Bhupendra Singh ChundawatAHMEDABAD: The Anti-Corruption Bureau in Gujarat arrested suspended IAS officer Pradeep Sharma him in a ten year old graft case soon after he walked out of the Sabarmati Central Jail on Friday. Sharma was granted bail on Thursday by the Gujarat High Court in a money laundering case being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate. Sharma was … Read more
KOLKATA: Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani today applauded the low-cost jute based sanitary napkin developed by Indian Jute Industries Research Association (IJIRA) here and asked the body to help promote women entrepreneurship. ”The jute-based sanitary napkins are natural and do not have many chemical interventions compared to normal napkins available. I want IJIRA to make … Read more
Mumbai: Farooq Takla, a close aide of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, had acted as a mediator between two warring gutkha barons – Rasiklal Dhariwal and JM Joshi – and helped them settle a dispute. According to reports, Farooq Takla, who acted as a mediator between the two gutkha barons on behalf of Dawood Ibrahim, was … Read more
Jaipur: In a significant development, the Rajasthan State Assembly on Friday cleared an amendment bill for death penalty for the culprits in the rape cases involving girls below 12 years of age. With this Rajasthan has become the second state after Madhya Pradesh to pass the bill. The Rajasthan government had on Tuesday tabled the … Read more
Jabalpur: Another instance of statue vandalism or defacing has cropped up. This time from Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur. A white statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was smeared with red colour on Friday morning. Taking note of the offence, local administration and police have initiated the preliminary investigation. Several incidents of statue vandalism has been reported … Read more
New Delhi: Indian shooter Anjum Moudgil clinched a silver medal in the women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions event at the ongoing ISSF World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico. It was Anjum’s first World Cup medal as she battled windy conditions to shoot 454.2 in the 45-shot final to finish behind former junior world champion China’s Ruijiao Pei … Read more
Sydney: The death toll from an earthquake that hit Papua New Guinea last month has topped 100 with thousands injured, Prime Minister Peter O’Neill said today, warning it will take years for the region to recover. The Pacific nation’s mountainous interior was struck by a 7.5-magnitude tremor on February 26, triggering landslides that blocked roads, … Read more
