New Delhi, Feb 27 (UNI) The Supreme Court on Thursday held that arbitrary arrests and coercion by tax authorities violate constitutional rights, and directed that enforcement actions by the officials should remain within the bounds of the law. While delivering a landmark judgment clarifying the powers of arrest under the Goods and Services Tax (GST)…
Kabul, Feb 24 (UNI) A British couple in their seventies have been arrested by the Taliban in Afghanistan, media reports said. Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, were returning to their home in Bamiyan on February 1, when they were detained, the BBC reported. The couple has been running training projects in Afghanistan…
Prayagraj, Feb 22 (UNI) The Global Kumbh Summit, hosted within the Maha Kumbh Mela premises, has united intellectuals from across the world, fostering dialogues aimed at the collective welfare of humanity. French author and former UN parliamentarian Herve Juvin shared his profound thoughts on Maha Kumbh. He emphasised that this grand gathering significantly contributes to…
Los Angeles, Feb 22 (UNI) U.S. company Intuitive Machines is set to launch its second lunar mission later this month to deliver NASA science to the lunar surface, NASA said on Friday. The mission, codenamed IM-2, will lift off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida no earlier than…
No action is being taken against drivers obstructing traffic Traffic police busy in challaning Bhopal: Traffic system has collapsed due to the arbitrariness of auto drivers at Board Office crossing, to which the police is not paying any attention. The job of the police is to maintain the traffic system, so that the general public…
New Delhi, Feb 17 (UNI) The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice on a petition challenging the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s directive to transport and dispose of 337 metric tonnes of hazardous chemical waste from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy site to Pithampur, Madhya Pradesh. A bench comprising Justice BR Gavai and Justice AG Masih…
Islamabad, Feb 17 (UNI) Eleven people were killed and seven others injured in two separate road accidents in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province on Sunday, local media and police said. One of the accidents occurred in the Multan district in a traffic pile-up involving a passenger van, a car, and a motorbike, resulting in six deaths…
Rome, Feb 15 (UNI) World number one Jannik Sinner has accepted an immediate three-month ban from tennis after reaching a settlement with the World Anti-Doping Agency over his two positive drugs test last year. The 23-year-old Italian, who last month won the Australian Open, is suspended from February 9 until May 4, the BBC reported….
New Delhi, Feb 14 (UNI) India’s wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation eased to 2.31% year-on-year in January 2025 from 2.37% in the previous month, as per official data released on Friday. “Positive rate of inflation in January, 2025 is primarily due to increase in prices of manufacture of food products, food articles, other manufacturing, non-food…
New Delhi, Feb 13 (UNI) Reiterating that sectoral allocation and effective capital expenditure have gone up in the Budget 2025-26, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said that government will continue to take steps to reduce the burden of price rise, while also dismissing the concerns around depreciation of Indian Rupee (INR) against US…
