A joint team of the CBI and the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation vigilance cell conducted searches at two EPFO offices in Maharashtra’s Nagpur city following some complaints of irregularities against EPFO employees, officials said on Wednesday.The Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) anti-corruption branch in Nagpur and the EPFO’s vigilance team from Mumbai started the searches […]
Five people were shot on Tuesday morning at a subway station in Brooklyn, New York, law enforcement sources said. Fire personnel responding to reports of smoke at the 36th Street station in the Sunset Park neighbourhood found multiple people shot and undetonated devices, a New York City Fire Department spokesperson said.According to multiple law enforcement […]
Students will now be able to pursue two full-time degree programmes in physical mode simultaneously either at the same university or from different universities, UGC Chairman Jagadesh Kumar announced on Tuesday. “As announced in the new National Education Policy (NEP) and in order to allow students to acquire multiple skills, UGC is coming up with […]
Crisis-ridden Sri Lanka on Tuesday said it was defaulting on its external debt of around $51 billion pending a bailout from the International Monetary Fund, with whom talks are scheduled for later this month. Sri Lanka’s finance ministry said creditors, including foreign governments, were free to capitalise interest payments due from Tuesday afternoon or opt […]
Subhash Shankar Parab, a close aide of fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi, was brought to India from Cairo on Tuesday morning and arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), people familiar with the development informed to Hindustan Times. The 49-year-old, believed to be the right hand man of Nirav Modi and a senior director in […]
PM Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden hold virtual meeting ahead of ‘2+2’ ministerial dialogue. We share strong and growing major defence partnership: President Joe Biden in virtual meeting with PM Modi.“As world’s two largest and oldest democracies, we are natural partners,” said PM Modi.Our talks today are taking place at a time when […]
Shehbaz Sharif — the 70-year-old brother of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the leader of opposition PML-N — has been elected unopposed as the next Prime Minister of Pakistan, succeeding Imran Khan, who was removed by a no-trust vote on Saturday. Ahead of the election of the new Prime Minister, Imran Khan resigned as […]
The Centre on Monday said the Supreme Court, in an order dated March 24, had fixed timelines to file the claims for the compensation of Covid-19 deaths. For deaths that occurred prior to March 20, the claims have to be filed within 60 days, while for any future deaths, 90 days’ time has been given […]
The Delhi Police on Monday said they have registered a first information report (FIR) against unknown Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) members in connection with Sunday’s clash at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). The clash between two student groups over a hostel mess serving chicken for dinner on the occasion of Ram Navmi left at least […]
Some students were injured in a scuffle that broke out on Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus on Sunday evening.According to a student union, tension was brewing on the campus since late afternoon after some Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) members allegedly tried to stop non-vegetarian food from being cooked in the Kaveri hostel mess. On […]