Category: Events

EC barred both factions from using party symbol, name in Bengal bypolls NEW DELHI: Election Commission Friday froze All India Trinamool Congress‘s reserved “flowers and grass” poll symbol after acknowledging a split between factions led by Mamata Banerjee and Arup Roy.Pending final settlement, neither faction can use AITC’s name or symbol. For Oct 6 assembly...

Provisional data compiled by Petroleum Planning & Analysis Cell showed that India imported 19 million tonnes (MT) of crude in Aug(Representative Image) NEW DELHI: India’s crude oil imports fell 3% in Aug from a year earlier while the import bill increased by over 18%, as renewed hostilities in West Asia disrupted energy supplies.Provisional data compiled...

PM Modi inaugurates SEMICON India 2026 at Yashobhoomi in New Delhi NEW DELHI: The AI boom is creating demand for new and reliable chip manufacturing hubs, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday, pitching India as a destination building the ecosystem that the global semiconductor industry needs.Inaugurating Semicon India 2026, the PM said AI was changing...

CBSE had decided to enforce the three-language policy for all classes from Class VI to X NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday rapped CBSE for being stubborn in its decision to enforce the three-language policy from this year for Class VI students and forced it to reconsider the decision with a clear mandate, camouflaged as...

Judge Amogh Shyamkant Kaloti has also worked as Joint Secretary, Secretary and SLA in Law and Judiciary Department, Government of Maharashtra MUMBAI: Till recently, Amogh Kaloti, who works under the law and judiciary department headed by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, was barely known outside Maharashtra’s legal circles. A low-profile district judge who was appointed Maharashtra’s...

The Centre asserted that it does not expect a decline in UPI transactions or increased use of cash NEW DELHI: Govt is in talks with payment aggregators and platforms, which onboard merchants, to ensure that the merchant discount rate (MDR) on transactions is not passed onto consumers, finance ministry officials told reporters Thursday.The Centre asserted...

Michael Jackson’s estate challenges Paris Jackson’s $1.16 million legal fee request after her $625,000 attorney bonus victory. Michael Jackson‘s estate has objected to Paris Jackson‘s request for more than $1.16 million in legal fees following her successful challenge to $625,000 in bonus payments made to attorneys working for her late father’s estate.According to court documents...

Smoke rises after an F-16 fighter jet crashed in a rural area near Traverse City (AP photo) An F-16 fighter jet from Texas crashed in rural Michigan on Thursday during a routine training exercise, with the pilot ejecting safely before being taken to a local hospital, a military spokesman said.The aircraft was taking part in...

Local residents gather at a mobile polling station during early voting in Russia’s parliamentary election Russians began voting on Friday in a three-day parliamentary election that will determine all 450 seats in the State Duma (lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia), the first such election since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine...

Raj is accused of publishing social media posts offering advice to foreign nationals on fraudulent visa and asylum applications LONDON: An Indian migrant has become the first person in the UK to be charged under a new law aimed at tackling illegal immigration.Hem Raj (24), an Indian national who lives in Smethwick, in the West...