The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the Centre’s 2010 curative petition seeking an additional Rs 7,844 crore from the successor firms of Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) for enhanced compensation to the victims of the 1984 tragedy which claimed more than 3,000 lives and damaged the environment.“Reopening the issue will only open a Pandora’s box and […]
After ‘Naatu-Naatu’ – the popular hit song’ from the 2022 Telugu film ‘RRR’ made history by becoming the first-ever song from an Indian production to win at the 95th Academy Awards on Monday – politicians, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, defence minister Rajnath Singh, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, congratulated the […]
After being questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) over the Delhi liquor policy scam, Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) leader and Telangana MLC, K. Kavitha, returned from Delhi and called on her father and Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR).Arriving in Hyderabad by a special flight at 12.10 a.m. on Saturday midnight, Kavitha along with […]
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in the US has left several Indian startups worried who have exposure to its investments and their raised funds may now be stuck.According to recent data by global software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based market intelligence platform Tracxn, SVB had exposure in at least 21 startups in India although it did not […]
China’s Parliament on Friday unanimously endorsed an unprecedented third five-year term for President Xi Jinping.Xi, 69, was re-elected by the once-in-a-five-year Congress of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) as its leader in October last year, becoming the first Chinese leader after the party founder Mao Zedong to continue in power beyond the two […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese were greeted with loud cheers at the cricket stadium in Ahmedabad as they did a lap of honour prior to the fourth test match of the Border-Gavaskar trophy between India and Australia. While Congress criticised the lap of honour by the prime minister at the […]
Seventy-year-old BJP leader Manik Saha on Wednesday took oath as chief minister of the sensitive border state of Tripura.Eight more ministers, including Ratan Lal Nath, Pranajit Singha Roy, Santana Chakma, Tinku Roy and Bikash Debbarma, were also sworn in by Governor Satyadeo Narain Arya. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP […]
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday questioned and recorded the statement of former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia as part of its money-laundering probe into the alleged irregularities in the excise policy matter, official sources said. The federal probe agency also made a fresh arrest in the case as it took into custody Hyderabad-based […]
The man who fired the first shot at Umesh Pal was gunned down by a Prayagraj police team in an encounter here in the early hours of Monday, officials said.Umesh Pal, the key witness in the 2005 former BSP MLA Raju Pal murder case, and his police security guards Sandeep Nishad and Raghvendra Singh were […]