New Delhi: Supreme Court Thursday refused to entertain a doctor’s plea seeking suspension of the sentence of life imprisonment awarded to him after being convicted under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (Pocso) for raping his seven-year-old daughter.A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma said he was not entitled…
Higher loans, credit cards coming street vendors’ way NEW DELHI: With the contours of the revamped PM SVANidhi scheme having been finalised, street vendors will be getting higher subsidised loans, as well as credit cards with a limit of Rs 30,000, on account of banks coming on board. The credit cards will be issued by…
HYDERABAD: In an escalation of intra-party squabbling in Telangana, Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLC and former MP Kalvakuntla Kavitha, daughter of party supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao, Thursday accused senior netas within her own party of attempting to merge BRS with BJP – a move she says she vehemently opposed even while incarcerated in the Delhi liquor…
The Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) has officially released the schedule for the upcoming Junior Engineer (Civil) examination for recruitment into the Public Works Roads Department (PWRD) and Public Works (Building & NH) Department. As per the schedule released, the exam will be conducted on June 29, 2025. Registered candidates will be able to download…
Representative image (Picture credit: ANI) New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday appointed Justices N V Anjaria, Vijay Bishnoi and Atil S Chandurkar as judges of the Supreme Court within three days of the SC’s five-judge collegium led by CJI B R Gavai recommending their names.CJI Gavai will administer the oath of office to the…
PM Modi repeatedly called out Bengal’s “nirmam sarkar (cruel government)” at a public meeting in Alipurduar, signalling BJP’s strategy for 2026 assembly elections.Modi devoted over half his 35-minute speech to attacking Trinamool on issues ranging from teachers’ recruitment scam to recent violent anti-Waqf law protests in Murshidabad. But the loudest cheers came when he shifted…
NEW DELHI: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) will review fraud-hit IndusInd Bank’s financial statements for 2023-24 and 2024-25. ICAI’s Financial Reporting Review Board (FRRB) will carry out the review. FRRB conducts the review of financial statements of companies to assess compliance with accounting standards, standards on auditing, among others. Starting with a…
PUNE: Pune police arrested on Wednesday night Dr Ajay Taware, the suspended head of Sassoon General Hospital’s forensic science department, in the 2022 kidney transplant case at Ruby Hall Clinic after securing his custody from Yerawada Central Jail earlier the same evening, reports Vishwas Kothari & Asseem Shaikh.On Thursday afternoon, investigating officer ACP Ganesh Ingale…
MEMARI/BONGAON: A 35-year-old jobless engineer from West Bengal, Humayun Kabir, killed his parents at their home in Memari in East Burdwan district, and then travelled to Bongaon near India-Bangladesh border, where he stabbed and injured four teachers and staffers at an orphanage-madrasa, before being arrested on Wednesday, reports Mohammad Asif & Sanjib Chakraborty.Initial probe revealed…
NEW DELHI: It was literally a baptism by fire for the young women BSF personnel deployed at the international border (IB) in J&K’s Akhnoor sector during Operation Sindoor. Led by Assistant Commandant Neha Bhandari who joined the force barely three years ago but seized the “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity to engage the enemy forces in active combat…
