Less than three weeks after Uttarakhand became the first state in independent India to pass legislation on a Uniform Civil Code, Assam has taken its first step towards a similar law and decided to repeal the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Registration Act. Making the announcement on Friday, Assam Minister Jayanta Malla Baruah said the decision…
The Bosch group said Friday it would axe 3,500 jobs at its BSH home appliances subsidiary by 2027, the latest in a series of cuts among German manufacturers as they struggle with rising costs and weaker demand. The company had to “reduce complexity and costs” in order to “safeguard its competitiveness” in a challenging economic…
The Patiala House Court of Delhi on Friday granted 20 more days to Delhi Police to complete the investigation against Prabir Purkayastha, founder and Editor-in-Chief and Amit Chakravarty, HR Head of the news portal in the case registered under the provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, following allegations that News Portal NewsClick received…
The Jammu and Kashmir State Investigation Agency (SIA) has filed a 4th supplementary chargesheet against six more accused in a case relating to terror funding, taking the total toll of accused to 18, police said on Friday. According to an official Jammu and Kashmir police release, “Mohd Sharief Chechi, Farooq Ahmad Jungal, and Saif Din…
A fresh demand for the grant of special category status to Bihar was raised inside the assembly on Friday by a key aide of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who is now in the BJP-led NDA. Power Minister Bijendra Yadav, while presenting his department’s budget before the House, urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to fulfill the…
The Allahabad High Court has held that a property purchased by a husband in the name of a wife, who is a homemaker and has no independent source of income, is a family property. Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal said that it is common and natural for Hindu husbands to purchase properties in the name…
The joy in the INDIA bloc over seat-sharing breakthroughs may prove to be short-lived, with the Trinamool Congress reiterating that it will contest all 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. The party’s snub to the Congress comes after a wild swing in less than 24 hours, with sources in the alliance indicating on Thursday…
A 24-year-old man died by suicide in Uttar Pradesh because he was not “getting a job”, police said today. The man, who had recently appeared for a police recruitment exam, hanged himself in his home, his family claimed. Brijesh Pal, who was from Kannauj, left behind a suicide note where he mentioned that he burned…
American forces shot down three one-way attack drones near commercial ships in the Red Sea on Friday, after striking four drones on the ground in Yemen the day before, the US military said. Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis have been targeting shipping for months and their attacks have persisted despite repeated American and British strikes aimed at…
Gaza truce talks were under way in Paris on Friday, in what appears to be the most serious push for weeks to halt the fighting in the battered Palestinian enclave and see Israeli and foreign hostages released. A source briefed on the ceasefire talks, who could not be identified by name or nationality, said talks…