The Supreme Court held an extraordinary hearing on Saturday after a former employee of the apex court accused Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi of sexual harassment and persecution. A three-judge bench headed by Justice Gogoi was constituted after a sworn affidavit by the woman copies of which were sent to the residences of 22 apex court judges became public ...

Uttarakhand Power Corporation’s JE has been arrested by the Vigilance team for taking a bribe of 20 thousand rupees for the electricity connection of a flour mill. Hemendra,son of Tulsiram  resident of village Gopipura Mod, Chandpur, complained about this on April 15 in the Doon Vigilance Office. Hemendra said in the complaint that in the past, he has set up ...

Russia on Friday once more dismissed the Mueller report, saying it failed to present clear evidence of any meddling by Moscow in the 2016 US election and called its impact on relations regrettable. “As a whole the report as before does not present any reasonable proof at all that Russia allegedly meddled in the electoral process in the US,” Kremlin ...

A nodal officer of the Election Commission in-charge of EVMs and VVPATs posted at Krishnagar under Ranaghat parliamentary constituency in Nadia district, is missing for over 24 hours, an official said Friday. Arnab Roy(30) left his official quarters here for his poll duty at Bipradas Choudhury Polytechnic College Thursday morning but was not spotted since afternoon, a senior Nadia police ...

Malegaon blast accused and BJP’s Bhopal Lok Sabha seat candidate Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur has said former Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare died during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks as she “cursed” him for torturing her. Addressing BJP workers here Thursday night, Pragya also claimed Karkare had made up his mind not to release her. “Hemant Karkare was called by ...

On the issue related to retired teacher’s GPF and pension payments, the government suspended Suman Agrawal, Deputy Education Officer posted in Haridwar. Suman is stationed in Haridwar block of Haridwar. On Thursday evening, Education Secretary R Meenakshi Sundaram ordered this. Suman will be attached to the DEO-Basic Office of Haridwar in the suspension period. This is the first major disciplinary ...

Honda Cars India has announced that the company is voluntarily recalling 3,669 units of vehicle in India, from 2003 to 2006, the company will replace Takata’s Airbags in Honda Accord. This recollection is part of the recall campaign being run by Honda at global level for cautiousness, which is to overcome the problems in Takata Airbags’s. Honda India will do ...

Equity benchmark Sensex retreated from its lifetime high to close 135 points lower Thursday as investors booked profits at higher levels amid weak global cues. After rising to an intra-day record of 39,487.45 points, the 30-share index turned negative to settle 135.36 points, or 0.34 per cent, lower at 39,140.28. The broader NSE Nifty slipped 34.35 points, or 0.29 per ...

About 9.2 per cent of the over 86 lakh electorate in Bihar exercised their franchise in the first two hours of polling on Thursday, with reports of EVM malfunctioning and poll boycott in some booths. Altogether 86.01 lakh persons are eligible to vote to decide the fate of 68 candidates in the second phase of polling in five Lok Sabha ...

Tech giants Google and Apple have removed TikTok from their app stores after the Supreme Court refused to stay Madras High Court order asking the Centre to prohibit the download of the Chinese social media platform. A search for video sharing platform TikTok on Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store did not show the app. The government, on Monday, ...