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NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police are preparing to appeal against the Delhi high court’s judgment quashing EOW’s case against news portal NewsClick and its promoter Prabir Purkayastha.EOW’s case was the basis for ED’s probe into money laundering allegations against the portal. While quashing the FIR, Justice Neena…

In Haryana, if a family member is accused of murdering a govt servant, then he/she or their family members are not entitled to any compassionate financial benefit till they are cleared of the criminal case, but they are eligible for compassionate employment in lieu of the deceased employee.Taking exception to this conflict, a bench of…

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday said that a long-standing employee cannot be dismissed from service for indiscipline, insubordination or disobedience and such a penalty must be reserved for cases of corruption, moral turpitude or mala fide actions causing loss to the employer.A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and N K Singh said it was…

NEW DELHI: Heed investor feedback and focus on easing the compliance burden as tax benefits and free land alone are not sufficient to attract investment. This was the strong message from PM Narendra Modi to states during the governing council meeting of Niti Aayog on Thursday as he sought to position India as an attractive…

NEW DELHI: Three merchant ships with Indian crew members have come under attack from the US Navy off the Oman coast in the last four days, resulting in the death of three Indians, said govt, which lodged a strong protest with US and asserted attacks should stop. The number of Indian seafarers killed has increased…

FIFA World Cup 2026 (Image Via Getty) The 2026 FIFA World Cup officially began on June 11 at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, and one of the biggest talking points of the night was the opening ceremony performance by Shakira and Burna Boy. The two global music stars performed “Dai Dai,” the tournament’s official song,…

FILE – Representative Image. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, file) Sam Altman‘s OpenAI has banned two clusters of ChatGPT accounts that it says are operating from China. In a blog post, the company said that these ChatGPT accounts used its models for covert influence campaigns targeting US tech and policy debates, including one called “Data Center Bandwagon,”…

JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir govt has extended the deadline for central assistance schemes providing one-time financial support to families displaced from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in 1947, those displaced from Chhamb sector during the 1965 and 1971 wars, and West Pakistani Refugees (WPRs).The extensions were approved by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and notified by…

Britain’s PM Keir Starmer (AP) LONDON: British Indian Tory peer Lord Ranger has challenged the revocation of his CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the high court here. It is the first time anyone has ever taken the UK govt to court over their chivalric honour being revoked.The multi-millionaire businessman, founder…

RSS cheif Mohan Bhagwat (right) LUCKNOW: A window pane of the Shatabdi Express (12003) was damaged after a stone struck the train near Firozabad while RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat was traveling from Kanpur to Delhi.The incident took place near the Firozabad outer area around 8 pm, where the stone hit Coach E1, in which Bhagwat…