BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav has assured that Munna Singh Gaud, the father of women’s World Cup-winning cricketer Kranti Gaud, will be reinstated as police constable. Gaud was dismissed in 2012 after an alleged error during election duty. The announcement came during Kranti’s felicitation ceremony in Bhopal, where the CM commended the bowler…
MUMBAI: In a step towards liquidation of Gitanjali Gems Ltd, the company at the centre of the Rs 23,000 crore Punjab National Bank fraud case involving Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi, a special PMLA court allowed the company’s liquidator to proceed with valuation and subsequent auction of 13 unsecured properties valued over Rs…
NEW DELHI: After Maharashtra government took exception and sought review of a September 11 order of a two-judge Supreme Court bench to set up an SIT comprising police officers from Hindu and Muslim communities to probe certain crimes during 2023 Akola communal riots, the same judges gave a split verdict – one allowing the review,…
Filmmaker Karan Johar revealed he won’t invite cricketers to his show after the 2019 Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul controversy. Their remarks led to severe backlash and temporary suspensions. Johar, speaking with Sania Mirza, confirmed he’s never asked Virat Kohli and avoids cricketers now due to the past incident’s fallout. It was back in 2019…
NEW DELHI: India’s plan to translocate 8-10 cheetahs from Botswana may get an official stamp during President Droupadi Murmu’s state visit to the African country. Riding on the success of previous translocation exercises from Namibia and South Africa, the fresh batch is most likely to arrive in Dec or Jan next year, depending on the…
The city woke up to a chilly Saturday covered in a blanket of smog on Saturday as the air quality deteriorated to ‘very poor’ levels, with several areas slipping into the ‘severe’ category and many others on the verge. It was also Delhi’s lowest minimum temperature for the month so far at 11C, three notches…
NEW DELHI: The winter session of Parliament will be held from December 1 to 19, government announced on Saturday, with the announcement triggering an angry reaction from the opposition, which described it as an unusually delayed and truncated session. The three-week session will have 15 sittings in all and is expected to be stormy as…
Former actor Zarine Khan, wife of Sanjay Khan and mother of Sussanne Khan and Zayed Khan, passed away on November 7 at her Mumbai residence. She was 81 and had been battling age-related ailments.Born Zarine Katrak in a Parsi family, she later married into a Muslim household. However, her son Zayed Khan performed her last…
TARN TARAN: With three days to go for the November 11 bypoll, EC on Saturday suspended Tarn Taran SSP Dr Ravjot Kaur Grewal following a complaint filed by Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal against “illegal detention” of Akali members, allegedly at the instance of the officer.Amritsar police commissioner Gurpreet Singh Bhullar has…
Prof Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman BENGALURU: Prof Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman, widely regarded as the “Pitamah” of computer science education in India, passed away due to age-related ailments at his Tatanagar residence here on Saturday aged 92. The students he taught included Faqir Chand Kohli, the first CEO of TCS, and Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy. Instrumental in establishing…
