File photo: Ex-Uttarakhand CM Harish Rawat NEW DELHI: With return of rumblings in Uttarakhand Congress on the eve of assembly elections, former CM Harish Rawat has sought time with party brass to clarify his “thanksgiving yatra” in the wake of AICC’s strong censure.A terse letter by Kumari Selja, AICC in-charge of state, has dubbed Rawat’s…
23-year legal duel (representative image) NEW DELHI: Nearly 23 years after it stayed the arrests of some journalists following the Tamil Nadu assembly passing a breach of privilege resolution against them, the hearing scheduled before a seven-judge Supreme Court bench Wednesday, which promised to be a legal duel over the media’s right to free speech…
Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo has done what he is best at, lashing out at the US President Donald Trump. The actor recently made a passionate speech at a Hands Off Our Vote event in New York City, and said that if Trump doesn’t mend his ways, and attempts to restrict voting in the upcoming midterm…
Shares of Raymond Realty Ltd. jumped as much as 5% in intraday trade on Monday, October 5, after the company’s quarterly pre-sales nearly doubled in the second quarter of FY27, according to a regulatory filing. The stock pared some of those gains after the initial spike The company’s pre-sales surged 98% to ₹902 crore from…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission officials said Monday Form 6 had not been changed; only an additional declaration form had been introduced under the SIR documentation framework, to accompany it.The clarification followed CJI Surya Kant’s observation that “any modified Form 6 has not been approved by us”.This had led LoP Rahul Gandhi to accuse CEC Gyanesh…
File photo: Supreme Court NEW DELHI: Union law ministry Monday notified appointment of three judges for Supreme Court, taking the total strength of the apex court to 37 judges, including Chief Justice of India, against a sanctioned strength of 38 judges. The new judges will take oath of office likely Tuesday.The three new judges for…
CreditAccess Grameen Ltd. reported a 19.4% year-on-year increase in disbursements to ₹6,355 crore in the second quarter of fiscal 2027, while the lender added 2.3 lakh new borrowers during the quarter, up 6.6% from a year earlier. The company said business momentum remained balanced during the seasonally weaker second quarter. Retail finance assets under management…
RAF Fairford – in the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire – has been at the centre of an incident being investigated by counter-terror police. Five men were initially arrested on suspicion of terror offences and subsequently released on bail. A sixth man, a UK-Iranian national, was also later arrested and released on bail. Following the release of…
File photo: Former CJI Gavai NEW DELHI: Justice Ujjal Bhuyan’s criticism of deletion of a large number of voters through the special intensive revision (SIR) process, when the issue is pending adjudication before Supreme Court, drew a sharp reaction from former CJI BR Gavai, who termed it judicial impropriety.The former CJI refrained from directly commenting…
An Indian student said the F1 visa interview date was cancelled for refusing to pay an additional fee to an agent. An Indian student claimed on Reddit that an agent asked for an additional Rs 20,000 for an F-1 visa interview, which the Redditor refused to pay and received a message that the appointment was…
