A man, looking for a part-time job, was duped of Rs 10.84 lakh by fraudsters claiming to pay him for “online tasks”, police said on Friday. Two men, Rishab Patel (18) and Aditya Badotkar (22), both residents of Indore in Madhya Pradesh, were arrested for the fraud, they said. Delhi Police said the fraud money…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited former U.S. President Donald Trump at Trump’s Florida resort on Friday for a meeting that could ease tensions between two leaders who forged a close alliance during Trump’s years in the White House. Netanyahu met Trump, the Republican nominee in the 2024 U.S. presidential race, a day after Netanyahu…
Deviating from the stand taken by her counterparts belonging to other parties in the INDIA alliance, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said she will attend the Niti Aayog general council meeting on Saturday because it is in the interest of her state, adding that she will raise the issues of all opposition-ruled states. The…
The Delhi High Court has directed two people accused of outraging the modesty of their neighbour’s wife to do community service at Gurudwara Rakab Ganj Sahib for a period of one month, as it quashed the FIR in the matter following a settlement between the parties. Justice Subramonium Prasad observed that the accused had assaulted…
WhatsApp and its parent company Meta has not informed the government of any plans to shut down its services in India, I&B Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told the Rajya Sabha on Friday. “Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has shared that WhatsApp or Meta has not informed the government about any such plans,” Mr Vaishnaw…
The macabre murder of a woman in a Bengaluru paying guest (PG) facility on Tuesday was captured on CCTV. The man seen in the footage has not been identified yet, the police said. Kriti Kumari, 24, from Bihar was stabbed to death in her PG by an unidentified man who slipped into the building in…
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that capital expenditure or CapEx is “one assured way through which consumption can be increased. Ms Sitharaman, while speaking to NDTV’s Editor-in-Chief Sanjay Pugalia, said that she believes in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s emphasis on capital expenditure. “I honestly believe in the PM’s emphasis on capital expenditure, public funding of…
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, a premier multi-disciplinary nuclear research centre, has developed a module for modular building of nuclear energy centres, Nirmala Sitharaman told NDTV. The government, in the Budget unveiled this week, has opened up the nuclear power sector for private investments to boost the share of atomic energy production as the government…
Pune city police on Friday filed a more than 900-page charge sheet in the ‘Pune Porsche crash’ case, officials said. A senior police official said that the charge sheet has been submitted before the Pune district court. A case was registered by the Pune crime branch unit after the accident against the parents of the…
Indian solar module manufacturers such as Tata Power Solar, ReNew Photovoltaic and Avaada Electro have approached the government to get visa applications for Chinese engineers and technicians cleared as they scale up operations to meet the country’s ambitious renewable energy targets, sources said. The three firms have since January sought government support to get ‘business…