New Delhi The CBI today said it had registered a criminal case against a Vadodara-based company dealing in electric cable and equipment, and its directors for allegedly cheating various banks to the tune of Rs. 2,654 crore. The central probe agency also launched searches at the official and residential premises of the company — Diamond Power Infrastructure […]
Gold Coast The Manipuri powerhouse left the competition far behind by setting Games and Commonwealth records in the snatch, clean and jerk as well as the total. Mirabai Chanu won the first gold for India at the 21st edition of the Commonwealth Games with a power-packed performance in the women’s 48 kilogram category in Gold […]
New Delhi Bollywood actor Salman Khan was on Thursday sentenced to five years imprisonment by a Jodhpur court for killing two blackbucks during a film shoot in Rajasthan in 1998. The court also slapped him with a fine of Rs 10,000. The actor was found guilty under Section 9/51 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 for killing […]
Beijing In a retaliatory measure, China on Wednesday decided to impose new tariffs of 25 per cent worth USD 50 billion on 106 American products, including aircraft and cars, as the world’s two largest economies edged closer towards an all-out trade war. The move comes after the Trump administration Tuesday published a list of about […]
Gold Coast World champion weightlifter Mirabai Chanu will be in focus for her high medal-winning chances at the 21st Commonwealth Games. Inida’s high-profile shuttlers and boxers will also be watched keenly when they open their campaigns at the Games here tomorrow. Competing in the 48kg category, Chanu, who claimed a silver at the 2014 CWG, […]
San Bruno A woman who believed she was being suppressed by YouTube and told her family members she “hated” the company opened fire at YouTube’s headquarters in California, wounding three people before taking her own life, police said. Investigators do not believe Nasim Aghdam specifically targeted the three victims when she pulled out a handgun […]
New Delhi Supreme Court today dismissed five petitions challenging the CBSE’s decision to conduct a re-examination of the Class 12 economics paper after an alleged leak. The top court said it is the discretion of the Central Board of Secondary Education to conduct the re-examination and can’t be challenged in the court. A bench of […]
Google on Tuesday teased on social media that the company’s Assistant-powered Google Home and Google Home Mini smart speakers would be sold on Flipkart once they get launched in India next week, on April 10. For now, it’s not known if the online retail partnership is exclusive. The smart speakers are set to be sold offline as well, with at least one distribution partner known. In […]
New Delhi Even as parts of India are on the boil due to Dalit anger over a Supreme Court ruling diluting the SC/ST Act, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today made came out and said his government is “walking on the path shown by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar”, a Dalit icon. He also took a dig at the Congress, by saying “no other […]
Soweto Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who emerged as a combative anti-apartheid campaigner during her husband Nelson Mandela’s decades in jail but whose reputation was later tarnished by allegations of violence, died on Monday at the age of 81. Madikizela-Mandela died peacefully surrounded by her family following a long illness that kept her in and out of hospital […]