“We need more professional regulation of our financial markets. SEBI needs a total overhaul,” the Congress says. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The Congress on Thursday (February 20, 2025) stressed the need for professional regulation of financial markets with a “total overhaul” of SEBI and called for a relentless focus on global manufacturing ecosystems across … Read more
The Supreme Court had taken suo motu cognisance of the January 27 decision of the Lokpal that High Court judges were ‘public servants’ and, thus, came within the ambit of the Lokpal Act. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Supreme Court on Thursday (February 20, 2025) stayed an order by top anti-corruption ombudsman Lokpal … Read more
A file photo of a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight. (For Representational purpose only.) | Photo Credit: AP A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight from Dhaka to Dubai with 396 passengers and 12 crew members on board made an emergency landing at Nagpur airport in Maharashtra, officials said on Thursday (February 20, 2025) The flight was diverted … Read more
TMC MP Mahua Moitra. File | Photo Credit: PTI TMC MP Mahua Moitra has moved the Supreme Court against the provision of the 2023 law over the appointments of the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and the Election Commissioners (ECs). A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh on Wednesday (February 19, 2025) deferred … Read more
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. File | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (February 19, 2025) asked the Centre to apprise it of the status of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s representation given to the Ministry of Home Affairs over Rahul Gandhi’s Indian citizenship. Also Read | Delhi HC seeks Centre’s stand … Read more
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered an alleged cheating case against former Minister for Milk and Dairy Development K.T. Rajenthra Bhalaji and two former AIADMK members following a Madras High Court directive in January this year. The case was initially registered with the Crime Branch in Virudhunagar on November 15, 2021, on a … Read more
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with spiritual leader and Parmarth Niketan President Swami Chidanand Saraswati during the ongoing ‘Maha Kumbh Mela’ festival, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. | Photo Credit: PTI Prominent political leaders, including Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, BJP MP Tejasvi Surya, Union minister Ram Mohan Naidu and Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Shinde, visited the Maha Kumbh … Read more
People look at the newly inaugurated Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) office ‘Keshava Kunj’, in New Delhi, on February 19, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday (February 19, 2025) asked volunteers to ensure that their work matched the grandeur of the organisation’s newly constructed office in New Delhi. Built … Read more
An aerial view of devotees at Sangam amid the ongoing ‘Maha Kumbh Mela’ festival, in Prayagraj, Uttar Prades. File. | Photo Credit: PTI The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday pulled up the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) for not submitting adequate information to the court, including on faecal coliform levels in the Ganga … Read more
“It will be too naive to argue that a judge of a High Court will not come within the ambit of expression “any person” in clause (f) of Section 14(1) of the Act of 2013,” the Bench observed. File | Photo Credit: PTI A Special Bench of the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on … Read more