UK police on Friday fined Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for not wearing a seatbelt in a moving car while filming a social media video. Without naming Sunak, Lancashire Police said it had issued a 42-year-old man from London with a conditional offer of a fixed penalty. “Following the circulation of a video on social media […]
India’s top wrestlers Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik, Ravi Dahiya and Deepak Punia on Friday wrote to president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) PT Usha on sexual harassment allegations against the Wrestling Federation of India and its chief Brij Bhushan Saran Singh. Meanwhile, top Indian wrestlers’ meeting with Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur […]
Alleged conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar had played with “my emotions and “made my life hell,” Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez has told Delhi’s Patiala House Courts in a statement, media reports claimed. Fernandez, in the statement, said Chandrashekhar had introduced himself as the owner of Sun TV and claimed (late Tamil Nadu chief minister) J Jayalalithaa was […]
The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday opposed in the Supreme Court the bail plea of Union Minister Ajay Kumar Mishra’s son, who is one of the accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case.Additional Advocate General for Uttar Pradesh Garima Prashad told a bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice JK Maheshwari that the crime is […]
The helicopter crash near a kindergarten outside the Ukrainian capital Kyiv killed 16 including Ukraine interior minister, news agency AFP reported. Ukrainian interior minister’s deputy and another official were also killed in the crash, BBC reported. “In total, 16 people are currently known to have died,” the head of national police, Igor Klymenko, said. Among […]
As many as four in five Indian professionals are considering job change this year and are keen on switching to roles that offer the right wage, and allows for appreciable work-life balance and flexibility, says a report.According to LinkedIn’s economic graph data, hiring level in India was 23 per cent slower in December 2022 as […]
Punjab Congress leader and former finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal quit the party on Wednesday and blamed its top brass for factionalism. The development came a day after Rahul Gandhi’s-led Bharat Jodo Yatra crossed Punjab yesterday and entered Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday morning.In a letter addressed to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, Manpreet Badal wrote that […]
The Jammu and Kashmir government has ordered a magisterial probe into the encounter in Sidhra area here in December last year in which four terrorists were killed.Assistant Commissioner, Jammu, Piyush Dhotra, has been appointed the inquiry officer to conduct the probe into the encounter which took place near police check-point at Sidhra on December 28, […]
The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its verdict on the vexatious Centre-Delhi government row over control of services in the national capital. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud heard Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and senior advocate AM Singhvi for the central and the Delhi government respectively for almost four-and-a-half days before […]
The Election Commission will announce the schedule of assembly polls in Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland on Wednesday afternoon.The poll panel has convened a press conference at 2.30pm here for the purpose. The term of the three assemblies is ending on different dates in March.While the term of the Nagaland assembly ends on March 12, the […]