MUMBAI: A special court for MP/MLA cases that last month accepted the economic offences wing’s closure report in the Rs 25,000-crore Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSCB) scam case involving the late Ajit Pawar , deputy CM Sunetra Pawar and their nephew NCP-SP MLA Rohit Pawar held in many instances that “no loss was caused to…
CHENNA: An Emirates flight bound for Dubai from Chennai with 206 passengers on board was forced to make a U-turn over the Arabian Sea in the early hours of Monday, reports Venkadesan S. The decision was taken after authorities alerted the pilot about a fire at Dubai airport triggered by drone strikes near a fuel…
NEW DELHI: Govt “categorically” rejected as motivated and biased the characterisation of India in the latest US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) report that alleged deterioration of religious freedom in India and sought its designation as a country of particular concern. The report had also called for sanctions on Research & Analysis Wing and…
NEW DELHI: India’s domestic LPG production has been ramped up by 36% in a fortnight to meet demand for domestic cylinders, even as the overall availability of cooking gas remains “worrisome”, the petroleum ministry said on Monday. Sujata Sharma, joint secretary in the ministry of petroleum and natural gas, said consumers of both domestic and…
NEW DELHI: Row 32 and 33 passengers snoozing on board Air India’s new Airbus A350 winging its way from New York to Delhi were rudely awaken by floor vibrations and sound from below their feet, reports Saurabh Sinha. They alerted crew members. Flying near the coast of Ireland at that time, the pilots decided to…
KOLLAM: A maritime trainee from Chandanathope in Kerala’s Kollam is stranded on an Iranian cargo vessel mid-sea off Sharjah coast for nearly a month. His family is worried that he is suffering. Akhimon M, 21, had joined Iran-based cargo vessel Queen Star and travelled to the country on April 14 last year. After completing training…
NEW DELHI: In its crackdown against secessionist elements in Manipur, ED has attached assets worth over Rs 50 crore including properties of self-styled “CM of Manipur state council” Yambem Biren and his “foreign and defence minister” Narengbam Samarjit, both being probed by multiple central agencies for their “antiIndia activities and waging war against the State”….
JAIPUR: A joint team of Rajasthan ATS and Hanumangarh police is set to visit Ambala after Haryana STF arrested three suspected terrorists with an improvised explosive device, triggering security concerns in Rajasthan and neighbouring states, report Ashish Mehta and Kshitiz Gaur.During preliminary questioning, the accused allegedly said they were planning explosions in several cities across…
KOLKATA: Bengal’s chief electoral officer (CEO) has directed ADG (legal) to submit a report on poll-related violence during the 2021 Bengal assembly election and the 2024 LS polls, reports Debashis Konar. In a letter dated March 15, CEO Manoj Agarwal sought a list of police station-level officers under whose jurisdiction violence occurred before, during and…
KOLKATA: Four prominent CPM functionaries who became faces of protests after the 2024 rape-murder of a resident doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital will contest the West Bengal assembly elections in April. Outgoing Rajya Sabha MP Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, student activist Dipsita Dhar, youth functionary Kalatan Dasgupta and rising Left face Minakshi…
