Mumbai, 14/8: Salman Rushdie is off the ventilator and is talking, the president of Chautauqua Institution, where the Mumbai-born author was stabbed at an event onstage, said. “@SalmanRushdie off ventilator and talking! Continued prayers from all @chq,” Chautauqua Institution president Chautauqua Institution said in a tweet on Saturday night.
New Delhi: Sulakshana Pramod Sawant, wife of Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, has filed a Rs 100 crore defamation suit against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh, accusing the MP of making defamatory statements linking her to a “Cash-for-Jobs Scam” in Goa during a press conference on December 4.Sulakshana Pramod Sawant filed the defamation suit…
New Delhi, 27/9: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is conducting raids in over eight states and at multiple locations linked to the Popular Front of India (PFI) members on Tuesday. Sources said that more than 50 people have been detained and the arrests will depend on their questioning. Raids were going on…
New Delhi, 17/7: India on Thursday said it is in touch with local authorities in Yemen as well as with certain friendly nations in finding a solution to the case of Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse on death row. Priya’s execution was scheduled for July 16 but it was postponed. The nurse, hailing from Kollengode…
Washington DC, 11/11:After making a promise on Twitter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sold about 900,000 shares of the electric car maker’s stock, netting over $1.1 billion that will go toward paying tax obligations for stock options. The sales, disclosed in two regulatory filings late Wednesday, will cover tax obligations for stock options granted…
Bhubaneswar: A team from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) visited Capital Hospital here on Tuesday as part of its ongoing investigation into the Azadnagar bomb explosion case.Sources said the NIA officials went to the hospital to collect important medical records and other relevant details related to the accused and his associate, who were rushed to…
New Delhi, 26/9: Nearly a month after his exit from the Congress, Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday announced the name of his new party and the organization’s flag in Jammu. Stating that he has no enemies and only opponents in politics, Azad said the new party would be called the “Democratic Azad Party” (DAP) and…
New Delhi, 24/7: The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the Bombay High Court’s July 21 judgment wherein the latter acquitted all the 12 convicts in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case. The apex court has directed that the accused, released from jail, would not be arrested for now. A bench led by Justice M M…
New Delhi, 8/5: Kanimozhi’s letter seeking separate seating arrangement for DMK MPs in Lok Sabha and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav’s cryptic post on not abandoning one in times of difficulty after Congress’ support to TVK on Friday laid bare the the troubles in the now fragile I.N.D.I.A. bloc, even as Left parties and VCK…
Mumbai, 11/3: India’s foreign exchange reserves rose by $ 1.46 billion to $ 562.4 billion as of March 3, arresting the four successive weeks of fall, the Reserve Bank of India said. The forex reserves had fallen by $15.8 billion during the preceding four weeks. In the previous week ending February 24, the…
