The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday carried out searches at the three premises of Byju Raveendran, the founder and chief executive officer of ‘Think and Learn Private Ltd’ that runs edtech platform under the name of Byju’s. The probe agency carried out searches under the provisions of Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), having seized various incriminating […]
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra expressed solidarity with protesting wrestlers after meeting them at Jantar Mantar here on Saturday and called for the removal of WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who is facing allegations of sexual harassment levelled by women grapplers. The Congress general secretary accused the government of “protecting” Bhushan. Priyanka, who is […]
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor is the latest politician to express his disappointment a day after Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president PT Usha claimed that the wrestlers lacked discipline as they hit the streets to resume their protest against Wrestling Federation of Indian (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh instead of approaching them. “Our feeling is […]
Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Friday once again called upon Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member states to unitedly fight terrorism and eliminate the menace in all its forms. Pakistani defence minister Khawaja Asif was scheduled to participate in the meeting through virtual mode. “We should unitedly fight terrorism. If the SCO has to emerge stronger, […]
Iran’s navy seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker with 24 Indian crew members in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday heading to the US amid wider tensions over Tehran’s nuclear programme, the latest-such capture in a waterway crucial for global energy supplies. The US Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet identified the vessel as the Advantage Sweet. […]
Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra on Friday extended his support to the protesting wrestlers and called for “quick action” from the authorities in order to ensure that justice is served.Chopra expressed his disappointment a day after Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president PT Usha came down heavily on the wrestlers for hitting the streets to resume […]
The situation remained tense in southern Manipur’s Churachandpur as “miscreants” set ablaze the venue where Chief Minister N. Biren Singh is scheduled to address a meeting on Friday.A police official said late on Thursday night that the Chief Minister is scheduled to visit the hill district on Friday and arson took place in the venue […]
A major crackdown was on Thursday conducted on Punjabi singers, gangsters and travel agents nexus in Punjab.A police office has confirmed that singer Karan Aujla’s associate Sharpy Ghuman has been arrested by AGTF. AGTF sources said that an FIR has been lodged with state crime branch and eight people have been apprehended, majority of them […]
Objecting to the release of Anand Mohan Singh from Bihar’s Saharsa jail, the widow of slain District Magistrate G Krishnaiah who was murdered by the gangster-turned-politician, on Thursday appealed to President Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene and ask Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to send him to jail. This comes after Gangster-turned-politician Anand […]
“It was like we were on a deathbed,” recalled a relieved Sukhvinder Singh from Haryana as he arrived at the Delhi airport from Saudi Arabia after being evacuated from strife-torn Sudan.In his mid-40s, the engineer was among the first batch of 360 Indian nationals who returned home on Wednesday night under India’s ‘Operation Kaveri’ evacuation […]