BHOPAL: What began as a frantic river rescue in MP’s Rajgarh district a fortnight ago, has unraveled into an elaborate fraud – Vishal Soni, son of Rajgarh BJP leader Mahesh Soni, fabricated his own death to evade Rs 1.40 crore in loans, sending police, administration, and SDERF teams on a 10-day, 20-km search of the…
MUMBAI: The CBI Thursday filed a chargesheet against Anil Ambani, chairman of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, along with Rana Kapoor, co-founder of Yes Bank, and the latter’s wife, Bindu, and daughters, Radha Kapoor & Roshni, for fraudulent loan transactions that resulted in a loss of Rs 2,797 crore to the bank.The chargesheet says the bank…
KOLKATA: The United States is likely to withdraw the 25% penal tariff on India and there are expectations that the issue could be resolved by end Nov, chief economic adviser V Anantha Nageswaran said on Thursday. Speaking to members of the Bharat Chamber of Commerce here, Nageswaran said: “In the next 8-10 weeks, we could…
BENGALURU: Indian universities and research organisations can now become part of a new international consortium launched by Axiom Space to drive microgravity science and innovation in low-Earth orbit.Axiom, whose Ax-4 mission took India’s Shubhanshu Shukla to the International Space Station (ISS) and back, already has a partnership with Indian space startup Skyroot Aerospace to jointly…
LONDON: US President Donald Trump repeated his claim at a press conference at Chequers, the UK PM’s official country retreat, that his intervention had stopped the brief India-Pakistan conflict earlier this year, a claim refuted umpteen times by India.Trump, speaking on the final day of his state visit to Britain, said he personally had stopped…
The Indian government reacted cautiously to the strategic mutual defence pact that Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have signed, saying it’s studying the implications of the development and remains committed to protecting India’s national interests and ensuring comprehensive national security in all domains. The agreement, which states that any aggression against either country shall be considered…
JAMMU: The Vaishno Devi yatra resumed Thursday morning from Katra town in Reasi district of Jammu & Kashmir after a night-long halt due to inclement weather, with the authorities starting fresh registration of pilgrims.Suspended on Aug 26 after a landslide on the trek route led to multiple deaths, the yatra was earlier scheduled to begin…
SRINAGAR: J&K’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and at least two senior politicians – PDP president and ex-CM Mehbooba Mufti and Sajad Lone of People’s Conference – alleged on Thursday that the administration ordered their house arrest to prevent them from attending the funeral of pro-Pakistan separatist Abdul Gani Bhat.“I have been locked up inside…
JAMMU: Senior advocate Nirmal K Kotwal on Thursday recused himself from representing Aam Aadmi Party’s Doda MLA Mehraj Malik, who has been detained under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA), citing certain videos on social media in which the legislator is purportedly heard praising terrorists Masood Azhar and Burhan Wani and stating that Jammu and…
SRINAGAR: J&K CM Omar Abdullah vowed Thursday to press Union home minister Amit Shah to reopen tourist spots sealed after the April 22 Pahalgam terrorist attack that killed 26 men — 25 most of them visitors.Addressing Travel Agents Association of Kashmir (TAAK) at Gulmarg Convention Centre, Omar told industry stakeholders he would raise their concerns…
