Chandigarh, 19/5: Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu can contest future elections despite the Supreme Court sentencing him to one-year jail in a 1988 road rage case, a legal expert said on Thursday, citing provisions of the electoral law. “If the sentence was two years or more, then he would have been disqualified from…
Mumbai, 19/5: E-commerce platform for pre-owned vehicles Cars24 has cut nearly 600 jobs in India, which the company on Thursday described as “performance-linked exits”. Cars24, which also has presence in the Middle East, Australia and Southeast Asia, employs around 9,000 people in India. “This is business-as-usual performance-linked exits that happen every year,”…
Chandigarh, 19/5: Former Punjab Congress President Sunil Jakhar joined the BJP on Thursday in the presence of party chief J P Nadda, days after he quit the grand old party. Welcoming him in the BJP, Nadda said Jakhar had enjoyed a special stature in Punjab that was independent of the Congress party and…
New Delhi,19/5: Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik was officially convicted by a special NIA court in Delhi today, May 19, in the terror funding case in Jammu and Kashmir. Malik had previously pled guilty to the charges against him and was officially convicted today.
New Delhi, 19/5: The Supreme Court on Thursday granted interim bail to jailed Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan in a cheating case. A bench headed by Justice L Nageswara Rao invoked its special power under Article 142 of the Constitution to grant relief to Khan in view of the peculiar facts of the…
Rajajinagar, 19/5:Dr Shetty’s Cosmetic Centre in Rajajinagar, which has come under the scanner for the death of 21-year-old Kannada actress Chethana Raj on the operating table, has a polyclinic licence that does not permit performing surgeries, revealed to the state health department on Wednesday. Prima facie, it’s a violation, said Health Commissioner D…
New Delhi, 19/5: Domestic cooking gas LPG price was on Thursday hiked by Rs 3.50 per cylinder, the second increase in rates this month. Non-subsidised LPG now costs Rs 1,003 per 14.2-kg cylinder in the national capital, according to a price notification of state fuel retailers. The hike comes on the back…
Washington DC, 18/5:Amid the ongoing slugfest between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Parag Agrawal, more Twitter executives have moved on, apparently sensing what may come their way at the micro-blogging platform in the near future. Ilya Brown, a VP of product management for health, conversation and growth; Katrina Lane, a VP of Twitter…
Moscow, 18/5: Russia said on Wednesday nearly 700 more Ukrainian fighters had surrendered in Mariupol, but Kyiv was silent about their fate, while a pro-Russian separatist leader said commanders were still holed up in tunnels beneath the giant Azovstal steelworks. More than a day after Kyiv announced it had ordered its garrison in…
Kolkata, 18/5: The West Bengal government on Wednesday received two jolts — one after the other at the Calcutta High Court, pertaining to the recruitment irregularities in the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC). On the one hand, a division bench of Justice Subrata Talukdar and Justice Ananda Kumar Mukherjee upheld the earlier…
