New Delhi: Former bureaucrat Ashok Chawla Friday resigned as chairman of the National Stock Exchange with immediate effect, the bourse said, hours after the CBI said the Centre has granted sanction to prosecute him in the Aircel-Maxis case.
Kundapura: Senior journalist Dinesh Amin Mattu demanded the concerned authorities to disclose the real cause of senior IPS office Madhukar Shetty’s death which triggered suspicion.
Mumbai: Actor-director Pooja Bhatt believes women start blooming in their forties but somehow they are not represented correctly on the screen whereas men continue to play characters half their age.
Bengaluru: A youth tried to commit suicide by jumping on the Namma Metro rails in the city on Friday. The incident happened at the Metro Station near Basavanagudi National College and the youth has been identified as Venu (25) and he is working as a tailor.
Bantwala: The robbers who barged into a gas agency looted lakhs of rupees at Maripalla on Friday.
New Delhi: Industrial output growth dropped to a 17-month low of 0.5 per cent in November on account of contraction in manufacturing sector, particularly consumer and capital goods.
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy Friday sought time to act against minister for backward classes welfare C Puttarangashetty, whose personal assistant was nabbed with unaccounted cash of Rs 25.76 lakh on January 4 at the state secretariat.
Panchkula: A CBI court Friday convicted self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and three others for the murder of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati 16 years ago.
Srinagar: IAS officer Shah Faesal, who has announced his resignation, Friday said he was willing to contest the upcoming parliamentary elections but would not be joining any political party "as of now".
New Delhi: Indian cricketers Hardik Pandya and K L Rahul were Friday suspended pending an inquiry into their outrage-evoking comments on women during a TV show, ruling them out of the ODI series against Australia starting Saturday.
