Giving a sensational twist to the ongoing re-trial of Bollywood actor Salman Khan in the accident case, his lawyer Shrikant Shivade on Friday argued that one of the victims could have died because of the impact of the car falling off while being lifted by a crane. Salman’s vehicle had rammed into the American Express […]
The Supreme Court on Friday appointed CBI officer Vivek Priyadarshi to head the investigating team that is assisting former chief justice R.M. Lodha in determining the role of BCCI official Sunder Raman in the 2013 Indian Premier League (IPL) betting and spot fixing scam. The apex court bench of Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice Fakkir […]
A total of 475 people, including 73 Indians and 337 Bangladeshis, evacuated from strife-torn Yemen will arrive here on Saturday aboard two Indian ships, an official said on Friday. Besides, 65 Yemenis are aboard MV Coral and MV Kavaratti. “A team of Bangladesh officials has already arrived to take care of their nationals. We do […]
A week after it revised its outlook on India to positive from stable, international credit rating major Moody’s pegged India’s growth at 7.5 percent for 2015. “India’s economy is on a cyclical upswing. Forward looking indicators suggest domestic demand is gathering momentum,” said Faraz Syed, associate economist, Moody’s Analytics. According to the ratings agency, low […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s three-nation tour was marked by several high points – the surprise announcement on purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets in France, clinching a five-year uranium supply deal with Canada, pushing the Make in India initiative in Germany, assuring all of the ease of doing business in India, not forgetting the rockstar […]
Construction giant Shapoorji Pallonji plans to invest Rs.20,000 crore in building infrastructure, including roads, flyovers and separators at road junctions here. This was stated by Telangana government on Thursday after Shapoorji Pallonji chairman Shapoor P. Mistry and other officials met with Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao here. Mistry evinced interest to be a partner in […]
The two-day Business & Climate Summit to be held in Paris next month is about collaboration between business and the governments in the area of decarbonisation of the economy, an official of the United Nations said on Thursday. The international business community would converge on Paris next month at the Business & Climate Summit to […]
In what could be considered the resurrection of an erstwhile ‘Janata Parivar’ icon, schools in Uttar Pradesh have been directed to declare Friday a holiday on account of the birth anniversary of late prime minister Chandra Shekhar. A note from a principal of a school in Noida to parents on Thursday evening said that the […]
Angry and shocked over the alleged snooping on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’ family by successive Congress governments, concerned citizens here termed it a “national shame” and demanded to know the truth that is purportedly buried in secret government files. United in rage, a large section of eminent personalities and commoners alike have called for the […]
Having basked in envious glory for the past few decades, the Gandhi bastions of Rae Bareli and Amethi in Uttar Pradesh seem to have fallen on bad times after the ascendancy of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government at the centre. With the union government red-flagging an ambitious mega food park project of Congress vice […]