Watch: Shattered dreams: Families of U.S. deportees recount horror and stressful days | Video Credit: PTI A total of 104 illegal Indian immigrants were deported from the US. Families say they had invested large sums of money in the hope of securing a better future abroad. But all that is left now are shattered dreams. The […]
The Supreme Court on Friday (February 7, 2025) asked whether Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi referred 10 Bills re-passed by the State Legislature to the President to avoid having to give his consent to them. A Bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan questioned Attorney-General of India (AG) R. Venkataramani if the Governor had […]
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday (February 7, 2025) stoutly defended the Kerala Budget 2025-26 as “an illuminating roadmap thoughtfully and empathetically calibrated to give a new impetus to the State’s aspirations.” He said the Budget sought to circumvent the Central government’s financial constraints imposed on the State to ensure sustainable development, social welfare, […]
The RBI on Friday (February 7, 2025) said non-bank brokers registered with market-regulator Sebi can directly access NDS-OM, an electronic trading platform for secondary market transactions in government securities, on behalf of their clients. Access to Negotiated Dealing System – Order Matching (NDS-OM), at present is available to regulated entities and to the clients of […]
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached movable properties valued at ₹25.86 crore in a case of cattle smuggling from India to Bangladesh, allegedly involving a former Border Security Force (BSF) commandant and a former district president of Trinamool Congress (TMC) in Birbhum. The action has been taken under the provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act. […]
An alleged sexual assault on a nine-year-old girl studying in a private CBSE school near Manapparai in Tiruchi district sparked protests in the late hours on Thursday (February 6, 2025) with a group of people vandalising a nearby matriculation school belonging to the same management and staging a road roko on the Tiruchi – Dindigul […]
Kerala’s Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan on Friday (February 7, 2025) termed the Kerala Budget 2025-26 a “false and cruel construct that rang resoundingly hollow and held no promise for the State” He said the Budget has “exacerbated” the cost of living crisis for working-class people by proposing an “unreasonably high” 50% increase in […]
Watch: Communal tensions rise at Thiruparankundram – what’s behind the conflict? Communal tension has been building up at Thiruparankundram, the first of the six abodes of Lord Muruga or Karthikeya. The holy hill in Madurai, has largely stood as a symbol of communal harmony. Now it is at the centre of a heated debate that […]
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday (February 7, 2025) raised concerns over the surge in new voters, particularly between the 2024 Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections in Maharashtra, highlighting that 39 lakh new voters were added in just five months after the Lok Sabha polls. In a joint press conference […]
The Narcotics Control Bureau has exposed a drug syndicate and seized various banned substances worth about ₹200 crore from Navi Mumbai after arresting four persons, an official said on Friday (February 7, 2025). According to an official from the NCB’s Mumbai zonal unit, a group of people based abroad are operating the syndicate and some […]
