The probe into financial irregularities committed by Chinese tech company Vivio in India is turning out to be murkier than what was initially reported. On Thursday, the Enforcement Directorate said that the Indian arm of Vivo had sent a whopping Rs 62,476 crore “illegally” to China in order to avoid payment of taxes in India. …

While most parts of India have received some monsoon rains, the showers ate still elusive in the national capital. And making matters worse is the humidity, turning Tuesday into one of the worst days the national capital has recorded this summer. The maximum temperature on Tuesday at Safdarjung was recorded at 41.5 degrees Celsius. BCCL Jump To Humidity makes life …

Muslims of India will never allow the Taliban mindset to surface in the country, Zainul Abedin Ali Khan, the Deewan of the famed Ajmer Dargah has said. Condemning the brutal murder of a Hindu man by two Muslim youths who filmed their act and bragged about it on social media, Khan said the accused were a part of certain radical …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the number of confirmed monkeypox cases around the world has crossed 3,200. One death has also been reported from the infection. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also said that cases in non-endemic countries were still predominantly among men who have sex with men. Reuters “Person-to-person transmission is ongoing and is likely underestimated,” …

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea by Zakia Jafri, the wife of slain Congress leader Ehsan Jafri against the SIT’s clean chit to the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gujarat riots case. The SC said that Zakia Jafri’s plea was devoid of merit. The bench of Justice AM Khanwilkar, Justice Dinesh Maheshwari and Justice CT …

Across the world, June is being marked as pride month, where sexual minorities including lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, queers, and more, get a chance to celebrate their true selves in a society that is somewhat reluctant to accept them as ‘normal’. In India too, despite same-sex relations being decriminalised, they are still frowned upon by a large section of the …

The protests over the newly announced Agnipath Scheme for army recruitment have entered their second day in Bihar. On Thursday, thousands of youths assembled at the Jahanabad railway station on the Patna-Gaya rail route and blocked the tracks demanding the rollback of the scheme and recruitment under the normal process. Jump To Protesters want Agnipath scheme rolled back What will …

The pandemic years saw the super-rich of India queuing up to flee the country, mostly to countries in Europe, America and the Middle East. The devastation caused by COVID was said to be one of the main reasons that made the high net worth individuals (HNWI) leave India. But even in 2022 the trend of the super rich migrating to …

In a bizarre incident, RPF officials in Bihar found a man travelling sitting inside the central motor space underneath the engine of a train. The incident was reported on Tuesday at the Gaya station on the Sarnath Budh Purnima Express Train. It all began on Monday when the train reached Gaya railway station at 4:10 am. BCCL/ Representational Image Jump …

More than 4,100 lives were lost, and close to 5,000 civilians were injured, and more than seven million displaced – these are the ‘official figures from the past 100 days since Russia launched its ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine. We may never know the real toll, especially in cities like Mariupol, which Ukraine says was the scene of a Russian …