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…
New Delhi, 18/5: Anil Baijal, who shared a rocky relationship with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, has resigned as Delhi Lieutenant Governor citing personal reasons after having served a long tenure of five years and four months. Sources said 75-year-old Baijal, a former Union Home Secretary who was linked to influential right-wing think-tank Vivekananda…
New Delhi, 18/5:The rupee fell 16 paise to close at a record low of 77.60 against the US dollar on Wednesday, It had opened 6 paise lower as a surging American currency in the overseas markets and persistent foreign fund outflows weighed on investor sentiment.
