Ahmedabad, Jul 11: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will appear before a metropolitan magistrate’s court here Friday for the hearing of a criminal defamation suit filed against him by Ahmedabad District Cooperative Bank and its chairman Ajay Patel. Gandhi would appear before the court, said Gujarat Congress spokesperson Manish Doshi. […]
MUMBAI – India may receive below-average rainfall in the next two weeks with a large deficit in the soybean and cotton growing central and western regions, a weather department official said on Thursday, raising concerns over the output of summer-sown crops. Monsoon rains are crucial for farm output […]
NEW DELHI – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided the offices and homes of two top human rights lawyers on Thursday in an investigation into foreign funding for their NGO, prompting criticism they were being targeted for political reasons. The CBI conducted searches relating to a case […]
Bengaluru, Jul 11: With his government fighting for survival following the resignation of 16 Congress-JD(S) MLAs, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy sought to know on Thursday why should he step down from the post. “Why should I resign? What is the necessity for me to resign now?,” Kumaraswamy shot […]
New Delhi, Jul 11: A 42-year-old man absconding in a case of murder for the last nine years has been arrested from Bihar, police said Thursday. The accused, Ranjit Singh, carried a reward of Rs 25,000 upon his arrest and was declared Proclaimed Offender by a city court, they […]
Chennai, Jul 11: With the city facing acute water shortage and forecast of more trouble in coming years, the Tamil Nadu government Thursday informed the state assembly that it would take up a project to use treated sewage water for replenishing water bodies. Chief Minister K Palaniswami said a […]
New Delhi, Jul 11: The Jamia Millia Islamia Thursday introduced four new courses under Entrepreneurship Development Programmes (EDP). The courses will be run by the varsity’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and have been introduced in collaboration with the National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC) and the Ministry of Micro, […]
Kannur, Jul 11: CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury Thursday lashed out at the BJP and alleged that the “horse-trading” taking place in Karnataka was part of the saffron party’s agenda to make India “Opposition free”. Yechury, who was in Kerala for unveiling a martyr’s column near here, claimed the […]
New Delhi, Jul 10: A Bill to set up an independent and autonomous regime for institutionalised domestic and international arbitration was passed by the Lok Sabha on Thursday. The New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (NDIAC) Bill, 2019, seeks to replace an ordinance issued in March this year by […]
NEW DELHI – A trainee aircraft technician died after becoming pincered between a plane’s landing doors in Kolkata on Wednesday, the airline said. Rohit Pandey was working on a SpiceJet Bombardier-developed Q400 turboprop plane when the hydraulic landing gear doors closed, the airline said in a statement. “The […]
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