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New Delhi: Former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma who was suspended from the party following outrage over her comments on Prophet has been granted the licence to carry a personal gun. Nupur Sharma had applied for a gun licence as she has been receiving death threats, a Delhi Police official confirmed the development on Thursday. In … Read more
Bengaluru: A government agency has accused the local unit of South Korea’s Samsung Electronics of evading import taxes worth 17.28 billion rupees ($212 million) by misclassifying a product, the Economic Times reported today. The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) said Samsung India Electronics Ltd misclassified networking devices called remote radio heads to avail undue exemption … Read more
New Delhi: India and the United States will increase dialogue on food and agricultural trade issues in 2023, both governments said in a joint statement today after a trade policy forum meeting in Washington D.C. The two countries also decided to create a new trade policy forum working group on resilient trade, and to continue … Read more
Washington: The Modi government and the Biden administration are “thinking big” in terms of their trade and commerce relationship, Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday as he ruled out the previously talked about mini trade deal or a free trade agreement and noted that revoking of GSP is not a priority … Read more
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid tributes to Swami Vivekananda on his birth anniversary and said his great ideals and ideas will continue to guide the countrymen. READ | PM Modi’s massive education push; Yale, Oxford, Stanford to open in India His life, patriotism, spiritualism and dedication will always inspire, PM Modi … Read more
Jaipur: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said it is the energy of the young minds which motivates the country to keep moving forward. She also said the country now has a leadership that is not corrupt and works for the good of the people. “It is so invigorating. I am so touched by the … Read more
Jammu: Extending support to the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra which is scheduled to enter Jammu and Kashmir next week, Shiv Sena leader Manish Sahni on Wednesday said they will join the march in Jammu. READ | Bharat Jodo Yatra: Rahul Gandhi visits Fatehgarh Sahib Gurudwara in Punjab Mr Sahni, president of the J-K unit … Read more
Lakshadweep: A court in Lakshadweep on Wednesday sentenced four people, including Lakshadweep MP Mohammed Faizal to 10 years in jail in connection with an attempt to murder case. Lawyers associated with the case said the District and Sessions Court in Kavaratti also imposed a fine of ₹ one lakh each on the convicts in the … Read more
New Delhi: Real estate tycoon Sushil Ansal, convicted in the 1997 Uphaar cinema fire case, Wednesday, contended before the Delhi High Court that web series ‘Trial by Fire’, stated to be based on the incident and scheduled for release on Netflix on January 13, directly attacks his personality. Ansal urged the court to grant an … Read more
Punjab: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi paid obeisance at Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib Wednesday morning before beginning Punjab leg of the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’. He sported a turban and wore a half-sleeved T-shirt to the place of worship. READ | ‘If it’s Modi versus Kejriwal or Rahul Gandhi, PM would be at advantage’: Owaisi Mr Gandhi was … Read more
Houston: Indian-origin Manpreet Monica Singh has been sworn in as a Harris county judge, becoming the first female Sikh judge in the US. Singh was born and raised in Houston and now lives in Bellaire with her husband and two children. She was sworn in as a judge of the Harris County Civil Court at … Read more
The governments of India and the U.K. marked Pravasi Bharatiya Divas on January 9, 2023, by kicking off the Young Professionals Scheme, which will permit up to 3,000 of their degree-holding citizens aged between 18 and 30 to live and work in each other’s countries for a period of two years. The launch of the … Read more
In an ongoing litigation between a plot allottee and the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA), the GNIDA Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Ritu Maheshwari has been sentenced to one month in jail as well as an order for her arrest has been issued. A warrant to arrest Maheshwari has been issued to the Gautam Budh … Read more
Reliance Jio on Monday announced the launch of its True 5G services across 10 cities — Agra, Kanpur, Meerut, Prayagraj, Tirupati, Nellore, Kozhikode, Thrissur, Nagpur, Ahmednagar. Jio said its users in these cities would be invited to the Jio Welcome Offer, to experience unlimited data at up to 1Gbps speeds, at no additional cost, starting … Read more
Mumbai: The rupee rose 18 paise to 82.17 against the US dollar in early trade on Tuesday on easing crude oil prices. Forex traders said sustained foreign fund outflows and a weak trend in domestic equities weighed on investor sentiments and restricted the appreciation bias. At the interbank foreign exchange, the domestic unit opened at … Read more