Month: April 2025

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate on Saturday said it has started proceedings to take possession of more than Rs 700 crore worth of properties of Associate Journals Ltd (AJL), controlled by Sonia and Rahul Gandhi. AJL owned Congress mouthpiece National Herald and associated publications.AJL properties, in prime locations in Lucknow, Mumbai and Delhi, including Herald House on BSZ Marg in New Delhi, were long ago attached by ED in its ongoing laundering probe against AJL and the Gandhis. ED has also served notices to corporate houses running offices from some of these premises, asking them to deposit rent to ED.ED, in its statement, said, "Investigation has conclusively revealed Young Indian, a private company beneficially owned by Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, acquired AJL's properties worth Rs 2,000 crore for a mere Rs 50 lakh, significantly undervaluing its worth." The agency […]

[ad_1] MUMBAI: India experienced the flip side of going cashless when Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the platform that accounts for more than four-fifths of all digital transactions in the country, suffered a major outage Saturday, leaving users struggling to make payments across malls, parking lots and shops.Users across India reported failed payments. Some got debit alerts despite failed transactions. National Payments Corporation of India, which operates UPI, reported "intermittent technical issues leading to partial transaction declines" which "stabilised by late afternoon". TNNNPCI said they regretted the outage and were "working to resolve the issue". The impact was pan-India, with complaints from people in Bengal, Delhi, Maharashtra, UP, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Assam and the southern states. A woman in the national capital said the outage inconvenienced people at a specialty hospital as it led to a long queue at the payments desk. […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Observing that bills if kept pending after their passage by state legislature militate against the very sustenance of a representative democracy based on direct elections, Supreme Court has ruled that neither the President nor governors have "unbridled powers" and neither of them has the power to exercise 'absolute veto' on any bill passed by the assembly. It said the constitutional functionaries have to take decisions in a time-bound manner and fixed it at three months for the President.Clearing the constitutional ambiguity over the role of the constitutional head of the country and those of states when bills are sent for their assent, a bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan said the authorities have to pass a reasoned order and cannot sit indefinitely on bills. It said delay on their part as well as decisions […]

[ad_1] AHMEDABAD: A murder that had gripped the city with its gruesome details has ended in acquittal. Gujarat HC overturned a trial court conviction of Nasim Mansuri, who has spent nearly 10 years in jail, over the charge of killing his ex-wife. The case dates back to 2007 when victim Jayshri, a TV actress, was found with her head floating in a lake, and her body near Vatva canal. HC overturned Mansuri's conviction citing gaps in prosecution's case. It said the circumstantial evidence was not strong enough to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt. Jayshri & Mansuri married in '92. As per prosecution's case, she divorced him years later & remarried. Enraged, Mansuri was accused of killing her. The trial court gave life sentence to Mansuri. He has since served over nine years in jail. tnn [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Customs did not collect any tariff because of a technical glitch at ports that lasted for 10 hours, reports said. While tempers are rising between the US and China over tariffs, Chinese products found no difficulty at the ports on Friday as no extra tariff was charged because there was a 'technical' glitch. CNBC reported that the glitch lasted for more than 10 hours. US Customs and Border Protection reported that an entry code in the US system for American ships to use to have their freight exempted from tariffs was not working, and as a result, no tariffs were being collected by the US government for the time being. Though Donald Trump said tariffs were already in effect, US shippers told CNBC they have not been charged higher tariff rates on their containers. What was the glitch that […]

[ad_1] A man facing the death penalty for committing two murders was executed by firing squad on Friday, the second such execution in the US state of South Carolina this year.Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed for the 2004 murder of 56-year-old James Myers, an off-duty police officer, and the murder of a convenience store employee three days earlier. According to a statement from the prison, "the execution was performed by a three-person firing squad," with Mahdi pronounced dead four minutes later."Tonight, the state of South Carolina executed him by firing squad -- a horrifying act that belongs in the darkest chapters of history, not in a civilized society," defense lawyer David Weiss said in a statement. "Mikal died in full view of a system that failed him at every turn -- from childhood to his final breath."Myers found Mahdi hiding […]

[ad_1] SRINAGAR: BJP on Saturday accused the governing National Conference (NC) of trying to “destabilise the peaceful atmosphere of J&K” by making provocative statements and raising religious slogans in the just concluded Budget session of assembly.“NC has never done anything for peace in the region. NC MLAs raised the slogan of “nara-e-takbeer” (God is great) in the assembly,” Sunil Sharma, BJP member and leader of opposition, said at a press conference. “The assembly is not Jamia Masjid. You want to provoke and misguide people. We will not allow it,” he added.Sharma alleged NC was trying to create a religious division in J&K. “They should remember that the assembly is a temple of the Constitution of India,” he said.In the last three days of the budget session, which concluded on April 9, the House witnessed heated arguments and commotion after speaker […]

[ad_1] JAMMU: An army junior commissioned officer (JCO) was killed Saturday in repelling an infiltration attempt by Pakistani terrorists from across the LoC in Sunderbani of Jammu’s Akhnoor sector. Two more terrorists were gunned down in a separate, ongoing operation in Kishtwar where a gunman was shot dead on Friday.The death of JCO Kuldeep Chand (46) came days after Indian army officials lodged strong protests against infiltration attempts, ceasefire violations, and IED blasts with their Pakistani counterparts at a Brigade Commander-Level flag meeting in Poonch. Chand was a native of Himachal Pradesh and is survived by his wife, two children and elderly parents.Officials said Chand was part of troops from the Army’s 9 Punjab regiment manning a forward post along the LOC in Keri Battal area of Akhnoor’s Sunderbani. They noticed movement of a group of heavily armed terrorists near […]