Islamabad: A Pakistani court here on Thursday sentenced to death the scion of a prominent industrialist family, after finding him guilty of brutally beheading his childhood friend and daughter of a former diplomat last year after she apparently denied his marriage proposal. Zahir Jaffer, 30, was convicted by the Sessions Court in Islamabad for premediated […]
AMETHI (UP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said voters have blessed the BJP in the first four phases of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections and the opposition math on division of votes has gone wrong. He said February 24 holds special importance for him as the PM Kisan Yojna was launched three years back this […]
NEW DELHI: India logged 14,148 new coronavirus infections, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,28,81,179, while the active cases dipped to 1,48,359, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The death toll climbed to 5,12,924 with 302 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The daily COVID-19 cases […]
UJJAIN: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday assured that roads in Madhya Pradesh would be like those in the United States in the next five years. Airbuses can also be introduced to ferry devotees to the famous Mahakal temple here, he said. “The roads of MP would be like those in the US in the […]
NEW DELHI: The ‘timely attachment’ of proceeds of crime has led to the attachment of assets worth over Rs 19,000 crore out of the “total fraud” of over Rs 22,500 crore by three fugitive offenders Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, and Mehul Choksi, the Centre has told the Supreme Court. These figures were mentioned in the […]
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin met Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in the Kremlin on Thursday in his first face-to-face talks since the start of a special military operation in eastern Ukraine and the two leaders are expected review the entire array of bilateral ties including energy cooperation besides exchanging views on major regional and […]
BENGALURU: An Amritdhari (baptised) Sikh girl was asked by her college here to remove her turban, following the Karnataka High Court’s interim order on the Hijab row. The Karnataka High Court, in its recent interim order pending consideration of all petitions related to the hijab row, restrained all the students in the State from wearing […]
New Delhi: Post Budget Webinar on “Leaving No Citizen Behind” was organised yesterday. Budget announcement related to bringing 100 percent post offices on core banking system and interoperable post office account and its impact on the lives of rural poor especially women was discussed. Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi addressed inaugural session of the webinar. […]
New Delhi: A specific intelligence was developed by the officers of Delhi South CGST Commissionerate concerning certain bogus firms that were created solely for the purpose of generating fake invoices and passing ineligible input tax credit along the chain. Searches and inspections were conducted across locations spread across Delhi, unearthing a cartel running 54 bogus […]
Mumbai: Equity benchmark Sensex crashed over 2,700 points on Thursday following a severe sell-off in global markets after Russia launched a military offensive against Ukraine. The 30-share BSE gauge plunged about 2,850 points during the session before closing at 54,529.91, registering a massive fall of 2,702.15 points or 4.72 per cent. Likewise, the NSE barometer […]