New Delhi, 5/8: Several Congress MPs including Rahul Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor and K C Venugopal have been detained by police during a protest against the Central government on price rise and unemployment. The Congress MPs were marching towards the Rashtrapati Bhawan from the Parliament. “All Congress MPs were marching towards Rashtrapati Bhawan to…
New Delhi, 5/8: The Delhi Police has denied permission to the Congress for holding a protest in the national capital on Friday, citing that prohibitory orders are in place in New Delhi district, officials said. The Congress has planned a mass protest against price rise, unemployment and the GST hike on essential items…
UK, 5/8: Rishi Sunak on Thursday appeared to score a surprise win with a studio audience at a key debate with frontrunner Liz Truss in the race to become Britain’s next prime minister. While opinion polls back Truss to win the vote among Conservative party members, those sitting in the audience at the Sky…
New Delhi, 5/8: The Reserve Bank of India hiked the policy repo rate by 50 basis points to 5.4 per cent on Friday and revised its inflation forecast to 6.7% in 2022-23. RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das further announced that the real GDP growth projection for 2022-23 has been retained at 7.2 per cent…
Washington DC, 4/8: US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Japan on Thursday for the final stop on her Asian tour, following a visit to Taiwan that incensed China. AFP reporters saw the politician disembark from her plane at Yokota Air Base in Tokyo, before greeting the US ambassador and other officials with…
New Delhi, 4/8: Five women officers of the Indian Navy have undertaken the first all-women reconnaissance and surveillance mission in the Arabian Sea in a Dornier-228 aircraft, breaking yet another barrier for women in the military. While the mission commander was Lt Cdr Aanchal Sharma, a trained observer, the aircraft was piloted by Lt…
Bhubaneswar, 4/8: Managing Director and CEO of Union Bank Ms A. Manimekhalai today called on Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik at Naveen Nivas. Both of them discussed on a wide range of topics including financial inclusion of the poor and disadvantaged. The Chief Minister asked Ms. Manimekhalai to enhance its financial support to farmers…
Mumbai, 4/8: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday issued summons to Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut’s wife Varsha Raut in connection with the Prevention of Money Laundering case pertaining to the Patra Chawl land case. The ED said that the summons were issued after transactions done on Varsha Raut’s account came to light. …
New Delhi, 4/8:The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached assets worth over Rs 40.14 crore of a Bengaluru-based company in connection with a money laundering investigation linked to a bank fraud case. The attached assets, which include residential apartments, plots, agricultural lands and bank deposits, belong to Kavveri Telecom Infrastructure Limited. The money laundering…
Cuttack, 4/8:In a major development, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials raided the residence and office of industrialist Mahima Mishra at Cuttack and Paradip on Thursday. Not only his office, Mishra’s residence at Odia Bazar in Cuttack and Odisha Stevedores Limited offices at Link Road and Badapadi in Paradip were raided.
