Friday, May 17, 2024

India

Workplace harassment data reveals corporate sector’s patchy compliance with POSH Act: Report

A decade after India's groundbreaking Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act mandated strict measures to prevent and address workplace sexual harassment, a new analysis of compliance data raises...

66.95% voter turnout in first four phases, says Election Commission

The Election Commission on Thursday released cumulative voter turnout data for the first four phases of the General Elections 2024.

Sunil Chhetri announces retirement from international football, last match on June 6 against Kuwait

Indian men’s football team captain Sunil Chhetri on Thursday announced that he will retire from international football after...

India blocks over 1,000 Skype accounts used for ‘digital arrests’ by cyber fraudsters

India's anti-cyber fraud agency, the Indian Cyber Coordination Centre (I4C), has blocked over 1,000 Skype accounts linked to...

SC quashes FIR against Muslim academics over alleged ‘Hinduphobic’ book in Indore college library

The Supreme Court on Tuesday quashed a case registered against staff and faculties of a government-run college in Indore for...

Cannot disclose reasons for MediaOne TV ban due to national security: Union govt

The Union government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it cannot disclose the reasons behind its ban on the Malayalam news channel MediaOne TV as it can have “unimaginable and far-reaching” consequences on national security.

Rejecting new data law, VPN provider removes servers in India

With a recent data law introduced in India requiring all Virtual private networks (VPN) providers to store user information for at least five years, ExpressVPN has decided to remove...
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Kashmir editor summoned for ‘seditious’ article in magazine published when he was 12

Yasraj Sharma, the interim editor of ”The Kashmir Walla” has been summoned by the Jammu and Kashmir Police counter-intelligence wing for questioning him about an article published in the online magazine in 2011.

Bank manager from Rajasthan shot dead in Kashmir’s Kulgam

A bank manager from Rajasthan was shot dead on Thursday by suspected militants in Kashmir’s Kulgam, days after a woman teacher was killed outside a school. The militants fired at...
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“Dy CM Manish Sisodia arrest next,” says Arvind Kejriwal, citing “reliable sources”

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was being framed and was likely to be the next Delhi minister to be arrested after Satyendar Jain, said Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

“No sign of promised recovery”: Opp as India’s GDP growth slows for third straight quarter

India’s economic growth slowed to the lowest in a year in the first three months of 2022.
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Journalist Muhammed Zubair booked for calling Hindutva leaders ‘hatemongers’

An FIR against Alt News co-founder Muhammed Zubair has been filed in Khairabad police station in Uttar Pradesh for his tweet calling militant Hindutva leaders - Yati Narasinghanand, Mahant Bajrang Muni and Anand Swaroop, "hatemongers."

ED attaches Popular Front of India’ bank accounts in money laundering case

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached at least 33 bank accounts of Popular Front of India (PFI) and Rehab India Foundation as part of an anti-money laundering investigation against them, ED officials said on Wednesday.
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Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi summoned by ED in money laundering case

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, son and former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi summoned by Enforcement Directorate in money laundering case.

UP: Law professor sent on leave for offering namaz on campus

A professor was sent on compulsory leave on Tuesday by college authorities for offering namaz on campus in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh. A video of associate professor Dr Shah Raziq...
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BJP got nearly 75% of donations to political parties in 2020-2021: Data

The governing Bharatiya Janata Party got nearly 75% of all large donations made by companies and individuals to national political parties in the financial year 2020-2021, the Election Commission said.

“The voice of love is gone”: Tributes pour in for singer KK

Eminent singer KK's sudden demise has left his fans, friends and colleagues in the music industry aghast.
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