- Monday, May 05, 2025
A DAY after a Muslim body challenged the law criminalising instant triple talaq in the Supreme Court, Uttar Pradesh minister Chetan Chauhan on Tuesday said any effort to save the malpractice, which became a "custom" because of slackness of previous governments, will prove futile. "Several Muslim countries have put a…
FORMER finance minister P Chidambaram, who spent 2 months in custody of enforcement agencies and jail, was on Tuesday granted bail by the Supreme Court in the INX media corruption case filed by the CBI but he can't walk free as he is currently under the ED's custody in a…
The railways will implement a Rs 180 billion project to operate trains at a speed of 160 kmph on the busy Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Kolkata routes by upgrading infrastructure, Indian Railway Board Chairman V K Yadav said on Tuesday. Once the project begins, it will take at least four years to…
TRASHING the BJP claim of good governance in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday said calling the state “Ramrajya” was unfair to Lord Ram. “Ram ko dhoka hai” (It's cheating Ram),” Yadav said while accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party in the state of having taken lessons from…
INDIA'S top vegetable oil trade body on Monday (21) asked its members to stop buying palm oil from Malaysia, an unprecedented call aimed at helping New Delhi punish the country for criticising India over its policy towards Kashmir. The directive by the Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEAI) shows how…
MALAYSIAN prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Tuesday (22) he would not retract his criticism of New Delhi's actions in Kashmir despite Indian traders calling for an unprecedented boycott of Malaysian palm oil. The impasse could exacerbate what Mahathir described as a trade war between the world's second-biggest producer and…
INDIA’S IT services giant Infosys on Tuesday (22) plummeted 16 per cent on concerns over a whistleblower complaint which alleges that two of the company's top executives were indulging in unethical practices to increase short-term revenue and profits. The scrip plunged 15.94 per cent to Rs 645.35 on the Bombay…
THE Indian government on Monday (21) announced that the Siachen area, the world's highest battlefield, is now open to tourists. Country’s defence minister Rajnath Singh said the government has decided to open the entire area from Siachen base camp to Kumar Post for tourism purposes. The step has been taken…
INDIA and Pakistan are set to sign an agreement on Indian pilgrims visiting a Sikh shrine in Pakistan, rare cooperation between the neighbours. The pact will introduce visa-free access from India to the Pakistani town of Kartarpur, home to a temple that marks the site where the founder of Sikhism,…
FORMER Congress Rajya Sabha member from Karnataka K C Ramamurthy joined the BJP on Tuesday in the presence of the party's general secretaries Bhupender Yadav and Arun Singh. Ramamurthy had resigned as a member of the Rajya Sabha on October 16. His resignation was accepted by House Chairman M Venkaiah…
