The 2018 public high drama at Haridwar of a district judge accompanied by police and child welfare committee members rescuing a minor girl employed and allegedly tortured by a judicial officer, which resulted in the latter’s dismissal after an inquiry by Uttarakhand HC, went up in smoke in SC on Monday.A bench of CJI Surya…
NEW DELHI: Accused of involvement in multiple scams, former Chhattisgarh bureaucrat Anil Tuteja will come out of jail more than two years after his arrest in April 2024 as Supreme Court granted him bail in the Rs 600 crore DMF scam case on Monday. However, SC banished him from the state.Appearing for Tuteja, advocate Shoeb…
At a time of growing geopolitical uncertainty, energy insecurity and economic fragmentation, the world faces a defining choice: retreat into narrow national approaches or strengthen partnerships that deliver growth, resilience and sustainability together. As the United Nations marks its 80th anniversary, the value of international cooperation and multilateralism has become even more evident. At the…
CHENNAI: Signs of unrest within Dravidian majors after the recent Tamil Nadu assembly poll debacle intensified Monday, even as DMK president MK Stalin and AIADMK chief Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) assured cadres the two parties would bounce back. While AIADMK veteran S Semmalai quit after 45 years, former DMK minister PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan announced he…
Based on a complaint by Lionel Messi’s India tour organiser, Satadru Dutta, an FIR was filed on Monday against Bengal’s former sports minister Aroop Biswas, ex-DGP Rajeev Kumar, New Alipore councillor Juin Biswas, and IAS officer Santanu Basu, accusing them of sabotaging the event at Salt Lake Stadium in Dec 2025. Dutta alleged Biswas misused…
JAGDALPUR: With Left-wing extremism (LWE) crushed, the camps set up by the security forces in the remote Bastar region to run anti-Naxal operations are being repurposed to serve the local population with doorstep delivery of a range of govt benefits, right from Aadhaar and ration card generation to banking and healthcare services.Union home minister Amit…
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Monday expressed solidarity with the global Tamil diaspora on the occasion of Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day.On May 18, 2009, the Sri Lankan civil war had come to an end in Mullivaikkal, a small coastal village in Mullaitivu district, following the death of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran.Vijay pledged…
Was Aaron Rodgers spotted posing with his wife after months of keeping her identity private amid his new contract with the Steelers?(Image via Getty Images) Aaron Rodgers, the NFL veteran, recently signed a one year deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers, as retirement rumors dominated the headlines.Amid all the speculations, the spotlight remains on Aaron Rodgers’…
NEW DELHI: Despite employing one in every four workers in manufacturing, the handicrafts and handloom (HH) sector is marred by low productivity, occupational hazards, lack of formalisation, market access including e-commerce and exports, the latest study by the Institute for Human Development (IHD) in collaboration with Crafts Council of India released on Monday showed.The gross…
KOLKATA: The civic authorities on Monday initiated a probe into the properties owned by Abhishek Banerjee and some of his associates, with officials going to several of the TMC national general secretary’s properties, including ‘Shantiniketan’ in the city, and pasting notices under Section 401 of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation Act, 1980.The notice is KMC’s first…