Month: May 2025

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: During her questioning over three days in July 2022 in the National Herald money laundering case, former Congress president Sonia Gandhi had told Enforcement Directorate (ED) that she was not aware of who took the decision in Congress to assign the Rs 90 crore loan of Associated Journals Ltd (AJL) to Young Indian, a not-for profit company in which she and her son Rahul Gandhi held 76% stake."Motilal Vora, the then treasurer of Congress, would have been aware of this as he was empowered to deal with administrative and financial matters," Sonia had told the investigators, the ED said in its chargesheet filed against her on April 9. Rahul took an identical stand, refusing to acknowledge the controversial transactions that have become the prime money laundering charges slapped by the agency against the two.Young Indian took over […]

[ad_1] Lucknow Super Giants captain Rishabh Pant. (AP Photo) Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) skipper Rishabh Pant struck a note of optimism after his side's 33-run win over Gujarat Titans (GT) at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Thursday, in what was a spirited performance despite their exit from the IPL 2025 playoff race.“Definitely happy. We have shown as a team that we can play good cricket,” Pant said in the post-match presentation. “There was a time in the tournament we had the chance to qualify. But that's part and parcel of the game. We need to learn and get better.”Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Fiery spells from William O'Rourke and Akash Singh Maharaj helped restrict the high-flying Titans, handing LSG a morale-boosting victory in their penultimate league game. Who's that IPL player?Pant credited the performance […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: ED has identified properties worth Rs 75 crore associated with jailed former CMD of UCO Bank Subodh Kumar Goel which were allegedly acquired through bribes received for sanctioning loans worth thousands of crores to Concast Steel & Power Ltd (CSPL), which later defaulted on repayments.Sources said Goel, who was arrested by ED from his New Delhi residence on May 16, had acquired properties in Delhi-NCR, which included a bungalow in upscale Panchsheel Park in Delhi, a villa in Jaypee Greens in Noida, several flats and plots in Noida and Greater Noida, besides warehouses and commercial properties. All the assets in question were purchased using shell companies, many of which were controlled by his son, daughter-in-law and wife.CSPL and its promoter Sanjay Sureka have defaulted on loans of over Rs 6,200 crore, taken from a consortium of 27 […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The pollution in the Yamuna spiked in May with a substantial rise in fecal levels, phosphates and ammonia. Delhi Pollution Control Committee's monthly analysis shows that while the river was more polluted at its exit from the city at Asgarpur, it also entered the city at Palla with substantial pollution levels.The samples of the river were collected on May 1, a day before the city recorded heavy rains. The pollution load in major drains like Maharani Bagh, Shahdara and Najafgarh also increased in May.According to DPCC, while fecal coliform has increased since last month, the river also recorded a spike in ammonia, with the ammoniacal nitrogen levels doubling to 5.7mg/litre from 2.3mg/l last month. The fecal coliform level reading was 23 lakh MPN/100ml in May, much higher than the 15 lakh MPN/100ml in April.Experts, however, were concerned […]

[ad_1] NOIDA: Rushing back home from the society park Wednesday evening to avoid intense winds and sudden rain, Sunita (50) and little Advik (2) were buried under a colossal tin sheet that, cut loose by the storm, fell from the terrace of the 21-storey building where they lived on the 6th floor.Sunita and Advik were steps away from the safety of their Sun-4 tower's lobby at Greater Noida's Migsun Ultimo when the sheet thudded down at 8.45pm. Sunita died on the spot. The boy, possibly shielded by his grandmother, was still breathing when he was rushed to hospital, but succumbed later in the night.Greater Noida deaths trigger angry protests The tragedy left Migsun Ultimo in shock and triggered a protest by residents against the developer of the society at Omicron 3 roundabout. The tin sheet wasn't the only lethal flying […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday thrice said "ED is crossing all limits" and stayed the agency's investigation into alleged money laundering by TN State Marketing Corporation (Tasmac) pursuant to a raid on its headquarters on March 6-8.Appearing for the Tamil Nadu govt and Tasmac, senior advocates Kapil Sibal, Mukul Rohatgi and Amit Anand Tiwari told a bench of CJI B R Gavai and Justice A G Masih that ED had conducted an illegal raid on Tasmac when no predicate offence had been registered against it, adding that this struck at the root of federalism. They accused the agency of violating the right to privacy of employees by cloning the phones seized from them."They should not use the data taken from the phones of employees," the counsel argued.Additional solicitor general S V Raju tried to defend the raid and […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Jamia Millia Islamia has expelled six students and barred them from seeking admission to any programme in the university for up to three years over their alleged involvement in a violent clash that took place on the campus last month.The university has also issued show-cause notices to 20 other students in connection with the incident. The notices were issued on April 28.The disciplinary action follows a violent confrontation between two student groups on April 25 near the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Kaushal Kendra inside Gate Number 8 of the campus. According to the notices, what started as a brawl quickly escalated into large-scale violence, with students and outsiders allegedly using lathis, stones and other dangerous weapons to attack each other and disrupt peace on campus.One of the expulsion orders, addressed to a student from the diploma in civil […]