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India’s apex market regulator SEBI has said that foreign funds set up at GIFT City in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar can take full investment from non-resident Indians (NRIs) and other Indian-origin citizens (IOCs). However, they will need to make granular disclosures about their investors if the fund holds more than 33% of its equity assets under management […]
Adani Energy Solutions Limited (“AESL”), part of the globally diversified Adani portfolio and the largest private transmission and distribution company in India with a growing smart metering portfolio, announced its financial and operational performance for the quarter and year ended March 31, 2024. “AESL’s consistent progress in commissioning of new lines, along with robust energy […]
On April 24, a pen drive containing 2,976 obscene videos showing Prajwal involved in purported sexual acts surfaced in Hassan, two days before the Lok Sabha constituency went to polls. The controversy split open the simmering rift between the two sons of Deve Gowda — former Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy and his elder brother, […]
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the sex video case allegedly involving Prajwal Revanna has summoned the grandson of JD (S) patriarch and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda to appear before it for investigation within 24 hours. H D Revanna, Prajwal’s father, has also been summoned by SIT. Prajwal, 33, is the incumbent […]
A case was lodged against Samajwadi Party leader Maria Alam after she appealed to the people to practise ‘vote jihad’ in the Lok Sabha elections. She was addressing an election rally in Farrukhabad in Uttar Pradesh. Alam, veteran Congress leader Salman Khurshid’s niece said, “Together do ‘vote jihad’ – with intelligence, without being sentimental and […]
Yoga guru Ramdev and his company Patanjali may be a Rs 55,490 crore compnay today, but 17 years back, Baba’s humble beginnings got a significant fillip from a Scotland-based Poddar couple which eventually helped the homegrown brand establish itself as a market leader in Ayurveda products in India and abroad. In 2006, when Ramdev and […]
After the Supreme Court rap, the Uttarakhand government finally suspended the licences of 14 products of Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali. A criminal complaint has also been filed against Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna and Patanjali for violating the Drugs and Magic Remedies Act. The products whose licences have been suspended are Swasari Gold, Swasari Vati, Bronchom, Swasari […]
Days after the Karnataka government formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the alleged role of JD(S) MP and its Hassan candidate Prajwal Revanna in a sex abuse case, the party suspended him. His father HD Revanna, Holenarasipura MLA, and son of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda has also been named an accused […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over the latter’s remarks that he said, insulted raja-maharajas. In his speech at a public rally in Gandhinagar, PM Modi said, “You may have heard Congres Shehzada’s fresh remark. He says that Bharat’s Raja and Maharajas were atyachari. They would grab the land of poor people. […]
In the latest development in Karnataka MP Prajwal Revanna’s sex scandal case, one of the victims has shared her ordeals about the incident. The victim used to work as a cook in Revanna’s residence. She has lodged a complaint against Prajwal Revanna and his father HD Revanna. The woman complainant told police in an FIR, […]
As the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) grapples with political crisis, especially following the arrest of party chief and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, one of its popular leaders and Rajya Sabha member, Raghav Chadha is conspicuous by his absence. Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the liquor policy case on March 21. The […]
A Russian content creator, with over 80,000 followers on Instagram, has claimed that a passport officer at Delhi airport asked her to call him. An avid traveller and a lover of India, Dinara, the vlogger, claimed in a video that a passport control officer at Delhi airport asked her to call him after writing down […]
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday accused the Central government of planning to change the Constitution to weaken the people and deprive them of their rights. Speaking at a public rally in support of Congress candidate Anant Patel at Dharampur in Valsad, Priyanka alleged,”In 10 years the government has not done anything to strengthen […]
Rejecting the petitions seeking 100% cross-verification of votes cast on EVMs using the VVPAT, the Supreme Court has observed that the suspicions regarding EVM tampering are unfounded and reverting back to the ballot paper system, as prayed, would undo the reforms that have taken place over the years. “We have discussed, elaborately, all protocols […]
As Rajasthan goes to the polls for 13 seats on Friday, wrapping up the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress seems confident and optimistic. In 2014 and 2019, the BJP and the NDA led by it, won all 25 seats in Rajasthan. In the two phases of voting in the state, the BJP seems to […]
The Election Commission on Thursday issued notices to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress, after complaints by both the parties against each other for violating the model code of conduct in vogue for the Lok Sabha elections. The poll panel – whose response had been awaited as a litmus test on the conduct […]
On the issue of redistribution of wealth triggered by the Modi-Congress slugfest, the Supreme Court said it won’t adhere to Justice VR Krishna Iyer’s 1977 Marxian interpretation of Article 39(b) of the Constitution that a community’s “material resources” would include private properties for reallocation to subserve the common good. Engaged in interpreting the ambit of […]
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has for the first time introduced tailored heatwave forecasts for the 18th Lok Sabha elections that got underway on April 9. And, extending its specialised transport sector forecasts beyond airports, sea ports and highways, the IMD also recently introduced forecasts for rail travellers. Railway demand is set to increase this […]
The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce its verdict on a batch of petitions seeking directions to tally Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips with votes cast through Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) during the elections. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta asked a senior official of the Election Commission of India (ECI) […]
Strand Life Sciences, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd., and a leading global provider of genomic and bioinformatic solutions, has made two breakthrough technologies in its prenatal screening and diagnostics portfolio: CNSeq (for identification of aneuploidies and copy number variations) and MaatriSeq (Non-Invasive Prenatal Screening). These innovations are tailored to the specific needs of the […]
