Hong Kong fire (AP photo) Hong Kong, one of the world’s major financial centres, saw a tragic incident on Wednesday afternoon when a massive fire swept through high-rise towers. The flames tore through the Wang Fuk Court complex in Tai Po, killing more than 90 people and leaving hundreds injured or missing.As the fire raged,…
NEW DELHI: The income tax department has launched a fresh campaign to nudge those with overseas assets or income to disclose details in India. Initially, around 25,000 high-risk cases will be targeted through SMS and e-mails, with the campaign proposed to be expanded mid-Dec to cover others, and improve the compliance ecosystem.The initiative comes exactly…
Rishabh Pant and Gautam Gambhir (BCCI Photo) NEW DELHI: Former India spinner Harbhajan Singh did not hold back after India slipped to their second home Test series defeat against South Africa. He said that if Indian cricket wants to protect its “future generations”, the team management must rethink its approach to home pitches and move…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday suggested enacting a law on the line of the stringent SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act to deter ridiculing of differently abled people, but the Union govt flagged the potential adverse impact of such legislation on creative artists depicting individuals with disability in movies and theatres.Hearing a petition…
Lucknow: The arrest of Abhinav Sharma — a Mathura-trained engineer who astonishingly travelled to more than 110 countries while allegedly running a Rs 100 crore NEET admission racket — has left investigators reeling.What police initially thought was just another examination fraud exploded into a story of unimaginable scale: a BTech (Mechanical) graduate from an obscure…
‘Right to free speech must be given the widest width. But in the case of content on social media, prosecution is a post-occurrence proceeding. There should be preventive mechanisms to stop spreading misinformation and damage to society,’ the SC bench said NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday told the information and broadcasting ministry to prepare…
NEW DELHI: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), which now fully secures the Parliament House complex (PHC), has okayed an extended four-year tenure for its personnel on Parliament security duty, which may be further stretched by a year. The move is aimed at striking the right balance between operational continuity, so as to enhance familiarity…
NEW DELHI: BJP claimed on Thursday that foreign-based influencers in league with Congress, pretending to be neutrals, are behind promoting anti-govt narratives, including over “vote chori” and Operation Sindoor, and personal attacks on PM Narendra Modi, and said Rahul Gandhi is unfit to be a politician in India.BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra cited a new feature…
Lucknow: It’s a myth that Qawwali is related to a particular religion or language and is only sung in Arabic and Persian. In fact, it is sung in Hindi, Awadhi, and many more languages, said Kathak exponent Manjari Chaturvedi during her session on ‘Qawwali: The Call of Hearts in Love’ on the first day of…
Calling the death of 26 BLOs over the last 20 days “murder” by BJP brass and CEC, Congress on Thursday alleged that the governing party is seeking to divert attention from “blatant vote chori” by peddling lies about the location of social media ‘X’ handles linked to Congress, arguing that BJP handles too are shown…
