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RBI bars Kotak Mahindra Bank from onboarding new customers via online, issuing fresh credit cards
Mumbai: The RBI Wednesday barred Kotak Mahindra Bank from onboarding new customers through its online and mobile banking channels and issuing fresh credit cards with immediate effect after the regulator found serious deficiencies in the lender's IT risk management. These actions, the RBI said, are necessitated based on significant concerns...
Read moreUnion minister Nitin Gadkari faints while speaking at campaign rally
Yavatmal (Maharashtra): Union minister Nitin Gadkari Wednesday fainted while speaking at an election rally in eastern Maharashtra's Yavatmal district. The BJP leader was campaigning at Pusad which comes under the Yavatmal-Washim Lok Sabha constituency. As he suffered a fainting fit, the security personnel accompanying him carried him off-stage. The minister, however, recovered after a few minutes and completed his speech. "Felt uneasy due to heat at a rally at Pusad, Maharashtra....
Read moreCross-verification of votes: SC reserves verdict after noting EC’s answers to queries
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday reserved its verdict on a batch of pleas seeking complete cross-verification of votes cast using EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) after taking note of answers to queries it had raised before the Election Commission. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta sought answers from an official of the poll panel to five questions related to the functioning of the Electronic...
Read moreElectoral bonds: Plea in SC seeks SIT probe into alleged quid pro quo between parties, corporates
New Delhi: A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored probe by an special investigation team (SIT) into the alleged instances of "apparent quid pro quo" between political parties, corporates and officials of investigating agencies in donations via electoral bonds. A five-judge constitution bench of the apex court had February 15 scrapped the Centre's electoral bonds scheme of anonymous political funding. Following a Supreme Court directive, the...
Read moreCongress distances itself from Sam Pitroda’s inheritance tax comment
New Delhi: Following remarks by Indian Overseas Congress (IOC) Chairman Sam Pitroda on inheritance tax in America, the grand old party has distanced itself saying that it is not always the case that Pitroda's views reflect the position of the Congress and many times his views are not those of the party. According to Pitroda, a 55 per cent inheritance tax is levied in America and the government takes 55 per...
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Pitroda’s comments: Congress cites BJP leaders’ remarks to claim Modi govt favoured inheritance tax
New Delhi: Amid a row over Congress leader Sam Pitroda's remarks advocating inheritance tax, the party Wednesday asserted that it has no plans whatsoever to introduce it and cited some BJP leaders' past remarks to allege that it was the Modi government which wanted to impose it. Pitroda, the president of the Indian Overseas Congress (IOC), talked...
BJP Minority Morcha leader Usman Ghani criticises PM’s remarks, expelled from party
Jaipur: Bikaner BJP Minority Morcha district president Usman Ghani, who expressed displeasure with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent remarks in Rajasthan, was Wednesday expelled from the party for "tarnishing" its image. Ghani, while talking to a news channel recently in New Delhi, had said that the BJP was going to lose three-four Lok Sabha seats out of...
Indian team to have preparatory camp in Bhubaneswar ahead of FIFA World Cup Qualifiers matches
New Delhi/ Bhubaneswar: The Indian football team will have a four-week preparatory camp in Bhubaneswar starting May 10, ahead of its crucial second-round FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifiers matches against Kuwait and Qatar. The final squad will move to Kolkata June 2 ahead of the Blue Tigers clash against Kuwait at Salt Lake Stadium June 6. "India...
Boeing posts a $355 million loss as the plane maker tries to dig out from under its latest crisis
Arlington (USA): Boeing said Wednesday that it lost $355 million on falling revenue in the first quarter, another sign of the crisis gripping the aircraft manufacturer as it faces increasing scrutiny over the safety of its planes and accusations of shoddy work from a growing number of whistleblowers. Boeing's CEO said the company is in “a tough...
Campaigning ends for phase 2 of Lok Sabha polls in 89 seats
New Delhi: The curtains came down Wednesday evening on a high-voltage campaigning for the second phase of Lok Sabha polls in 89 seats across 13 states April 26. Staggered over seven stages, the first phase of the elections held last Friday for 102 seats across 21 states and Union territories saw a voter turnout of around 65.5...
Iranian President Raisi inaugurates $514 million hydropower project in Sri Lanka
Colombo: Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi Wednesday inaugurated a $514 million hydropower project in the southeastern region of Sri Lanka which was partly funded by Tehran and was long-delayed due to international sanctions on the oil-rich nation. This was the first visit by an Iranian president to Sri Lanka since an April 2008 visit by its then-president Mahmoud...
Essence of Chandrayaan-3 extends beyond mere call to embrace space studies: ISRO chief Somanath
Kolkata: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman S Somanath has said the essence of Chandrayaan-3 extends beyond a mere call to embrace space studies; it urges participation in the broader realms of engineering and science, fostering a dynamic scientific community. Talking to the PTI here Tuesday, Somanath highlighted the importance of cultivating a scientific pool that not...
‘At least come for my funeral…,’ Congress chief Kharge’s emotional pitch at rally on home turf
Kalaburagi (Karnataka): Seeking to strike an emotional chord with the people of his home district of Kalaburagi, Congress President M Mallikarjun Kharge Wednesday appealed to them to at least attend his funeral if they thought he worked for them even though they do not wish to vote for the party candidate here in the coming Lok Sabha...
Deve Gowda slams Rahul Gandhi over wealth redistribution promise
Bengaluru: Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda Wednesday slammed Rahul Gandhi's "wealth redistribution promise", stating that only someone with no practical knowledge can speak like that. The 90-year-old JD(S) supremo ridiculed the Congress manifesto claiming that only a party that is sure of never coming to power can make as many promises. “The Congress has promised so...
‘Congress’ loot… zindagi ke baad bhi’, says Modi as Pitroda’s inheritance tax remarks fuel fresh attack, opposition party distances itself
Ambikapur/ New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday seized on Congress leader Sam Pitroda's remarks on inheritance tax to step up the ruling BJP's blistering attack on the issue of "wealth redistribution", saying "zindagi ke saath bhi, zindagi ke baad bhi" is the opposition party's mantra to "loot" people. In his poll rallies, Modi framed Pitroda's comments...
