Recent Views 20 File photo: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann NEW DELHI: A day before the Supreme Court is scheduled to take up a plea for restraining its probe into allegations against OSD to Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, CBI was learnt to be in possession of evidence of “compromised transfers” of at least 21 senior…
Recent Views 24 Elon Musk brings Ambani into the Starlink India delay NEW DELHI: The terrestrial war over providing satellite communication (satcom) services heated up several notches Thursday, with Elon Musk asking on X, “Is Ambani the real boss of India”, hours after govt denied his charge that “certain oligarchs” were blocking Starlink’s entry to…
Recent Views 22 A view of the 57th Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council Meeting, chaired by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in New Delhi on Thursday NEW DELHI: Nine years after the biggest indirect reform in the country, GST Council on Friday decided on a massive procedural overhaul that will rework the way businesses…
Recent Views 26 NEW DELHI: In a move that could substantially reduce patient bills, govt has decided to cap trade margins at 30% of MRP for all cancer drugs, covering essential, non-scheduled, branded and generic medicines, as well as domestic and patented drugs.This could slash MRPs of life-saving cancer drugs by 20-70%, and result in…
Recent Views 32 File photo: Polling officials check Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and other polling materials at a distribution centre (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: Votes for five Assembly constituencies and one Lok Sabha seat that went to bypolls recently will be counted on Friday, with the results expected to be declared through the day.The…
Recent Views 20 A fence that had been treated as a property boundary since 1967 has been upheld as the dividing line between two Arkansas properties, after a dispute over trees and fencing reached the state Court of Appeals. The ruling in Floyd v. Bowlin-Lemon, reported by Justia, Leagle and Case Law Wire, affirmed the…
Recent Views 24 SRINAGAR: Jammu & Kashmir High Court ordered Thursday revival of Kashmir student’s passport so that she can complete her MBBS in Iran.The authorities had impounded Ibra Khan’s passport based on a CID adverse report about an FIR against her father in 1997, although she was born in 2005. The report cited “aspersions”…
Recent Views 24 US targets 2 Mumbai companies, 5 Indians in Iran petroleum sanctions (representative image) The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on two Mumbai-based companies and five Indian nationals over their alleged involvement in the trade of petroleum products from Iran, as Washington stepped up its economic pressure on Tehran.The US department of…
Recent Views 18 Federal executive created fake program, diverted $145M; FBI found 298 gold bars in $193.6M fraud (Image Credit: USAO EDVA) A former senior federal employee with a top-secret security clearance has pleaded guilty to defrauding the US government of approximately $193.6 million, allegedly using fabricated government authorities to obtain money for himself. According…
Recent Views 30 Microsoft suspended from US Green Card sponsorship programme as JD Vance alleges H-1B abuse. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File) The US government has suspended Microsoft from the Permanent Labor Certification Program (PERM), the process most employers must clear before sponsoring a foreign worker for a Green Card. Vice President JD Vance and Labor…
