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Yes Bank founder’s wife, daughters get Supreme Court relief
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today granted interim bail to YES Bank founder Rana Kapoor’s wife and their two daughters in connection with the Rs 4,000 crore money laundering case. A Bench of Justices SK Kaul and MM Sundresh granted bail to Bindu Kapoor and her two daughters Radha...
US judge recommends dismissing rape case against Ronaldo
Los Angeles: A US judge has recommended dismissing the civil rape case against Cristiano Ronaldo over an incident in Las Vegas more than a decade ago. Kathryn Mayorga, a former model, alleges Ronaldo attacked her in a hotel room in 2009. The Portuguese international has always denied allegations of...
No quarantine for fully-vaccinated Indians in UK from Monday
New Delhi: Indians who are fully vaccinated with Covishield or any other UK-approved vaccine will not be quarantined when they arrive in Britain from October 11, the High Commissioner to India said today, ending a row over what was perceived as unfair imposition of COVId-19 quarantine rules. “No...
Supreme Court queries UP Govt on the number of arrests
New Delhi: Four days after a group of farmers were run over by a Union Minister’s car in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri, the Supreme Court demanded to know today “how many have been arrested” and asked for a status report tomorrow from the state government. The court asked...
Advani in 80-member BJP National Executive
New Delhi: BJP president J P Nadda on Thursday announced the 80-member National Executive of the party, with the names of its top brass, ranging from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to many Union ministers, several state leaders and veterans like L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi figuring on...
Akhilesh’s SP may have missed the bus to Lakhimpur
With Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi and others from TMC, RLD and AAP taking a trip to Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh after the violence killed eight, including farmers and a journalist, on October 3, main opposition Samajwadi Party seems nowhere to be seen when it comes to meeting the...
Modi completes 20 years in public office
Union Ministers and Bharatiya Janata Party leaders congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he completed 20 years in heading a government – his journey from being the Chief Minister of Gujarat to the PM – on Thursday. His “dedication towards the public” was celebrated by stalwarts of the BJP...
Priyanka demands minister’s resignation for unbiased probe
Lakhimpur Kheri: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra stuck to her demand for the resignation of Union Minister Ajay Mishra whose son allegedly ran over an SUV on protesting farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri on Sunday. Ms Gandhi Vadra, who along with her brother Rahul Gandhi, met two families whose...
Rahul Gandhi leaves Lucknow airport after row with security
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi today argued with security staff at the Lucknow airport, where he was surrounded when he refused to be driven to Lakhimpur Kheri in an official car. “Who are you to arrange my transport? I want to leave in my car,” the Congress leader, accompanied by...
UP Govt allows parties to visit Lakhimpur Kheri
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has now granted permission to all political parties to visit Lakhimpur Kheri, where eight people died as violence erupted during a farmers’ protest three days back. However, only five people will be allowed at a time, a top official said here. Earlier in the...
Big push to make India global export hub
Union Cabinet on Wednesday has approved the much-awaited scheme to set up mega investment textile parks (MITRA) in India, sources said. The textile ministry will build seven on over acres in the next three years. This move will help to attract foreign direct investments (FDI) into the textile sector...
Union minister Ajay Mishra meets Amit Shah
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah met with his Minister of State Ajay Mishra today amid opposition calls for his sacking over allegations that his son ran over farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri. Eight persons, including four farmers were killed in Lakhimpur Kheri during a protest against...
Posters against Rahul, Priyanka Lakhimpur Kheri visit
Posters and hoardings against Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s visit to Uttar Pradesh following the Lakhimpur Kheri incident have come up in Lucknow. The posters have nee put up by Sikh organisations to register their objection to the Gandhi siblings Lakhimpur Kheri visit. The 1984 riots...
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp partly reconnecting after outage
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp at least partially reconnected to the global internet on Monday afternoon, nearly six hours into an outage that paralyzed the social media platform. Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram apps went dark at around noon Eastern time (1600 GMT), in what website monitoring group Downdetector...
Priyanka alleges detention without order
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday why the person behind the killing of four farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri has not been arrested yet while she has been under “detention for the past 28 hours” without any order or FIR. She was detained...
EC allots party name, symbol to warring LJP factions
The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday passed an order allotting ‘Helicopter’ as election symbol to Chirag Paswan’s faction while allotting ‘sewing machine’ to the faction led by Pashupati Kumar Paras. The move comes after the EC, last week, freeze the the symbol of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) amid...
Viral video appears to show farmers being run over
Lucknow: A video of an SUV ramming the sloganeering farmers marching in a line in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri over the weekend has surfaced on social media. Eight people, including four farmers, were killed in the incident. The video, being shared widely on social media, is yet to...
Report says China amassed test kits months before 1st Covid case
The Chinese province that was the initial epicenter of the Covid-19 outbreak made significant purchases of equipment used to test for infectious diseases months before Beijing notified international authorities of the emergence of a new coronavirus, according to research by a cybersecurity company. The province’s purchase of polymerase chain...
