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New Delhi: Bollywood actor Dino Morea and popular disc jockey DJ Aqeel, who is the son-in-law of actor-director Sanjay Khan, on Monday skipped the Enforcement Directorate’s summons in the Rs 8,100 crore Sterling Biotech loan fraud case. A senior official told IANS: “The agency had summoned Morea and Aqeel last week but they skipped the […]

New Delhi: The consumer mobile business of Tata Teleservices has now become part of telecom operator Bharti Airtel, the two companies said on Monday. Airtel stocks closed marginally up following the announcement. The consumer mobile businesses of Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) and Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited (TTML) have been merged into Bharti Airtel Limited and […]

San Francisco: In a bid to maintain the elections’ integrity, Facebook is set to ban ads that urge people not to vote ahead of the 2020 US Presidential election, according to its annual civil rights audit released on Sunday. Following the 2016 US Presidential election, Facebook faced flak for failure to stop those who used […]

Hyderabad/New Delhi: The brutal attack of a woman forest officer with huge bamboo sticks in Telangana by some people allegedly led by the brother of a ruling TRS MLA unleashed a torrent of rage with the victim on Monday saying even animals are not hit this way. As the attack on C Anita, the 34-year-old […]

Cuttack: A lady teacher is now battling for life at SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack after she was brutally attacked by a person inside her classroom in Niali area on Monday. As per sources, the victim, Suchismita Muduli was teaching her students at Ambapada ME School when a man barged into the classroom […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend a function to mark the 550th birth anniversary of Sri Guru Nanak Dev on November 12 at Sultanpur Lodhi in Punjab, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) said Monday. A SAD delegation led by its president Sukhbir Singh Badal met Modi here and invited him to attend the […]

New Delhi: In signs of sluggish momentum in tax collections, Goods and Services Tax (GST) receipts in June fell to Rs 99,939 crore, down from over Rs 1 lakh crore in the previous month, the finance ministry said Monday. While the GST collections in June were lower than Rs 1,00,289 crore in May, they were […]

New Delhi: The BJP-TMC sparring over violence in West Bengal continued with Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday saying the Centre has a right to advise Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to “immediately stop” the spate of political killings. Rejecting TMC’s charge of being selective in issuing advisories to West Bengal while ignoring Bihar and Uttar […]

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday asserted that the Modi government has zero tolerance for terrorism and is committed towards development of Jammu and Kashmir. Shah, while replying to a debate in Rajya Sabha on a statutory resolution to extend President’s rule in J-K by six months, reiterated that the state is […]

New Delhi: President’s Rule in Jammu and Kashmir was on Monday extended by another six months, with the Parliament giving its nod amidst the government’s assertion that it would hold the Assembly polls in the state by this year end as and when the Election Commission (EC) takes a decision in this regard. The Rajya […]

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers’ Cadre) Bill, 2019, which aims to ensure reservation in teaching positions in central institutions for persons from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Socially and Educationally Backward Classes and the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS). It will also allow filling about 7,000-8,000 existing […]

New Delhi: On the lines of the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’, the Central government on Monday launched ‘Jal Shakti Abhiyan’ – a campaign for water conservation and water security, in the wake of an acute water crisis in the country. Teams of officers from the Central government will visit and work with district administration in 1,592 […]

Mumbai: At least 13 persons were killed in a wall crash in Malad, north-west Mumbai and another seven perished in a wall collapse in Pune, early on Tuesday as rains continued to wreak havoc in large parts of Maharashtra. In the wake of the incessant rainfall, the state government has declared July 2 as a […]

Bhubaneswar: Awaiting the Merit List of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET)? The Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE) Authority has published the State Merit List on the official website for the MBBS and BDS candidates who have completed their document verification. Sources said 3657 candidates have been allotted ranks for admissions into MBBS and BDS […]

Mumbai: The Central Railway (CR) early on Tuesday suspended suburban train services after incessant heavy rain flooded tracks at several spots between Mumbai-Thane, and services on Western Railway were also hit as Maharashtra government declared a precautionery public holiday for the city, officials said. The CR train services, which were earlier suspended between Thane-Kurla, were […]