Costa Navarino (Greece), Mar 20 (UNI) International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach was named Honorary Life President, marking a historic moment at the 144th IOC Session as he prepares to step down in June after 12 years at the helm of the global Olympic movement. The announcement came towards the end of the first…
New Delhi, March 20 (UNI) Showing robust growth trajectory, India’s domestic air passenger traffic rose 13.1% year-on-year to 143 lakh in February 2025, as per research and rating firm ICRA. For the first 11 months of the current fiscal 2024-25 (FY25), domestic air passenger traffic was 1,551 lakh with a year-on-year growth of 7.7%. “The…
New Delhi, Mar 20 (UNI) In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court recently granted interim protection from eviction to nearly 19,000 street vendors in Pimpri-Chinchwad, near Pune in Maharashtra. A bench comprising Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta issued the order, stating, “The exercise to accommodate the 19,792 street vendors or 14,000 and odd…
New Delhi, Mar 20 (UNI) The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed its inclination to transfer the money laundering case linked to the 2020 Kerala gold smuggling scandal from Kerala to Karnataka. A bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and Rajesh Bindal was hearing the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) transfer petition, filed in 2022, seeking to shift the…
Washington/New Delhi, Mar 20 (UNI) An Indian postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University has been detained by US immigration authorities for his alleged anti-Semitic posts on social media and close ties with a known senior advisor to Hamas. Badar Khan Suri, who was studying and teaching on a student visa, was arrested by masked agents outside…
New Delhi, Mar 20 (UNI) DMK MPs Kanimozhi, T Siva along with other MPs on Thursday staged a protest on the issue of delimitation in Parliament House premises, saying it will have a “potential impact’ on the state. Speaking to the reporters, DMK MP Kanimozhi said, “Our leader Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin has…
Mumbai, Mar 20 (UNI) Extending gains for the fourth consecutive session on Thursday, the BSE Sensex rallied 459 pts at 75,908 in the opening session following gains in IT, technology and utilities stocks amid strong global peers. Even the US Federal upheld the rate cut decision for the remainder of the year also boosted the…
By Dr. Namita Chandra Verma, Gynaecologist and Infertility Specialist, Birla Fertility and IVF, Raipur Fertility in today’s world is impacted by a multitude of factors that are often overlooked. In the modern lifestyle, access to unhealthy dietary habits is on the fingertips and these quick hunger solutions are often characterised by a high intake of…
Jerusalem, Mar 20 (UNI) Israel on Wednesday expressed “sorrow” over the death of a Bulgarian United Nations staff member in strikes on UN guesthouses in Gaza’s Deir al-Balah but said an initial investigation found no Israeli involvement in the incident. The United Nations said the staffer, employed by the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS),…
Moscow, Mar 20 (UNI) Ukraine will not participate in the talks between US and Russian delegations, scheduled to be held in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, The Guardian newspaper reported, citing Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak. Podolyak admitted that it will be necessary to wait for the results of the telephone conversation between US President Donald…
