Former US President Donald Trump on Tuesday sued E Jean Carroll for defamation, alleging she falsely accused him of rape after a jury in a civil trial found that he sexually abused her.Trump’s counterclaim against Carroll in Manhattan federal court comes after a jury’s unusual finding in May that he sexually abused and defamed but […]
The Punjab Vigilance Bureau has arrested a revenue official and his private assistant for allegedly accepting bribe.Gurpreet Singh, posted as ‘patwari’ in Muktsar district, was arrested on the complaint of a resident of Bhullar village, the Bureau said in a statement on Wednesday. The complainant, Gurpal Singh, had alleged that the revenue official had demanded […]
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, for the first time, has breached into the top 150 rankings of Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings 2023, released on Tuesday.IIT Bombay was ranked 149 among top universities of the world. This is the highest ranking attained by IIT Bombay in the global rankings of universities. Last […]
Housing sales rose 8 per cent annually during the April-June period to 80,250 units across eight major cities, mainly on increased demand in Mumbai and Pune, according to PropTiger.Sales stood at 74,320 units in the year-ago period across primary (fresh sales) residential markets of the top eight cities. The housing brokerage firm on Wednesday released […]
Senior IPS officer Ajay Bhatnagar has been appointed Special Director in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), according to a Personnel Ministry order.Bhatnagar, a 1989 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of Jharkhand cadre, is currently Additional Director in the federal probe agency. He has been appointed to the post till the date of his […]
Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty hit their record high levels in early trade on Wednesday amid a rally in the US markets and fresh foreign fund inflows.Buying in market heavyweight stocks like Reliance Industries and HDFC Bank also added to the positive momentum. Tech Mahindra, Axis Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, HCL Technologies, Power Grid […]
Toyota’s Hilux Shinkula Drive campaign was flagged off by Vivek Dutta, Managing Director, Globe Toyota, today. The drive, which was flagged off from Panchkula, will end at the Shinkula Top– situated at an altitude of 16580 feet. As many as 13 Hilux vehicles are participating in the campaign and the main objective is to make […]
Five people have been arrested in connection with the gunpoint robbery of a delivery agent and his associates inside the Pragati Maidan tunnel, police said on Tuesday.CCTV footage received by Delhi Police showed four motorcycle-borne men intercepted a car and looted about Rs 2 lakh from the delivery agent of Omiya Enterprises, Chandni Chowk, and […]
Air India on Tuesday said it was extending all cooperation to the ongoing investigations with regard to the incident of a passenger behaving in a ‘repulsive manner’ aboard its Mumbai-Delhi flight on June 24.“A passenger on our flight AI866 operating Mumbai-Delhi on June 24 behaved in a repulsive manner, causing discomfort to the co-passengers. In […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday visited Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal and flagged off five Vande Bharat trains connecting important cities in different parts of the country.Modi reached Rani Kamalapati railway station in Bhopal from where he flagged off the five trains – two physically and three in virtual mode. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Madhya […]