Top of the line legal eagle, Congress leader and former Union minister Kapil Sibal wears many hats, adept as he is at multi tasking. Speaking to Sandeep Bamzai, Editor in Chief and Executive Editor Deepak Sharma of IANS TV on several contentious issues, he rejected the notion of religion being used as the basis of […]
India’s foreign exchange reserves made healthy gains of $5.69 billion during the week ended March 6. According to the RBI’s weekly statistical supplement, the overall forex reserves, which are already at a record high, increased to $487.23 billion from $481.54 billion reported for the week ended February 28. India’s forex reserves comprise foreign currency assets […]
Cricket Australia has announced this morning that the One Day International game between Australia and New Zealand scheduled on Sunday at the SCG will be played behind closed doors, for television broadcast only.
A Kashmiri rights activist at United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Wednesday flayed Pakistan for committing grave human rights violations with its sponsorship of cross-border terrorism. Junaid Qureshi, the son of Kashmiri separatist and 1971 Indian Airlines hijacker Hashim Qureshi, in a general debate at the 43rd session of the UNHRC in Geneva, described […]
Stepping up border control measures with Covid-19 cases on the rise, India on Wednesday cancelled all visas, except for a few official categories, till April 15. Even outgoing travel is being cautioned against and a minimum of 14 days’ quarantine will be mandatory. An official statement said all existing visas, except diplomatic, official, UN/international organisations, […]
A vigilance probe has been recommended against two IPS officers of UP cadre — Himanshu Kumar and Ajay Pal Sharma. The probe has been ordered on the basis of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) that probed the charges against five IPS officer earlier, accused of corruption by another IPS officer Vaibhav Krishna in a secret […]
As the bank merger becomes effective April 1, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to meet the chief executives of the amalgamating banks on Thursday to review the preparedness for the merger. The Union cabinet already approved consolidation of 10 public sector banks into four, earlier in the month. The meeting would deal also on […]
After the resignation of Jyotiraditya Scindia, the Madhya Pradesh government of the Congress is facing its worst crisis as 17 of party MLAs are still untraceable. But after the Madhya Pradesh fiasco, Rajasthan could be the next state where the government is surviving on a razor thin majority as Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and deputy […]
After Jyotiraditya Scindia quit the Congress, resignations from his Congress MLAs started pouring in. At least 19 Congress MLAs close to Scindia have submited their resignations to the Speaker N.P. Prajapati. They have resigned from the primary membership of the Congress. Sources said shortly after Scindia resigned, his loyalists also started sending their resignations. So […]
By Mason P Arora With double celebrations on the card this month for heartthrob of millions-TIGER SHROFF. Mason P Arora conducts an exclusive telephonic interview with him for Indus Age. Find about the double celebrations this month in his life, in this interview below- MPA: Hi Tiger, congratulations on double celebrations in this month […]