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Sargam Koushal scripted history as she won the Mrs World 2022 title after 21 years while representing India in the beauty pageant. Besting contestants from 63 countries, the 32-year-old secured the crown at the event that took place in Las Vegas. The official Mrs. India’s Instagram page shared the news with a video of her … Read more
New Delhi: Union minister V K Singh on Saturday pointed out the dearth of trained security professionals in the country and urged the private security sector to fill the gap. Addressing the annual conference of the Central Association of Private Security Industry (CAPSI), the Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways and Civil Aviation … Read more
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea challenging the election of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in 2019 from Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala. A bench of justices AS Bopanna and Dipankar Datta rejected the petition filed by Saritha S Nair, who had moved the court against an October 31, 2019 decision of … Read more
New Delhi: Aaftab Amin Poonawala, accused of strangling his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar and chopping her body into pieces, on Saturday rescinded the permission to his counsel to move his bail plea in a court here. Additional Sessions Judge Vrinda Kumari said the court received an intimation from Poonawala through email that the bail application … Read more
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit poll-bound Tripura and Meghalaya on Sunday and inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of projects worth more than ₹ 6,800 crore there. The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said in a statement that the projects encompass a wide array of sectors, including housing, road, agriculture, telecom, IT, tourism, … Read more
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has rejected a plea filed by Bilkis Bano, seeking a review of its earlier order by which it had asked the Gujarat government to consider the petitions for remission of sentences of 11 convicts in the gang-rape case. Bilkis Bano was gang-raped and seven members of her family were killed … Read more
An Indian Ph.D. student at the University of Cambridge has finally solved a Sanskrit grammatical problem that has baffled scholars since the 5th century BC. 27-year-old Rishi Atul Rajpopat, reportedly decoded a text written by the Sanskrit language master Panini, a master of the ancient Sanskrit language who lived around two-and-a-half-thousand years ago, according to … Read more
After disrupting the telecom services space, multi-billionaire Mukesh Ambani has launched his next offensive. This time, he is eyeing the country’s vast fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) market, which is already the fourth-largest in the world. Armed with a host of fast-moving packaged food and beverages (F&B), Ambani’s Reliance today forayed into the market under … Read more
Reserve Bank of India changed the rules related to bank lockers in 2021 which are effective since January 2022. The primary objective of these bank locker rules was to protect expensive assets from theft and burglaries. With trembling economic inequality, jewelry and cash thefts are still prevalent in many parts of India. After Supreme Court’s … Read more
New Delhi: Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani and Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury indulged in a spat in Lok Sabha on Friday over the use of the word ‘gentleman’. While responding to a supplementary question by Chandra Sekhar Sahu of the BJD on fortified food for children, Ms Irani referred to him as … Read more
Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Thursday verbally moved the chief justice’s bench at the Calcutta High Court, seeking permission to file a petition challenging a single bench order that directed the state police not to register any FIR against BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari without permission of the court. The move came after the Supreme … Read more
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Friday said no Supreme Court bench will be available from December 17 till January 1 during the ensuing winter vacations.The Chief Justice of India’s announcement made in the top court assumes significance in the wake of Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju’s statement in Rajya Sabha on … Read more
New Delhi: Government departments and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are taking coordinated steps to check Chinese mobile apps offering easy loans and cheating people, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in Rajya Sabha today. READ |‘You are asking wrong minister’: Jaishankar’s savage reply to Pak journos question on ‘terror from New Delhi’ Responding to … Read more
Mumbai: Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan’s comments in Kolkata on “questions being raised on freedom of expression” have sparked a Twitter fight between Bengal’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Centre’s ruling BJP, bitter rivals who accuse each other of “tyranny”. The fight comes in the backdrop of BJP leaders’ boycott calls against ‘Pathaan’, the upcoming movie … Read more
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar scorned a journalist from Pakistan on Thursday who asked him how long South Asia will see terrorism from New Delhi, Kabul, Pakistan. The minister gave a witty response to the journalist and said, “You are asking the wrong minister. It is the minister of Pakistan who will tell you how … Read more