BJD, CPI and other Left parties condemned the incident. IGP (North Range) Himansu Kumar Lal said one man has been detained in the statue burning case. The IGP said the…
New Delhi, 15/4: In a big development, ED on Tuesday filed chargesheet against Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi in a money laundering case related to National Herald case.
Patna, 15/4: Former Union minister Pashupati Kumar Paras on Monday announced that his Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party was no longer with the BJP-led NDA, which has chosen to back his estranged nephew Chirag Paswan. Paras, whose party came into being in 2021 as a result of the split he engineered in the Lok Janshakti Party,…
Washington DC, 15/4: The Trump administration acted quickly Monday to punish Harvard University after it refused to comply with a list of demands from the federal government that the school said were too onerous. Monday afternoon, Harvard became the first university to refuse to comply with the administration’s requirements, setting up a showdown between the…
Bengaluru, 14/4: Strongly defending his government’s move to provide 4 per cent reservation for Muslims in public contracts, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday, questioning why shouldn’t it be done, said giving strength to anyone who are economically weak. Alleging that he is being labelled as anti-upper class, the CM said he stands with those…
Kolkata, 14/4: Supporters of the Indian Secular Front (ISF) on Monday clashed with the police at Bhangar in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district during protests over the Waqf (Amendment) Act, leading to several injuries and torching of multiple police vehicles. The clash erupted when police stopped ISF supporters from heading towards Ramlila Maidan in…
New Delhi, 14/4: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday accused the Modi government of paying only “lip service” to B R Ambedkar’s legacy but doing nothing to fulfil his wishes, and claimed the BJP-RSS were “enemies” of the architect of the Constitution. Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his criticism of the Congress’…
Yamunanagar, 14/4: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said there were blackouts when the Congress was in power before 2014 but India’s power production has doubled in the last decade and it is now exporting electricity. Addressing a gathering after laying the foundation stone of an 800-MW ultra-critical modern thermal power unit at the Deenbandhu…
