NEW DELHI: Ladakh chief secretary Ashish Kundra on Friday clarified on X that the Feb 4 discussions of the high power committee (HPC) on Ladakh — comprising representatives of the home ministry and Ladakh bodies like Apex Body Leh (ABL) and Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) — were wholesome and constructive, and that the govt is…
NEW DELHI: The ED has attached several hotels, resorts and land worth over Rs 200 crore in Andaman and Nicobar in a money laundering case, probing allegations of misappropriation of over Rs 500 crore in Andaman & Nicobar State Cooperative Bank.Former Congress MP Kuldeep Rai Sharma, who was arrested earlier and whose bail plea was…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday frowned on Himachal Pradesh HC’s repeated interference in the state govt’s decisions and said it appeared that the high court was not allowing the elected govt to function. SC warned that it would view such interference seriously in future.Despite these oral remarks, a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant…
NEW DELHI: Can a married man in a live-in relationship be prosecuted for dowry harassment on the complaint of a woman with whom he was in an extra-marital affair, even though the law specifies that only a wife can make such a complaint against her husband and his relatives?A Supreme Court bench of Justices Sanjay…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday rejected the criticism over the recent free trade agreements, asserting that few countries were willing to sign FTAs during the UPA dispensation when India was marred by scams and counted among ‘Fragile Five’ economies, while it is now capable of competing with the world.Addressing the ET NOW…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Friday appointed ex-IPS officer N K Mishra and ex-IRS officer Pratap Singh as special observers for West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, respectively, tasked with overseeing the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral roll as well as the preparedness and conduct of impending assembly poll in the two states.Polls…
NEW DELHI: India is in a “superb position” in a highly fragmented geopolitical world, as the fastest-growing economy with the scale, stability and technological ambition to help shape the next global order, Martin Sorrell, chairman of S4 Capital said on Friday.“So, India is in the box seat for two reasons. In that fragmented world, picking…
JAMMU: Police arrested two cross-border drug peddlers associated with a Pakistan-based drone-dropped narcotics module in J&K’s Kathua district and seized about 150g of heroin from them. Kathua Police registered a case and booked the duo under the NDPS Act.Police received information about an episode of drone-dropping along the J&K-Punjab border near Kathua’s Nagri area and…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday held that telecom companies cannot claim ownership over spectrum allocated to them by govt and the natural resource cannot be subject to insolvency and liquidation process of a bankrupt telecom company.A bench of Justices P S Narasimha and A S Chandurkar rejected the plea of banks, which submitted that…
JAMMU: In the J&K assembly, BJP members miss no opportunity to corner the Omar Abdullah govt over a host of issues. Outside the House, however, some of the party MLAs generously praised the chief minister on Friday over his budgetary allocation for the annual Amarnath Yatra.“Our CM’s move to allocate Rs 180 crore for Amarnath…
