NEW DELHI: “What Balasaheb Thackeray could not do, chief minister Fadnavis has managed to do.” This is what Raj Thackeray said as he shared the stage with his estranged cousin Uddhav Thackeray after almost twenty years.This came after both parties – MNS and Shiv Sena (UBT) – took credit for compelling the Devendra Fadnavis-led Maharashtra…
Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami (ANI) As chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami enters the fifth year of his tenure, the tax collection landscape in Uttarakhand is poised for a significant transformation. The state’s tax system is being enhanced with the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), aimed at making collections more efficient and robust. A proposal…
Sanjay Bhandari (File photo) NEW DELHI: A Delhi special court on Saturday declared arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari a Fugitive under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act today, following an application by the Enforcement Directorate.The special court issued the order under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act 2018.This ruling will likely strengthen India’s position in pursuing his extradition…
NEW DELHI: The validity of the Election Commission’s controversial decision to direct Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Electoral Rolls in Bihar just months before the polls has been challenged in the Supreme Court with Association for Democratic Reforms telling the court that the decision would disenfranchise lakhs of marginalised people in the state which is…
NEW DELHI: Several Amarnath pilgrims sustained minor injuries when five buses collided at the Chanderkot Langer site, said the Ramban Deputy Police commissioner Mohammed Alyas Khan.The convoy of buses travelling from Jammu’s Bhagwati Nagar to Pahalgam base camp in south Kashmir collided near Chanderkoot along the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway at approximately 8 am, officials said,…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday entertained Tamil Nadu’s petition questioning reasonableness of Madras HC’s order staying its legislation, which gave the state government, instead of the governor, the power to appoint University vice-chancellors, but refused M K Stalin government’s plea for suspending the HC order to re-operationalize the law.TN fielded a team of…
Despite global challenges, commerce & industry minister Piyush Goyal expects exports to scale a new high this year, aided by FTAs. While remaining upbeat on growth, he tells Sidhartha that investment is flowing into several sectors. He is pushing for a review of FTAs with Asean and Japan and is cautious on China. Excerpts:How much…
NEW DELHI: Following remarks by Union minister Kiren Rijiju backing the Dalai Lama’s announcement about his succession, including the statement that China will have no role in it, India on Friday said it had taken no position on what was an issue concerning faith and religion.Interestingly, the Chinese foreign ministry, after cautioning India at a…
NEW DELHI: Two woman candidates feature among the top three in the Common University Entrance Test for Undergraduate programmes (CUET-UG 2025), results for which were declared by National Testing Agency Friday. But declaration of results has not stopped candidates, including high scorers, from questioning syllabus deviations, errors in question papers and response sheets, as well…
NEW DELHI: Delhi HC has upheld ED‘s probe into real estate firm IREO Residences and dismissed a petition accusing the agency of bias.Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora, delivering the verdict Wednesday, pulled up petitioner Gulshan Babbar for suppressing key facts and imposed a cost of Rs 1.25 lakh on him for misleading the court.Babbar alleged…
