New Delhi, 7/3: The CBI on Tuesday questioned former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia’s personal assistant Devender Sharma in connection with alleged corruption in formulating and implementing of the now-scrapped excise policy for 2021-22, officials said. Sharma alias Rinku was summoned to the CBI headquarters where he was questioned by officials of…
Bhubaneswar, 7/3: Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik has expressed deep condolences at the passing away of eminent Odia Scientist Padmashree Professor Prafulla Kumar Jena. In his message, the Chief Minister said that Dr Jena was a genius scientist who encouraged, inspired scientific research, especially in metallurgy. With his sustained research, he has pioneered new…
Nagaland, 7/3: New cabinets headed by Neiphiu Rio and Conrad K Sangma will take oath in Nagaland and Meghalaya, respectively on Tuesday. In Meghalaya, 12 member cabinet headed by Sangma was sworn in in a ceremony that began around 11 am. Conrad Sangma took oath as the chief minister for a second straight…
Denmark, 6/3: NATO-member Denmark’s Defence Ministry on Monday banned its employees from having video-sharing app TikTok on their work phones as a cybersecurity measure. It’s the latest government-related ban over security and data privacy for the app, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd. In a statement, the ministry said the Scandinavian…
Tripura, ,6/3: Manik Saha was named as the next Chief Minister of the northeastern State of Tripura at a meeting of the BJP legislative party held here on Monday. A spokesperson of the BJP informed reporters after the meeting that the selection was unanimously endorsed by all MLAs of the party. Earlier, there…
New Delhi, 6/3: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said skilling the youth holds the key to India becoming the third-largest economy in the world from the fifth now. Virtually addressing a “Rozgar Mela”, or employment fair, organised by the Gujarat government at the Mahatma Mandir convention centre in Gandhinagar, Modi said nearly…
Arab, 6/3: Saudi Arabia said Monday it was depositing $5 billion in Turkey’s central bank, a potentially major boost as the country grapples with inflation and damage from last month’s earthquake ahead of presidential elections. Ahmed Al Khateeb, the Saudi tourism minister and board chairman of the Saudi Fund for Development, signed an…
New Delhi, 6/3: A court here on Monday extended the judicial custody by 14 days of Sahil Gehlot, accused of killing his girlfriend Nikki Yadav and stuffing her body into a fridge in southwest Delhi before being caught. The link court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samiksha Gupta also extended the judicial custody…
Mumbai, 6/3: Steve Smith will captain Australia in the fourth and final test against India starting Thursday as regular captain Pat Cummins remains in Sydney with his family, Cricket Australia said on Monday. Cummins returned home after the second test in New Delhi to be with his ailing mother after Australia had dropped…
Mumbai, 6/3: Markets opened on a positive note on Monday with Sensex up 514.97 points to 60,323.94 in early trade. Meanwhile, Nifty rose 149.95 points to 17,744.30. D-Street was aided by a rise in high-weightage financial and information technology stocks after strong economic data from the United States and investment in the Adani…
