Islamabad, 28/12: Pakistan’s election commission on Thursday accepted former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s nomination for the 2024 elections, weeks after a court overturned two graft convictions, ARY News reported. But Sharif still needs the removal of a life ban on holding any public office to qualify to stand, so it was not immediately clear how…
Mumbai, 28/12: Purchase of three plots of land in Haryana in 2005-06 by Congress leader Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra from a real estate agent is being probed along with a land deal made by his wife Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the ED claimed in a recently filed money laundering case. The federal agency filed the…
Doha, 28/12: A Qatar Court has commuted the death sentence given to eight former Indian Navy personnel in an alleged case of espionage, the External Affairs Ministry said on Thursday. We have noted the verdict today of the Court of Appeal of Qatar in the Dahra Global case, in which the sentences have been reduced,”…
Kolkata, 28/12: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday conducted simultaneous raids at nine different places in the city in connection with its investigation into the alleged teachers’ recruitment scam, a senior official said. Nine teams of ED officers conducted raids at offices and residences of different people located in the city’s busy Burrabazar area, Kakurgachi…
Chennai, 28/12: Vijayakanth, who displayed extraordinary guts by taking the plunge into politics when M Karunanidhi and J Jayalalithaa dominated the political landscape in Tamil Nadu like a colossus after a successful and enriching two-and-a-half-decade stint in the politics passes away. The founder of Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) was 71 and is survived by…
Mumbai, 27/12: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will embark on Bharat Nyay Yatra (Justice for India) from Manipur to Mumbai between January 14 and March 20. The yatra will cover 6,200 km and span 14 states and 85 districts. The hybrid yatra will cover Manipur, Nagaland , Meghalaya, Assam, Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, UP, MP,…
New Delhi, 26/12: Commonwealth and Asian Games gold medallist Vinesh Phogat has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in which she has announced that she is returning the state honours—Khel Ratna and Arjuna Award—which she had received. Earlier, wrestler Sakshi Malik had announced that she is giving up the sport while Bajrang Punia…
Pilibhit, 26/12: Unfazed by the presence of people gathered on nearby rooftops to watch the spectacle, a tiger sat on top of a wall yawning and basking in the winter sun on Tuesday, before being rescued by forest officials in a village outside the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve.Unlike usual man-animal encounters, this tiger – not older…
New Delhi, 26/12: With six more cases of Covid-19 sub-variant JN.1, the number of infections of the new variant reported in the country have risen to 69, official sources said on Tuesday. Most of these patients are currently in home isolation and there was no increase in hospitalisation rates, they said.
Gaja, 26/12: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to keep fighting in Gaza until Hamas is destroyed, defying global calls for a ceasefire amid concerns the conflict could spread with U.S. and Iran-aligned forces again attacking each other. Netanyahu, who visited Israeli troops in northern Gaza on Monday, told lawmakers from his Likud Party…
