NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Government has begun the exercise to decide on the process for sale of its stake in IDBI Bank and is looking to speed up the process months after rejecting bids that were below the reserve price.Two high-powered meetings of officials took place on Monday, govt officials said, with focus on two qualified bidders-Prem…
Police are investigating how a kangaroo with a joey in its pouch was shot with an arrow on the New South Wales Central Tablelands near Lithgow. Wallerawang community members are looking for the injured animal after it was spotted with an arrow piercing its back at Lake Wallace on Saturday, July 4. Volunteer and macropod…
Thailand will allow 30-day visa-exempted entries by visitors from India after a proposal to scrap visa-free entry led arrivals from the country to drop in a blow to the vital tourism industry.An initial proposal, which had not come into effect despite being approved by the cabinet in May, had caused confusion for Indian travellers and…
As we tick closer and closer to Victoria’s state election in November, a flurry of new parties has been racing to join the contest, planning to take advantage of an archaic aspect of the electoral system that has been abolished in every other state. The applications of a dozen aspiring political parties are currently being…
File photo: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla NEW DELHI: The 20 rebel TMC MPs, whose merger with Nationalist Citizens Party of India is yet to get Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla‘s recognition, are likely to hold their parliamentary party meeting here under the aegis of their new organisation Sunday, with its senior member Sudip Bandyopadhyay…
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate has informed Supreme Court that NBFC entities of Reliance ADAG – Reliance Home Finance Ltd and Reliance Commercial Finance Ltd – had siphoned off parts of Rs 15,500 crore, they had raised from banks, through “an intricate network of 53 shell and group entities under control of R-ADAG”.ED sources said…
NEW DELHI: Terming it a “travesty of justice” for putting on the dock a man and 16 other members of his family for 26 years for alleged dowry death of his wife in an accidental fire, SC has appealed the courts not to treat defence evidence with “distrust, suspicion or scepticism” and to give equal…
France’s Kylian Mbappe (10) in after the World Cup semifinal match between France and Spain in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo) Kylian Mbappe did not hide behind excuses. He looked at what happened in Arlington on Tuesday night and called it exactly what it was, a failure in every area of the game.France’s 2-0 defeat to…
A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton nicknamed “Gus” has become the most valuable dinosaur fossil bought at auction. The fossil, discovered on a South Dakota cattle ranch in 2021, sold for $US50.1 million ($71.8m) after a 10-minute battle between seven bidders at Sotheby’s, New York. “Gus” is one of the world’s most complete T-rex skeletons, with 183…
NEW DELHI: Samay Raina, the standup comedian who triggered national outrage and drew the Supreme Court’s ire by mocking people with disabilities, has earned the apex court’s anger again: this time for not holding a show to highlight achievements of people with disabilities that he promised to conduct to make up for his original sin.The…