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LONDON: An Indian-born British civil servant has found himself unwittingly under fire on social media over the controversial Chagos deal.Dr Francis Vijay Narasimhan Rangarajan was born in Delhi and educated at Cambridge University where he obtained a master’s in maths and PhD in astrophysics.Since March 2024 he has been chief executive of the Electoral Commission….
A servant couple allegedly kept a retired railway employee and his mentally ill daughter confined in their own home for five years, allegedly out of greed for property in Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. JHANSI: A servant couple allegedly kept a retired railway employee and his mentally ill daughter confined in their own home for five years,…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday stepped in to stay the Delhi high court order that suspended the former BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s life sentence in the 2017 Unnao rape case. On the Central Investigation Bureau’s plea challenging the HC order, Supreme Court bench flagged serious legal concerns over the interpretation of the…
Shimla doctor who thrashed patient sacked: Govt finds act ‘unbecoming of a public servant’ SHIMLA: The Himachal Pradesh govt on Wednesday terminated the services of Dr Raghav Nirula, a senior resident doctor in the department of pulmonary medicine at Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC), Shimla, for assaulting a patient on Dec 22.The action was taken…
File photo: Kuldeep Singh Sengar NEW DELHI: Kuldeep Singh Sengar, former UP MLA convicted of raping a minor girl in Unnao in 2017, did not come under the definition of a public servant under the Pocso Act, Delhi high court held in its Dec 23 order suspending his sentence.In a curious move, high court has…
JD Vance’s old comment calling foreign skills ‘foreign servants’ triggered a major row amid the ongoing H-1B controversy. An old comment of vice president JD Vance on foreign skills has resurfaced and gone viral, triggering a massive row as the Donald Trump administration has put in place several measures for the sake of ‘America First’….
NEW DELHI: Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday compared the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to Zionists in Israel, saying, “Zionists in Israel and RSS in India are twin brothers.” He made the remark while addressing a public meeting in Kannur, reports news agency ANI.Taking aim at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vijayan criticised him over…
Assam bureaucrat Nupur Bora GUWAHATI: An Assam bureaucrat under investigation for alleged corruption involving illegal land transfer to “a particular community” in Barpeta, among the districts where the BJP-led govt has launched a drive against suspected Bangladeshi settlers, was Monday revealed to be a young woman into only her sixth year in the state civil…
