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The External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that the two Indians hadn’t reached out to the Indian missions in the United States for assistance. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Friday said that Indian students in the United States should comply with American laws. His statement comes after the detention of a postdoctoral […]

Catch the full episode of Aaj Ki Baat with Rajat Sharma on March 21, 2025. Key highlights: Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna orders a probe against Delhi HC Judge Yashwant Varma after a huge cash pile was found at his residence. Amit Shah takes a jab at Rahul Gandhi over the language row. Hello and welcome […]

The control room received a call about a blaze at Justice Varma’s Lutyens Delhi residence at 11.35 pm on March 14 and two fire tenders were immediately rushed to the spot Delhi Fire Services Chief Atul Garg on Friday said that firefighters found no cash during their operation to douse flames at the residence of […]

For 57-year-old Somnath Chakraborty, employee of a private sector company in Kolkata, the promise of annual returns of more than 12 per cent enticed him to invest nearly Rs 2 lakh in a chit fund scheme floated by the Rose Valley Group in 2010. Like him, some three million small investors poured their hard-earned savings […]

Allahabad HC isn’t “a trash bin” that a judge facing allegations of misconduct is being repatriated there, the bar association said Friday while protesting the SC’s decision to transfer Justice Varma back to his parent court in the wake of unaccounted cash row. “This decision of SC collegium raises a serious question,” the bar association […]

MUMBAI: The jurisdiction of the Maintenance and Welfare of Senior Citizen Tribunal cannot be invoked by one senior citizen to recover possession of premises from another, Bombay HC ruled recently. It set aside a 2023 tribunal order directing one senior citizen to hand over the premises to another, observing that the elder sister was not […]

MUMBAI: Bombay HC has refused to direct a potency test on a man eight years after his marriage, observing that advancing age would affect the test. It quashed a family court order that had allowed his wife’s plea.“…allowing medical exam after a period of eight years to ascertain whether the husband was impotent in 2017 […]

A total of 388 Indian nationals have been deported from the US since January 2025, the government informed Parliament on Friday. Of these, 333 were deported directly from the US on three separate military flights in February. Also, the US deported 55 Indian nationals through Panama in commercial flights, Minister of State for External Affairs […]

Radical preacher Amritpal Singh’s seven associates were on Friday (March 21, 2025) produced before a court here in connection with the attack on the Ajnala police station in 2023 and remanded to police custody till March 25. The seven were released from the Dibrugarh Central Jail in Assam and re-arrested in another case by the […]

Stand-up comedian Samay Raina on Thursday (March 20, 2024) said he was rescheduling his India Tour, days after reports surfaced that the comic’s shows in Delhi, set to be held on March 21 and March 23, were cancelled. “Hello guys, I’m rescheduling my India Tour. You will get the refunds shortly, see you soon,” Raina […]

Three members of the proscribed Kangleipak Communist Party (MFL) were arrested in Manipur’s Imphal West district, police said on Friday (March 21, 2025). The arrests were made from Lilong Chajing Mamang Leikai, they said. Those held were identified as Aheibam Gandhi (35), Thongam Naoba Meitei (21) and Ningthouba Momocha Singh, they said. Police said they […]

A guillotine is a parliamentary tactic used to expedite the passage of a bill without allowing further discussion. It is usually employed when the government wants to pass a bill quickly, but the opposition is delaying its progress. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla ordered a guillotine to pass the Union Budget 2025 and expedite the […]