Washington DC, 14/9: Twitter shareholders on Tuesday voted to approve Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover bid. The vote came as Musk’s lead team is in a court battle to get out of the deal. Twitter confirmed that a preliminary count shows it has enough votes to approve the deal, reports The Verge.
Patna, 13/9:The Nitish Kumar government in Bihar was left embarrassed on Tuesday over the reported candid admission of rampant corruption by the state’s Minister for Agriculture Sudhakar Singh. Singh, whose remarks at a public meeting two days ago have gone viral, dug in his heels even as the BJP, which had been gunning…
New Delhi, 13/9:The apex child rights body NCPCR has asked the Election Commission to initiate necessary action and inquiry into a complaint against the Congress and Rahul Gandhi for allegedly “misusing children as political tools” in the party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights said it is in…
Chandigarh, 13/9: The ruling AAP in Punjab on Tuesday accused the BJP of offering Rs 20-25 crore each to its 10 MLAs in an attempt to topple the Bhagwant Mann government in the state. Addressing the media here, Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema alleged that under the BJP’s ‘Operation Lotus’, some AAP…
New Delhi, 13/9: After his shows scheduled for later this month were called off over threats by right-wing organisations, stand-up comic Kunal Kamra stated that artistes in India are operating under fear. The comedian, known for his socio-political humour, told NDTV that “the spontaneity that any art form has is killed” in the current…
Beijing, 13/9: The Indian and the Chinese armies on Tuesday completed the disengagement process in Gogra Heights-Hot Springs area near Patrolling Point-15 in eastern Ladakh sector, reported ANI quoting sources. The two sides have also completed verification of each others positions adapter pulling back troops from friction point.
Kolkata, 13/9: BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari, leader of the Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, and MP Locket Chatterjee were detained by the police in Kolkata while they were on their way to the party’s protest march outside the state secretariat Nabanna on Tuesday. Party leader Rahul Sinha was also detained and whisked away in a…
Paris, 13/9: Film director Jean-Luc Godard, the godfather of France’s New Wave cinema, died on Tuesday aged 91, French newspaper Liberation said, citing people close to the Franco-Swiss director. Godard was among the world’s most acclaimed directors, known for such classics as “Breathless” and “Contempt”, that pushed cinematic boundaries and inspired iconoclastic directors decades…
Ahmedabad, 13/9: Campaigning in Gujarat ahead of the state Assembly polls, Aam Aadmi Party’s national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said that Congress is finished and the party is no longer relevant so their allegations hold little value. He was addressing a press conference to highlight that the state is suffering from high levels of…
J&K, 13/9: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raids were underway at 33 locations across the country on Tuesday in connection with irregularities in the exams for Jammu and Kashmir Police Sub-Inspectors (JKPSI), a top official said. According to the official, the raids are going on in Jammu, Srinagar, Karnal, Mahendergarh, Rewari, Delhi, Ghaziabad and Bengaluru….
