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No exception made for CM: SC on interim bail, arrest plea
New Delhi: As Enforcement Directorate contended that Arvind Kejriwal should not be given special treatment by entertaining his plea challenging arrest, Supreme Court on Thursday said no exception had been made for the Delhi chief minister in hearing ...
Selectors can’t choose World Cup squad based on IPL alone: Jay Shah
Expressing optimism that the Indian men’s cricket team will win the 2024 T20 World Cup after suffering a loss in the final of the ODI tournament last year, BCCI secretary Jay Shah said the squad has a good balance between form and experience. “The se...
ED can’t arrest accused once court takes cognisance of complaint: SC
New Delhi: Reducing the rigour of Prevention of Money Laundering Act proceedings, Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Enforcement Directorate officials have no power to arrest an accused if he had not been arrested before the special court took cogn...
In 3rd term, NDA will ban cow slaughter, build Sita temple: Shah
Patna: Home minister Amit Shah promised at a rally in Bihar Thursday that if voted to a third consecutive term in office, NDA would ban cow slaughter and “straighten” offenders, including those involved in cow smuggling, “by hanging them upside down”...
Delhi Police files FIR after Maliwal claims ‘brutal assault’ by CM’s aide in statement
New Delhi: In a move that is likely to spell trouble for CM Arvind Kejriwal’s aide, Bibhav Kumar, Delhi Police filed an FIR on Thursday in connection with the alleged assault on AAP’s Rajya Sabha member Swati Maliwal a few days ago. In the statement ...
Times City
Not-So-Special Cell? The Slide Of Anti-Terror Unit
New Delhi: They don’t don the police uniform. They sport unkempt beards, untucked shirts with rolled-up sleeves, and trendy sports shoes. They don’t carry holsters, their Glocks are usually concealed at their backs. Meet the sleuths of the Special Ce...
Road rage: Man, sister beaten by 4, car damaged
New Delhi: In an apparent case of road rage, a man and his sister were beaten by at least four people and their car was damaged in South Extension Part-I on Wednesday. The incident occurred after the car brushed past one of them.Police received a cal...
‘Bomb’ note in toilet causes chaos on flight
New Delhi: A tissue paper with the word, “bomb”, written on it triggered chaos on an Air India flight, which was supposed to fly from Delhi to Vadodara on Wednesday evening. At the time of the incident, which took place just before the departure, the...
Ill-gotten credit: ‘Robin Hood’ who tampered with ATMs held
New Delhi: Rajendra Kumar Meena was popular as the “Robin Hood” of his village in Rajasthan. He used to offer financial aid to the underprivileged and was always ready to help them. Cashing in on his popularity, he was even planning to contest for th...
Capital gets its hottest day of year, heatwave likely tomorrow
New Delhi: Delhi witnessed this season’s highest maximum temperature on Thursday as the mercury rose to 42.5 degrees Celsius, two degrees above normal. The heatwave conditions are likely at isolated places on Saturday as the day temperature is predic...
Nation
Billboard company chief held from Rajasthan; DGP notice to ex-Mumbai GRP head
Mumbai: Bhavesh Bhinde, 51, director of the company behind the hoarding that crashed on a petrol pump in Ghatkopar on Monday killing 16, was arrested from Udaipur in Rajasthan on Thursday. On the run since the collapse, he had checked into a hotel bo...
Ex-judge & BJP pick on Mamata: ‘What is your price, 10 lakh? I suspect if she’s a woman at all’
Kolkata: TMC dashed off a complaint to EC against BJP’s Tamluk candidate and ex-HC judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Thursday over what it said were “unbelievably disparaging and misogynistic” remarks in public against Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, includin...
2-judge bench recalls another 2-judge bench’s 3-yr-old order
New Delhi: A two-judge bench of Supreme Court on Thursday recalled a three-year-old verdict of another two-judge bench, faulting it for breaching the elementary yet sacrosanct ‘stare decisis’ judicial discipline under which a larger bench’s rulings a...
ED: Alamgir took 1.5% cut from every contractor who got work
New Delhi: Arrested Jharkhand minister for rural development Alamgir Alam received bribes from every contractor who was awarded work under his ministry, and the share of payoffs was 1.5% of the value of allocated work, ED alleged in its remand note w...
Kid in hospital for finger surgery, operated on tongue instead
Kozhikode: In yet another case of shocking medical negligence at govt medical college in Kerala’s Kozhikode, a four-year-old girl scheduled to undergo surgery for removal of an additional finger in her hand (polydactyly) was instead operated on her t...
Business
Sensex swings 1,200 pts, ends higher even as volatility spikes
Mumbai: The volatility on Dalal Street continued on Thursday with the sensex swinging over 1,200 points intraday and closing with a gain of nearly 700 points. As has been the case in the past few sessions, it’s the buying by domestic funds that more ...
‘War ties’: Norway fund to sell Adani Ports stake
Mumbai: Norges Bank, Norway’s central bank, has decided to exclude Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone from its government pension fund over ethical concerns. This means the $1.7-trillion fund — the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund by assets u...
Vedanta looks to pare debt with Rs 8,500 crore fund-raise
Mumbai: Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta plans to raise up to Rs 8,500 crore but hasn’t decided on the type of issuance, the company said on Thursday. The move comes as it looks to pare its debt of over Rs 56,300 crore.This is the second time the company is ...
M&M lines up Rs 37k crore capex over 3 years, EVs to get Rs 12k crore
Chennai: Mahindra & Mahindra has announced a capex of Rs 37,000 crore to be spent over the next three years — from FY25 to FY27. The company plans to spend Rs 14,000 crore on petrol and diesel vehicles while another Rs 12,000 crore has been lined...
‘Specific-event policies will shape future of insurers’ biz’
Mumbai: Parametric insurance, which pays out claims on the happening of a specific event, usually weather-related, can be a force for good in helping the underprivileged. It can be a high-growth commercial insurance according to the chief of Howden, ...
Editorial
Courting The Cops, Always
On Wednesday, Supreme Court declared the arrest of Prabir Purkayastha, founder of NewsClick, illegal and ordered his release from custody. Purkayastha had been in police and judicial custody since October last year, in connection with a case under pr...
Metropolitics
The vote in financial capital Mumbai’s six Lok Sabha constituencies is on May 20. Capital Delhi’s seven LS seats vote on May 25. Mumbai barely stayed off the headlines – selecting candidates was messy for the four regional parties, and for BJP and Co...
Didigiri In A Bengal Divided By Class
Once again, Mamata Banerjee is in a fierce fight to defend her turf from BJP. And once again, Didi is fighting alone as her INDIA coalition partners contest separately. In 2011, Trinamool Congress formed the govt after 34 years of Left Front govt in ...
It’s Courage, Not Crime
Whistleblowers have it tough across the world. The Supreme Court in Canberra, Australia, recently sentenced former Australian army lawyer David McBride for revealing information about alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan. This comes seven yea...
Time To Enlighten, Educate And Express
Leaders are the most important people in society. They define the goals, priorities and progress of a nation. They represent the nation on the world stage through conduct, character, and personality. They influence the aspirations, attitudes and mind...
World
Slovak PM in serious but stable condition, can speak a little: Ally
Bratislava/Banska Bystrica: Slovakia’s PM Robert Fico remains in a serious but stable condition and is able to speak a little, the country’s prez-elect said Thursday, a day after an assassination attempt that sent shock waves across Europe. The shoot...
Forging anti-US alliance, Putin & Xi vow ‘new era’ of partnership
Beijing/Moscow: China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Thursday pledged a “new era” of partnership between the two most powerful rivals of the United States, which they cast as an aggressive Cold War hegemon that was sowing chaos across th...
US DoJ formally moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug
Washington: The US justice department on Thursday formally moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in a historic shift in generations of US drug policy.A proposed rule sent to the federal register recognises the medical uses of cannabi...
EU opens investigation into Meta over addictive social media effects on kids
EU regulators on Thursday opened investigations into the American tech giant Meta for the potentially addictive effects Instagram and Facebook have on children, an action with far-reaching implications because it cuts to the core of how the company’s...
Scientists prove Einstein’s ‘plunging regions’ exist around black holes
A new study by an international team led by researchers at Oxford University Physics has provided the first observational proof of a key prediction from Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity: the existence of “plunging regions” around black holes. “Ein...
Sports
As dismal season ends, KL and Hardik look for a T20 reboot
Mumbai: Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul’s careers as international cricketers were in trouble in Jan 2019 after they appeared on a TV show where they made misogynistic comments.They were called back midway through the Australian tour, suspension loomed be...
Match called off, SRH seal playoffs spot
Hyderabad: Sunrisers Hyderabad sealed the playoffs berth despite not taking the field as rain played spoilsport in their much-anticipated clash against Gujarat Titans at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket stadium on Thursday.One point from this w...
‘Once done, you won’t see me for a while’
Bengaluru: Well aware that he “can’t keep going forever”, Indian batting superstar Virat Kohli wants to give everything he has to his cricket career because he once he is done, he says he would be “gone” and won’t be seen “for a while.”Kohli’s appeti...
India likely to play only one T20 World Cup warmup
New Delhi: India’s only warm-up game ahead of the T20 World Cup is likely to be played against Bangladesh in New York on June 1, the day when Canada will play co-hosts USA in the tournament opener in Dallas. The 34,000 capacity makeshift stadium at E...
IPL SCENARIO
* KKR are already assured of sole top spot* If RR win their last game against KKR, they will be guaranteed sole second spot with 18 points. If they lose, they remain on 16 points, which means SRH can overtake them by winning against PBKS. They are su...