NEW DELHI: The Union home ministry cancelled Thursday the licence issued under Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 to Ladakh activist Sonam Wangchuk‘s NGO, Students Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh, over alleged violations. Wangchuk had alleged that the govt was building a case to put him behind bars.The cancellation came hours after MHA attributed Wednesday’s…
PUNE: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday called upon banks and financial institutions with strong balance sheets to step up lending for public infrastructure, industry and the MSME sector.Addressing the Foundation Day event of Bank of Maharashtra, Sitharaman highlighted the critical role of banks amid growing global uncertainty. “The global environment has become increasingly unpredictable….
NEW DELHI: IRS officer and former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director Sameer Wankhede has filed a defamation suit in Delhi high court against the makers of the Netflix drama series ‘The Ba***ds of Bollywood’.The suit filed on Thursday seeks an injunction and Rs 2 crore in damages for misleading and negative portrayal of anti-drug…
Lucknow: The Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) on Thursday launched a 156-hour cleanliness drive across 110 wards under its ongoing cleanliness campaign. Mayor Sushma Kharkwal flagged off the drive at Power House crossing in Vidyavati Ward, Zone 8, in the presence of corporators and additional municipal commissioner Arvind Kumar Rao. The mayor said the drive aimed…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has said that criminal law cannot become a platform for initiation of vindictive proceedings to settle personal scores and vendettas, and derided the increasing resort to lodging of FIRs to settle civil disputes.While quashing an FIR lodged more than two decades ago for the offence of cheating in a land transaction…
Lucknow: A complaint was lodged at Kakori police station on Thursday against an offensive post targeting Prophet Muhammad. The complaint said a post on Instagram insulting the Prophet had hurt religious sentiments of the community. The accused is class 9 student of a private school. After the matter came to light, the school management expelled…
Lucknow: Hindi author Shivmurti engaged readers and visitors at the ongoing Gomti Book Fair on the campus of Lucknow University, organised by National Book Trust. Known for his portrayal of rural India, Shivmurti said literature remains relevant if it reflects human values and will to live.“Spartacus lived in 50 BC, yet Howard Fast’s 20th-century novel…
Lucknow: Lucknow Development Authority expedited ongoing work at Rashtriya Prerna Sthal, including construction and landscaping tasks which will be taken up on priority for its timely completion.Spanning across 65 acres, the memorial and cultural complex is along Gomti river in Basant Kunj Yojana, Sector-J, in the shape of a lotus, with provisions for public events,…
Lucknow: Governor Anandiben Patel and general secretary of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerthkshetra Trust Champat Rai took part in a Kanya Pujan event organised by Prerna Parivar at Raj Bhawan on Thursday. As many as 5100 girls from 251 villages were welcomed with tilak and chunri (scarf). They were given a plate of food offerings and…
Bollywood rom-com collides with Kannada epic—October 2 is set to ignite one of the fiercest box office battles of the year. On one side stands Varun Dhawan’s Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari, a Dharma-backed family entertainer directed by Shashank Khaitan. On the other, Rishab Shetty returns with the thunderous Kantara: Chapter 1, a Kannada magnum…