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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday conducted extensive searches on the premises of those suspected to have received money from Pakistan to spy on Indian defence establishments. The searches were conducted in a case registered by the NIA in June last year. The agency filed a charge sheet in July 2023 against two accused […]
After 10 years, there is finally a Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha in the form of Rae Bareli MP Rahul Gandhi. For the last 10 years, no party had numbers equalling a tenth of the strength of the House, which has been by practice a requirement to lay claim to the post. […]
Just ahead of the Supreme Court hearing on the bail plea of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam, a Delhi court on June 25 granted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) a 3-day custody of Kejriwal. The CBI, earlier in the day, formally arrested Kejriwal […]
“Had the police acted on our complaints, my daughter would not have taken her own life,” said a distraught Urmila Kumari (name changed). On June 23, at around 6 pm, her 16-year-old daughter, a class 10 student, took her own life by hanging, allegedly because she was troubled by the police inaction against two men […]
A role of a Surat-based networking company, with branches in Bihar, has come under the scanner after the arrest of two persons in Muzaffarpur on a sexual assault complaint. The initial police probe into the incident now hints at a larger job racket involving the Gujrat firm. On June 2, the Muzaffarpur Police lodged an […]
The unusually high demand of electricity led to frequent power cuts in Delhi and neighbouring areas. Several places in central and eastern India faced similar or worse situations. The lack of electricity, combined with abnormally high night temperatures, made lives miserable, and could have even contributed to several heat-related deaths. The unprecedented surge in electricity […]
From doctors and professors to actors and cricketers, the 18th Lok Sabha which convenes for the first time on Monday accounts for a wide range of professions among the newly-elected MPs. The number of MPs who have declared their professions as social workers, farmers and business people, however, has declined in comparison to the 17th […]
The number of online fraud cases has increased significantly in last two financial year. Nearly 800 digital payment fraud cases are reported every day in India, nearly 10 times more than what RBI’s annual report showed. This is because the central bank’s took into account cases above Rs 1 lakh only. According to the report, 29,082 card & digital […]
With temperatures in Mecca reaching above 51 degree Celsius last week, hundreds of pilgrims died in its wake, many of them from India. Hajj (literally “to set out for a place”) is one of the five pillars of Islam — every Muslim is supposed to undertake the pilgrimage at least once in their lifetime. The […]
The finance ministry is planning to raise the standard deduction limit for income taxpayers under the new tax regime, without tinkering with the exemption-laced older regime. In the 2023 Budget, FM had introduced a standard deduction of Rs 50,000 for salaried taxpayers and those who earn pension under the new tax regime, which became the […]
With an eye on China, India is warming up to Bangladesh in a diplomatic one-upmanship aimed at steering the competitive hegemony over the South Asian geo-political space to its favour. The two countries signed 10 agreements/ MoUs and announced over a dozen other initiatives – spanning across areas like connectivity, health, trade, energy, defence and […]
A new haze of normalcy has settled down on the national capital. At least, for now. There are no Narendra Modi visage staring down at you from every petrol pump station. The ubiquitous reminders of a cult leader are gone; though the bookshop at Terminal 3 still displays in its “new arrival” shelf at least […]
Sikander P Yadavendu (56), the alleged mastermind of the NEET-UG paper leak in Bihar, comes from a farmer’s family and was working as a small-time contractor until 2012, until his name emerged in the scam. Today, Yadavendu is, according to state police officers, a key accused in the case. He was arrested on May 5, […]
With temperature consistently hovering around 45 degrees in Delhi-NCR region, the life of platform-based gig workers is a living example of how the climate crisis has a disproportionate impact on those from lower income groups and how the country’s poorest are the worst hit as temperatures rise, with their jobs, wages and health harmed. While […]
Slow pace of disinflation is mainly due to the elevated food inflation which has been impacted by recurring supply-side shocks, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said in the minutes of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting held from June 5 to 7. Of the six-member rate setting panel, four voted to keep the policy repo rate […]
The police have arrested a woman who allegedly posed as a “national advisor at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO)” and duped a Pune-based businessman of Rs 50 lakh. Gorakh Maral, 49, who is into the business of supplying building materials, lodged a complaint against the woman identified as Kashmira Sandip Pawar, 29, whom he acquainted […]
On Tuesday, Delhi recorded its highest minimum temperature since 1969 — a burning 35.2 degree Celsius at night. In the grip of high temperatures during the day, where seven heatwave days have been recorded in June alone (so far), a rise in night temperatures is a new worry. This month, so far, the city has […]
Retail inflation is gradually easing, but volatile and elevated food prices are interrupting the path of disinflation, the RBI Bulletin said on Wednesday. Inflation, as measured by year-on-year changes in the all-India Consumer Price-based Inflation (CPI), softened to 4.7 per cent in May 2024 – the lowest in the last 12 months – from 4.8 […]
There has never been a better time to be an Indian, and within the next decade, India will start adding a trillion dollars to its GDP every 12 to 18 months, putting us on track to be a $30 trillion economy by 2050, Gautam Adani, the Chairman of the Adani Group, said on Wednesday. Delivering […]
The prolonged spell of heat, especially in north India, has fired up AC sales. The unprecedented demand this summer season – following record high temperatures across many parts of the country – has also meant supply shortage and scarcity of critical on-ground manpower, all of which have seen prices shooting up 6-8% in June due […]
