NEW DELHI: After countering the Muslim side’s argument that non-Muslims could theoretically form a majority in the Central Waqf Council and Auqaf Boards, Centre told Supreme Court Wednesday that an ill-founded attempt was made to project discrimination of Muslims by comparing composition of waqf bodies with religious endowment boards of Hindus, Sikhs and Christians.Solicitor general…
NEW DELHI: Intelligence agencies dismantled a high-stakes espionage ring in a meticulously planned three-month-long covert operation, dealing a significant blow to ISI’s attempts to carry out a terrorist strike in the national capital.The operation culminated in the arrest of two highly trained individuals, includingAnsarul Miya Ansari, a Pakistani operative tasked with gathering sensitive information about…
NEW DELHI: Producing historical proof that the law mandated registration of all kinds of waqf properties, including those in the ‘waqf by user’ category, since 1923, Centre on Wednesday told Supreme Court that the legal requirement was deliberately flouted to subserve vested interests, a menace sought to be eradicated by the Waqf Amendment Act, 2025.Solicitor…
Justice Yashwant Varma (File photo) NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea seeking registration of FIR against Justice Yashwant Varma in connection with alleged recovery of cash from his residence and said the in-house inquiry report against him had been sent to the President and PM.Indicating that the judiciary had done its task…
MUMBAI: IndusInd Bank reported a quarterly loss of Rs 2,236 crore for the three months ending March 2025, reversing a net profit of Rs 2,346 crore in the same period a year earlier. It was the bank’s first quarterly loss since March 2006.This disclosure follows the abrupt exits of its chief executive and his deputy…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted interim bail to Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad but refused to stay the FIR and ordered the Haryana DGP to constitute an SIT of IPS officers to probe the bona fides of his allegedly objectionable statement made during Operation Sindoor.Applying the standards of scrutiny enforced in…
NEW DELHI/RAIPUR: CPI (Maoist) chief Nambala Keshava Rao, alias Basavaraju – mastermind of some of the deadliest Maoist attacks in the country – was killed in Chhattisgarh‘s Narayanpur on Wednesday in an intelligence-based operation conducted by the state police’s District Reserve Guard (DRG).Twenty-six other Maoists were also eliminated. A massive haul of modern weapons and…
File Photo: Microsoft engineer Vaniya Agrawal was removed from a company event after causing a disruption. The Indian-American engineer Vaniya Agrawal who disrupted Microsoft’s 50th anniversary celebrations in April this year again created disorder at another high-profile Microsoft event. In the latest incident, she disrupted Microsoft’s ongoing developer event, Build 2025. Microsoft Build is the…
KARWAR: The Navy commissioned INSV Kaundinya, a 20m-long sailing yacht based on a 5th-century fresco at the Ajanta caves, at the Karwar naval base on Wednesday.The wooden ship, stitched together entirely by hand in Goa, will embark on a transoceanic voyage along the ancient trade route from Gujarat to Oman, scheduled for later this year….
KANPUR: Like Jerry the mouse drawn irresistibly to cheese, turtles in a Kanpur temple pond surface eagerly for cubes of paneer – a bizarre twist in their dietary tale that has both devotees and conservationists doing a double take.Roughly 150 turtles reside in a 2-bigha pond beside Panki Dham, a temple complex also known as…
