Monday, 23 December 2024
Monday, 23 December 2024
Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Sunday said the wrestlers staging a protest here demanding the arrest of the wrestling federation chief over sexual harassment charges are facing the predicament of a defiant accused and "no arrests", and wondered whether there is a "pliant investigation" into the matter.
In a tweet, he said: "Protesting Wrestlers Predicament: A minor, 6 others traumatised, a defiant accused, a silent PMO, no arrests. A pliant investigation?"
On the other hand, WFI chief Brij Bhushan claims that the athletes' protest at Jantar Mantar is being driven by the politicians from day one. "This battle has gone beyond the athletes now as political parties have become part of it. From day one of the protest, I felt that this protest was politically motivated and not the voice of the athletes. They have been influenced by politicians."
While the protest ratio has turned into 1:100, the accused WFI chief Brij Bhushan raises Akhilesh Yadav for not siding with protesting wrestlers saying Yadav was "standing with the truth".
"... if there are 10,000 wrestlers in UP, out of them, 8,000 are from the Yadav community and they belong to the Samajwadi family, and hence know the truth," he said.
Capital markets regulator SEBI has not concluded any wrongdoing in its application to the country's top court, seeking six more months to complete a probe into allegations against Adani Group, the conglomerate run by billionaire Gautam Adani said.
The Supreme Court had on March 2 asked Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to conclude within two months its probe into allegations levelled by US short-seller Hindenburg Research against Adani Group.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday attended the live broadcast of the 100th episode of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Mann ki Baat' radio address. Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis were also present at the event. In the 100th episode of 'Mann ki Baat', PM Modi said the radio broadcast is an expression of the feelings of crores of Indians and it has ensured he is never cut-off from people.
The milestone broadcast of 'Mann Ki Baat' was an occasion for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to walk down the memory lane as he asserted that it was not merely a programme but a matter of faith and spiritual journey for him.
"Mann ki Baat has become a festival that celebrates the positivity of India and its people," he said and added he was filled with emotions at the thousands of letters he received from listeners on the occasion of its 100th episode.
Narendra Modi's 'Mann ki Baat' gets a global relevance as, The State of New York and New Jersey have issued special resolutions honouring the 100th episode of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’, underscoring that the “vital" broadcast has become an effective means of communication to “promote good governance and deepen democracy.”
After financial crime-fighting agency ED searched Byju's premises, the education platform's CEO Byju Raveendran wrote to employees saying the company brought more FDI to India than any other startup and that the firm fully complies with all applicable foreign exchange laws.
India's most valuable startup, Byju's was once valued at USD 22 billion and has attracted global investors such as General Atlantic, BlackRock and Sequoia Capital.
"As we are funded by 70+ impact investors who have satisfactorily done due diligence on our operations, including all FEMA (Foreign Exchange Management Act) compliance, we are confident that the authorities will also come to the same conclusion," Raveendran said in the memo sent late on Saturday, which was seen by PTI.
Eleven people died after inhaling toxic gas in the city's thickly-populated Giaspura area on Sunday, police said.
Four more people, who were taken ill, were undergoing treatment at a hospital, they said.
The source of the leakage and the type of the gas are yet to be ascertained, they added.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said the incident was very painful and added that all possible help is being provided.
"The incident of gas leak in Giaspura area of Ludhiana is very painful. Teams of police, district administration and NDRF are present on the spot. Every possible help is being provided..," Mann said in a tweet in Punjabi.
Aviation regulator DGCA has issued a show cause notice to Air India CEO Campbell Wilson for the airline's lapses in reporting about the incident of a pilot allowing a female friend inside the cockpit during a Dubai-Delhi flight on February 27, according to a senior official.
A show cause notice has also been issued to the airline's Head of Safety, Security and Quality Functions Henry Donohoe. A cabin crew member of the flight had filed a complaint with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) about the pilot allowing a female friend into the cockpit. The incident happened on February 27.
India brought home another batch of 229 people on Sunday under its mission to evacuate stranded Indians from violence-hit Sudan.
The fresh batch of evacuees arrived in Bengaluru, a day after 365 people returned from the African country to Delhi.
"#OperationKaveri One more flight brings back 229 passengers to Bengaluru," External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar wrote on Twitter.
On arrival to homeland Sudan trapped victim Deepak Agnihotri shares his nightmare experience, "We were in touch with the Indian embassy and when we got clearance to move, we drove to Port Sudan," said the 26-year-old, a native of Himachal Pradesh's Hamirpur who reached India on Thursday.
India and Russia will explore the possibility of accepting RuPay and Mir cards in each other's country for hassle-free payments amid sanctions imposed by the West on Moscow.
In the recent high level Internal Governmental Commission meeting on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation (IRIGC-TEC), it was discussed and agreed to explore the opportunity of allowing acceptance of these cards, sources said.
Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park (KNP), which has seen the death of two cheetahs in less than a month, has "inadequate space" for these felines brought from Africa, a former official of the Wildlife Institute of India has claimed.
The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), which is overseeing the ambitious cheetah reintroduction project in the country, has called a meeting in New Delhi on Monday in the wake of the death of two cheetahs out of the 20 felines translocated to KNP from Namibia and South Africa over the last eight months, an official said.
The toll in the collapse of a two-storey building in Bhiwandi in Maharashtra's Thane district reached six on Sunday after the body of a 40-year-old man was recovered from the debris, officials said. The owner of the ill-fated building in Wardhaman Compound in Valpada in Mankoli has been detained, officials added.
Several people are still feared trapped and work of clearing the debris as part of the search and rescue operation helmed by the National Disaster Response Force, the State Disaster Response Force, fire brigade and civic teams continued, Thane Municipal Corporation regional disaster management cell chief Avinash Sawant said.
