The Supreme Court on Thursday put forth searching questions to businessman Vijay Mallya on the disclosure of his assets to the court. A bench, comprising Justices A.K. Goel and U.U. Lalit, asked Mr. Mallya if he was truthful after a consortium of banks led by the SBI alleged that $40 million was transferred by him to his three children in […]
» Read moreFor the first time, an Indian educational institute has broken into the top 10 of a global university rankings. On Tuesday, the Times Higher Education (THE) revealed that India is home to one of the world’s best small universities, as it made public the 2017 edition of the rankings. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has been ranked eighth at the […]
» Read moreEgypt’s Eman Ahmed may soon shed the tag of being the world’s heaviest woman after having lost over 120kg in less than a month. The doctors at Saifee Hospital, who are awaiting her gene test report, said a bariatric surgery may still be necessary . Ahmed, who had left her home in Alexandria after 25 years and airlifted to Mumbai, […]
» Read moreAn Indian national in New Zealand was assaulted, subjected to a racist tirade and told to go back to his own country during a road rage incident in Auckland, a media report said on Monday. Narindervir Singh said he was filming from inside his vehicle when the incident happened on a weekday last week. “I gave him a space… that […]
» Read moreThe United States on Monday assured India of “speedy justice” to the Indian-American victims of hate-related crimes. India’s Ambassador to the U.S. Navtej Sarna reached out to the State Department to convey his “deep concerns” to the government on the recent tragic incidents involving Harnish Patel and Deep Rai. “State Department, on behalf of the U.S. government, expressed condolences and […]
» Read moreTwo militants were killed in an encounter with the security forces in south Kashmir’s Tral area on Sunday morning. Reports suggest that the militants were hiding in a residential area at Nazneenpora village. A J&K police constable, identified as Manzoor Ahmed, lost his life in the encounter, which is now over. On Saturday evening, a cordon and search operation was […]
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