New Delhi/Washington The Indian mission in the US has established contact with two immigration detention centres where nearly 100 Indians, mostly from Punjab, are detained for illegally entering the country through its southern border. According to officials, around 40-45 Indians are at a federal detention centre in the Southern American State of New Mexico while […]
Chandigarh We are celebrating the International Yoga Day today. The country commemorates this day on 21 June every year to spread awareness about how yoga is an important physical, mental and spiritual practice that each and every one should practice. We talk so much about yoga and its physical and mental health benefits; however, we […]
Mumbai The Economic Offences Wing of the Pune Police on Wednesday arrested Ravindra Marathe, CEO and Managing Director, Bank of Maharashtra, and his predecessor Sushil Muhnot for allegedly colluding with builder D S Kulkarni in fraud case involving more than Rs 2,000 crore. According to police sources, Marathe was arrested from Pune while Muhnot was held […]
New Delhi Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, the state-owned telco, is going to launch ultra-high speed fifth generation, 5G services in accord with other telcos worldwide. BSNL seems to be keen on the task of developing infrastructure for launching the fifth generation networking technology in India. To accomplish this, the state-owned telco is partnering with companies […]
New Delhi The Kerala government has proposed a 14.5 per cent ‘fat tax’ on burgers, pizzas and other junk food served in branded restaurants which officials from the quick service industry termed as ‘detrimental’ to consumption while some indicated the levy may not be passed on to customers. Fat tax on junk food, a reality in […]
Citibank will pay a huge fine for manipulating an important interest rate. The bank settled with attorneys general in 42 states for $100 million. Following an investigation, the states said Citibank manipulated Libor, a benchmark interest rate that helps set lending rates across the world. Citibank made millions of dollars of gains from its “fraudulent […]
New Delhi More parties and leaders have come out in support of the ongoing sit-in protest by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at the Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal’s office. According to reports, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, actors-turned-politicians Kamal Hassan and Shatrughan Sinha, the CPI-M, the CPI and West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool […]
New Delhi India on Thursday rejected the UN report alleging human rights violations in Kashmir. Calling it “ fallacious, tendentious and motivated,” New Delhi questioned the intent behind bringing out a report with “selective compilation of largely unverified information.” Earlier today, the United Nations released the first of its kind report on alleged human rights […]
New Delhi Data security is a modern age myth. In the recent times, tech giants, particularly Facebook, have been accused of aggressively and extensively harnessing user data. And now Facebook has just admitted how efficient it is at the task. The social media giant in a 225-page document responding to a set of 2,000 questions […]
India police said on Monday it will have x-rayed a pigeon it suspects was spying for Pakistan to rule out the possibility of any coded messages. According to Times of India, police in Ajnala town of Amritsar district will have the bird examined to ascertain it does not have a tiny spying object embedded to its body. The pigeon, the report said, […]