Kingfisher Airlines Chairman Vijay Mallya claimed privilege in the Supreme Court from divulging details of his overseas assets to his debtor banks, saying a Non-Resident Indian (NRI) like him is not obliged to disclose riches abroad even in “Indian income tax returns”. In a 41-page affidavit filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday, Mr. Mallya said his lenders have no […]
» Read moreThe Islamic State (IS), notorious for its brutality, has reportedly executed 250 girls in northern Iraq for refusing to become sex slaves, according to a media report. The girls had been ordered to accept temporary marriages to the terrorists and were murdered, sometimes alongside their families, for their refusal to be sex slaves in Iraq’s second largest city of Mosul. […]
» Read moreAn 18-month-old infant, Manyatha, has been saved from a life threatening situation caused by ingesting an open safety pin. Doctors at Satish Gastro and Liver Center in the recently removed the pin from the infant’s stomach using advanced endoscopic procedure. Explaining the case of Manyatha, who hails from Nuzvid, on Wednesday, gastroenterologist J. Satish said that the child accidentally swallowed […]
» Read moreIndia ranks an abysmally low at 133 among 180 countries in the latest annual World Press Freedom Index, which says Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems “indifferent” to the threats against journalists. The 2016 ‘World Press Freedom Index’ released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is led by Finland, which retained its top spot for the sixth consecutive year, followed by the […]
» Read moreAn engineering student was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly hacking the Facebook profile and email account of RJD supremo Laluprasad Yadav. The Facebook profile of Yadav was hacked by the criminals on March 13. An FIR was lodged by his son and deputy CM Tejashwi Prasad Yadav with Secretariat police station and sections 419, 420 and 506 of IPC was lodged […]
» Read moreApple has updated its 12-inch MacBook line of laptops with faster processors, Retina display, USB-C port and Force Touch trackpad. The new MacBook is 13.1mm thin, weighs 900 gram (approximately) and has a battery capable of up to 10 hours of wireless web browsing on a single charge. Featuring an all-metal unibody enclosure, MacBook is now available in four aluminum finishes […]
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