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Speaking exclusively to NDTV on Tuesday, Mr Salve addressed the opposition’s demand for a joint parliamentary committee to investigate Hindenburg’s latest allegations that Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and her husband, Dhaval, had a stake in offshore entities used in alleged financial wrongdoing by the Adani Group. The former solicitor general said a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) is not an appellate body and such panels are set up in rare cases, when there are issues of national importance. Mr Salve stressed that the push for a JPC probe is undermining the authority of the Supreme…
Ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in first comments after leaving Dhaka, has sought that rioters in the country be punished. She has also sought justice for the vandalism to the statue of her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was also the Founding Father of Bangladesh. In a three-page emotive statement posted on X by her son, Sheikh Hasina reminisced about the family members she lost when her father was assassinated on August 15, 1975. Mujibur Rahman’s sons and their wives, his bother’s family, close colleagues and asociates were wiped out the same night by the army as part of…
Paris Olympics 2024 Vinesh Phogat’s CAS Verdict, Live Updates: The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)’s verdict in the case of wrestler Vinesh Phogat has been delayed once again. The new deadline set by CAS for the verdict is 9:30 PM (IST) on August 16. The wrestler was disqualified from the 50kg freestyle wrestling gold medal match at the Paris Olympics 2024 for being 100 grams overweight. If the decision comes in her favour, Vinesh can win a joint silver medal. Here are the Live Updates of Vinesh Phogat’s Court of Arbitration for Sport appeal verdict, Paris Olympics 2024: Original Source
Starbucks said Tuesday that Brian Niccol, chief executive at Chipotle, would be the coffee chain’s new CEO — just over a year after current boss Laxman Narasimhan took over the role. Mr Narasimhan steps down as chief executive and as a member of the Starbucks board “with immediate effect,” said the company in a statement. The leadership shifts come as Starbucks pushes to turn around its business, while contending with broad-based sales declines in its most recent financial results. Starbucks has cited weakening consumer sentiment and difficult market conditions in China as factors in its troubles. “Brian is a culture…
The Supreme Court has re-emphasised the ‘bail is rule, jail is exception’ principle – which it underlined while granting bail last week to ex Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia – that courts must follow, even when charges are filed under special statutes like anti-terror law UAPA. The reference was to one of the truly landmark moments in Indian jurisprudence, dating back to 1977 when Justice Krishna Iyer lay down what many see as a cardinal rule, that ‘bail is the rule…’ And, in a significant statement today, a bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Augustine George Masih…
A sperm or egg donor has no legal right on the child and cannot claim to be its biological parent, the Bombay High Court held today while allowing a 42-year-old woman visitation rights to her five-year-old twin daughters. The woman, in her plea, said her daughters, born via surrogacy, were living with her husband and younger sister, who was the egg donor. The petitioner’s husband had claimed since his sister-in-law was the egg donor, she had a legitimate right to be called a biological parent of the twins and that his wife had no right over them. A single bench…
Vinesh Phogat’s disqualification from the women’s 50kg wrestling final at Paris Olympics 2024 came as a massive heart-break for Indian sports fans. However, before that, Vinesh’s bouts sent India into euphoria. She pulled off the biggest upset at the Paris Games by outwitting hitherto invincible Yui Susaki with a perfectly planned strategy before edging past Ukraine’s Oksana Livach to storm into the women’s 50kg semifinal. The Tokyo Games gold medallist and four-time World Champion (2017, 2018, 2022, 2023) Susaki had not lost any of her 82 bouts in her international career but the Japanese top seed hardly had an idea as to what was…
The Election Commission will hold a meeting with Home secretary Ajay Bhalla tomorrow to review security situation in Jammu and Kashmir, sources have said. Recently a delegation of the Commission led by Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar had reviewed the poll preparations in Jammu and Kashmir, where elections are expected later this year. At a press conference in Jammu, Mr Kumar had emphasised that the Commission is committed to holding the elections in the Union Territory at the earliest. No outside or internal forces can derail the electoral process, he had said. Jammu and Kashmir has not had an elected…
Hamas’ armed al-Qassam Brigades said on Tuesday it targeted the Israeli city of Tel Aviv and its suburbs with two “M90” rockets. “A short time ago, one launch was detected that crossed the territory of the Gaza Strip and fell into the maritime space in the center of the country. No policy alerts were triggered. At the same time, another launch was detected that did not cross into Israel,” the Israeli Air Force said. לפני זמן קצר זוהה שיגור אחד שחצה משטח רצועת עזה ונפל במרחב הימי במרכז הארץ. לא הופעלו התרעות על פי מדיניות. במקביל, זוהה שיגור נוסף שלא…
As India prepares to celebrate the 78th Independence Day, the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) unveiled that it is making potent swadeshi (indigenous) Kamikaze Drones, do-and-die unmanned aerial vehicles with home-built engines that can power them to fly up to 1,000 kilometres. Loitering munitions are do-and-die machines. They have been widely used in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war and the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza. These unmanned aerial vehicles have been used extensively by the Ukrainians to target Russian infantry and armoured vehicles. They loiter in the general area of interest for an extended period, carry explosives and ram the target when commanded…