NEW DELHI — Billionaire Indian industrialist Gautam Adani has been charged with paying hundreds of millions of dollars of bribes and hiding the payments from investors, US prosecutors said on Wednesday. With a business empire spanning coal, airports, cement and media, the chairman of Adani Group has been rocked in recent years by corporate fraud […]
NEW DELHI — Driven by increasing demand and scalability, Solar energy generation costs are likely to drop by 40-60 per cent by 2050, according to a report by the International Solar Alliance (ISA). The report also noted that solar power is emerging as the most scalable and cost-effective renewable energy source, making it central to […]
NEW DELHI — Oscar winning composer AR Rahman and his wife Saira, after nearly 30 years of marriage, today jointly announced through their lawyer that they have “made the difficult decision to separate” from each other. “After many years of marriage, Mrs. Saira and her husband Mr. A R. Rahman have made the difficult decision […]
JHANSI (UP) — Another child among the 39 rescued from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) fire at Jhansi’s Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College succumbed on Monday, raising the death toll to 12, officials said. Now 37 more newborns, who were rescued after the fire on Friday night, are undergoing treatment, a senior officer of […]
NEW DELHI — India’s capital New Delhi switched schools to online classes Monday until further notice as worsening toxic smog surged past 60 times the World Health Organization’s recommended daily maximum. Various piecemeal government initiatives have failed to measurably address the problem, with the smog blamed for thousands of premature deaths each year and particularly […]
MUMBAI — Nine Kashmiris were arrested in a joint operation of Ahilyanagar (formerly Ahmednagar) police in Maharashtra and Military Intelligence, Sothern Command and nine rifles as well as 58 live cartridges were allegedly seized from them, an official said on Sunday. The probe began after reliable information was received about some persons hailing from Jammu […]
JHANSI (UP) — At least 10 children died in a fire that engulfed the children’s ward of a medical college in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi district, officials said, as 16 others injured battled for life on Saturday. District Magistrate (DM) Avinash Kumar told reporters that the fire broke out around 10.45 pm on Friday in the […]
MANDI (HP) — The mortal remains of a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) who died in an encounter with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir were consigned to flames at his native village in Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district on Tuesday. A resident of Barnog village in Nachan Assembly constituency, Naib Subedar Rakesh Kumar of 2 Para (Special […]
NEW DELHI — Justice Sanjiv Khanna was on Monday sworn in as the 51st Chief Justice of India. President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office to Justice Khanna at the swearing-in ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Justice Khanna, who will serve as CJI for a little over six months, will demit office on May […]
NEW DELHI — Indian Air Force (IAF) has said it has ordered an enquiry hours after a MiG-29 aircraft crashed after encountering a system malfunction near Agra in Uttar Pradesh. There was no loss of life or property reported in the incident. “A MiG-29 aircraft of the IAF crashed near Agra during a routine training […]