New Delhi: An Enforcement Directorate (ED) team reached Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence here Thursday evening, officials said, shortly after the high court refused to grant him protection from coercive action in an excise policy-linked money laundering case. They said the agency officials went to Kejriwal’s residence to serve him a summons in the case. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief had earlier skipped multiple summonses of the agency in the case. Earlier in the day, a bench of Justices Suresh Kumar Kait and Manoj Jain of the Delhi High Court refused to grant Kejriwal any protection from coercive…
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Representational ImageAt least 30 schools in the Paris region have this week received threatening messages accompanied by “shocking” footage of beheadings, the education ministry said on Thursday.The establishments — mainly secondary schools — have received “serious threats” containing “justification of and incitement to terrorism,” a representative of the education ministry told AFP.The messages came through the ENT digital platform that serves as a link between teachers, pupils and parents; internal emails; or the Pronote software used by the education ministry. Investigators were working to “identify the perpetrators”, said the ministry, adding that psychological support had been offered to children or adults…
New Delhi: A court cannot be the prosecution’s stenographer and has to apply its mind by looking at accusations in detail, the counsel for Umar Khalid said while arguing for bail to the former JNU student on Thursday. Khalid is an accused in the alleged larger conspiracy behind the 2020 northeast Delhi communal riots. He has been booked under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). The defence counsel commenced his arguments on a fresh application for the grant of regular bail to the former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student before Additional Sessions Judge Sameer Bajpai. Senior Advocate Trideep Pais…
Samsung could expand its Galaxy AI, the suite of artificial intelligence features which are currently only available on the Galaxy S24 series, to its older Galaxy S22 series as well, as per a report. Earlier, the tech giant had confirmed that the AI features would be added to the Galaxy S23 series, Galaxy Z Fold 5, Galaxy Z Flip 5, and the Galaxy Tab S9 series as a part of its upcoming One UI 6.1 update, but it did not include the Galaxy S22 lineup.However, according to a report by South Korean news outlet Naver News, TM Roh, the President…
Small everyday items make a large chunk of these discarded gadgets.Our discarded electronic gadgets are creating unmanageable e-waste across the world, according to a shocking new report. The report from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) said that the world produced 62 million tonnes of e-waste in 2022 – the equivalent weight of 6,000 Eiffel Towers, or filling around 1.55 million 40-tonne trucks – equivalent to encircling the equator with trucks bumper-to-bumper. It revealed another grim statistic – that the world”s waste is increasing by 2.6 million tonnes each year and could…
Shabir Ahmad Shah (70) was arrested in 2017 by the Enforcement DirectorateSrinagar: Jailed Kashmir separatist Shabir Ahmad Shah”s daughter Sama Shabir and Pakistan supporter Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s granddaughter Ruwa Shah have dissociated themselves from the separatist ideology and pledged their loyalty to the sovereignty of Union of India.In identical public notices published in local newspapers, they distanced themselves from separatist politics.Ruwa Shah, daughter of Geelani’s son-in-law Altaf Ahmad Shah alias Altaf Fantoosh, issued a public notice distancing herself from the Hurriyat Conference faction founded by her late grandfather.She also declared she had no inclination or sympathy towards the Hurriyat…
The Election Commission on Thursday, March 21, made public a fresh data set of electoral bonds, including the unique identification numbers or the alpha-numeric numbers that can help match their purchasers with the political parties that received the funds. Two separate lists of the donors and the recipients were published by the poll panel on its website after the details were submitted to it by the State Bank of India earlier in the day as per a Supreme Court order. The State Bank of India was the only bank authorised to sell and redeem the bonds, which were first issued…
In reality, Congress’s bankruptcy is “moral and intellectual, not financial”, BJP chief JP Nadda said.New Delhi: BJP chief JP Nadda today dismissed the Congress”s talk of financial helplessness as “comical”, and said the party can use the money accumulated from “all the scams” that took place during its rule for electioneering.The BJP’s reaction came after former Congress president Sonia Gandhi demanded that the party be given access to its bank accounts to ensure a level playing field for the Lok Sabha polls and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of making a systematic effort to cripple the party financially.In a post…
The post also caught the attention of the 50-year-old tennis playerLeander Paes, a household name in tennis, needs no introduction for most. But for one adorable 6-year-old, an introduction was exactly what he needed! In a heartwarming case of mistaken identity, the little girl matched “dancer” to Leander Paes” name in a quiz. This tickled her uncle so much, that he just had to share this delightful mix-up online.X user Prithvi posted a picture from his niece’s workbook where she had to match celebrities to their professions. While the young student correctly identified cricketer Virat Kohli and singing icon Lata…
Income tax: These changes were announced by Finance Minister this year.April 1 marks the beginning of a new financial year and it is always significant from a personal finance point of view as most of the Budget proposals on income tax take into effect from this day. Additionally, other changes also become applicable from this day which may impact individual finances. These changes were announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget speech this year. Here”s a look at some of the major changes you should be aware of, including expanded basic exemption limits among others. Key income tax changes…