LONDON: There were no takers for Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan in the The Hundred Draft for the tournament’s 2024 edition on Thursday. Former Pakistan skipper Babar and Rizwan, who have piled records as a T20 international opening pair for the national side, couldn’t find a place among the 32 players — both international and […]
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday night in an excise policy-linked money laundering case, officials said. The arrest, the first of a sitting chief minister, came hours after the Delhi High Court refused to grant protection to the AAP national convenor from any coercive action […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has opted not to stay the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Act, 2023 (CEC Act), which outlines the procedure for appointing Chief Election Commissioners (CEC) and Election Commissioners (EC). A bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta also refused […]
Jammu: The annual Shri Amarnath yatra this year is likely to begin from June 29. Official sources said that Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, who is also Chairman of Shri Amarnath Shrine Board, chaired a meeting here at Raj Bhawan to discuss arrangements and preparations for the yatra. The 52-day long pilgrimage to conclude on August […]
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Thursday made public a fresh data set of electoral bonds, including their alpha-numeric numbers that can help match their purchasers with the political parties that received the funds. Two separate lists of the donors and the recipients were published by the poll panel on its website after the details […]
New Delhi: The Congress’ Central Election Committee met here on Thursday to finalise Lok Sabha poll candidates for Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. This is the first time that the panel, chaired by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, took up discussions on the candidates for the politically crucial Uttar […]
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the notification issued by the central government for setting up fact check units to verify the authenticity of the news items appearing on social media. Staying the notification issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics […]
New Delhi: The Election Commission Thursday directed the Centre to “immediately halt” sending bulk WhatsApp messages under the “Viksit Bharat Sampark” to highlight the government’s initiatives. The Commission issued the direction to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology after it received complaints about the matter. “The move is a part of a series of […]
New Delhi: Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of crippling the Congress financially, former party president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday demanded that the party be given access to its bank accounts to ensure a level playing field in the run up to the Lok Sabha polls. In a press conference also addressed by Congress president Mallikarjun […]
New Delhi: Ransomware and malware have emerged as the topmost cyber threat of 2024 in India, with 42 per cent IT and security professionals identifying them as the fastest-growing type of threat, a new report said on Thursday. According to the IT company Thales, cloud assets, including SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) applications, cloud-based storage, and cloud infrastructure […]