Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Bongaon Municipality’s former chairman Shankar Adhya in the early hours of Saturday in connection with the alleged ration scam in West Bengal, officials said. Adhya, a TMC leader in the North 24 Parganas district, was arrested from his residence in Simultola in Bongaon after searches were conducted by the…
Jaipur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked BJP MLAs in Rajasthan to work towards providing the benefit of the “double-engine” government to every household. The prime minister interacted with the MLAs and party office-bearers at the party’s state headquarters here on Friday evening. The meeting lasted for nearly two-and-a-half hours. Rajasthan Urban Development Minister…
New Delhi: The Indian economy is estimated to grow by 7.3 percent in 2023-24 fiscal against 7.2 percent a year ago, mainly due to good show by mining and quarrying, manufacturing, and certain segments of services sectors. As per the first advance estimates of national income released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) on Friday,…
Jaipur: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday stressed the need for linking databases and adopting AI-driven analytical approach for tackling emerging security challenges. Inaugurating the 58th conferences of DGPs and IGPs here, he also laid emphasis on the uniformity of structures, size and skill of counter-terror mechanisms across the country. He highlighted two important…
New Delhi: Gautam Adani once again became Asia’s richest man on Friday, according to a Bloomberg index of the world’s billionaires, a year after allegations of market manipulation hammered his conglomerate’s stock prices. Adani Group saw more than $150 billion wiped from its market value after a bombshell report by US investment research firm Hindenburg…
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had desired an early seat-sharing in the INDIA bloc so that the campaign for the Lok Sabha polls could have been launched on Gandhi Jayanti, a close aide of the JD(U) supremo claimed here on Friday. JD(U) national general secretary Sanjay Kumar Jha, who has attended INDIA bloc meetings…
Hyderabad: ISRO chief S Somanath on Friday said the PSLV XPoSat launched on January 1 is doing “very well”. Somanath was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the convocation of the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) here. He was conferred Doctor of Philosophy (Honoris Causa) by the JNTU during the convocation. “First of January,…
Mumbai: India’s forex reserves jumped by USD 2.759 billion to USD 623.2 billion in the week ended December 29, the Reserve Bank said on Friday. In the previous reporting week, the overall reserves had increased by USD 4.471 billion to USD 620.441 billion. In October 2021, the country’s forex kitty had reached an all-time high…
Chennai: The Central government has done precious little to ease Tamil Nadu’s financial burden, the state Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu claimed on Friday and accused it of following different yardsticks in devolving funds to states. For every single rupee given to the Centre, the state got back only 29 paise but the ratio was different…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea challenging an Allahabad High Court order dismissing a PIL seeking a direction to the Uttar Pradesh government to acquire the Krishna Jahmabhoomi Janmasthan at Mathura and hand it over to the Hindus for worshipping Lord Krishna. Advocate Mahek Maheshwari had filed an appeal before the…
