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New Delhi | Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has challenged all the summons of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against him in the High Court. His petition will be heard in Delhi High Court on Wednesday 20 March. ED has so far sent nine summons to Kejriwal in the Delhi Liquor Policy case and one summons in the Delhi Jal Board tender case. In both the cases, he was last summoned together on March 17. In the Jal Board case, he was called for questioning on March 18, but he did not go. #subhead1 He has been asked to appear on Thursday (March…

New Delhi | The nomination process for 102 Lok Sabha seats in 21 states of the country has started from today (20 March). The Election Commission has issued a notification for this. Voting will be held in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 19. These 102 seats include 39 from Tamil Nadu, 12 from Rajasthan and 6 from Madhya Pradesh. The Election Commission had announced the dates of Lok Sabha elections in a press conference on March 16. #subhead1 According to the notification of the Election Commission, the last date for filing nomination is March 27. Whereas, scrutiny of nomination papers…

Canada | Ottawa and Quebec have reached an agreement in principle on increasing the Canada Health Transfer to the province by $900 million, Radio-Canada has learned. The agreement in principle was reached during a meeting between Premier François Legault and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Montreal on Friday, Radio-Canada reports.Quebec was the last province not to have concluded an agreement with the federal government. The Trudeau government had set a deadline of March 31. Radio-Canada has learned that, in the agreement in principle, there will be no accountability or conditions imposed on Quebec on the use of the funding, which had been a sticking point…

Gaza |The United Nations has warned that Israel is using hunger as a weapon in Gaza. UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday that the situation of starvation in Gaza is the result of Israel's restrictions on distributing food there. The way Israel is restricting the delivery of food, it can be said that it is using starvation as a weapon. This is a war crime. At the same time, Turkish spokesperson Jeremy Lawrence told reporters in Geneva that this court will decide whether Israel has committed war crimes.  The UN, are responsible for starvation. Turk said that Gaza is under…

Islamabad | Asifa, sister of former Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto, has also entered politics. Asifa will contest from the seat vacated by her father and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari. 31 year old Asifa has filed her nomination from Shaheed Benazirabad seat of Sindh. Eight days ago, on March 11, she had become the First Lady of Pakistan. Actually this post belongs to the President's wife. However, Zardari made his daughter the First Lady. His wife and Pakistan's first female Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was shot dead in 2007. Pakistan Peoples Party presents Asifa as Benazir's shadow. #morepic1 Asifa is the youngest in the family.…

Washington | An American senator has expressed concern over the Indian government notifying rules for the implementation of the CAA, saying that as the US-India relationship deepens, it is important that the cooperation is based on shared values of protecting human rights of all, regardless of religion. India implemented the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 last week, paving the way for the grant of citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who came to India before December 31, 2014. The government also came out with a press statement to say that Indian Muslims need not worry as the…

New Delhi | According to a UN report, Pakistan is a happier country than India. On the occasion of 20th March i.e. World Happiness Day, the United Nations has released the Happiness Index report. In this, India is at 126th position. At the same time, our neighboring country Pakistan, which is struggling with economic crisis, is at number 108 in the list.According to the report, questions were prepared on 6 parameters to measure the prosperity of these 143 countries. In these, ranking was done on the basis of GDP per capita of the respective country, social cooperation, generosity and corruption, social freedom, healthy…

Geneva | Global heat records were smashed last year, the UN confirmed Tuesday, with 2023 rounding out the hottest decade on record, as heat waves stalked oceans and glaciers suffered record ice loss. The United Nations World Meteorological Organization issued its annual State of the Climate report, confirming preliminary data indicating that 2023 was by far the hottest year ever recorded. And it came at the end of the warmest 10-year period on record, the WMO report said.UN chief Antonio Guterres said the report showed a planet on the brink.Earths issuing a distress call, he said, pointing out that fossil fuel…

Mumbai | Shares of Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd  (IREDA)are in news today after NSE revoked the inclusion of the renewable energy stock in several key indices due to the firm’s non-compliance with SEBI portfolio concentration norms. As IREDA breached one of the requirements of SEBI Portfolio Concentration Norms for Equity Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and Index Funds related to impact cost, the committee has decided to revoke its earlier decision to include IREDA announced on February 28, 2024, said the NSE in a press release. IREDA will no longer be included in the Nifty 500, Nifty Midcap 150,…

Mumbai | Shares of  YES Bank Ltd will be in the focus of traders on Wednesday as the private lender sold stressed loan exposure to an asset reconstruction company. The company informed about the same through an exchange filing after the market hours on Tuesday. YES Bank vide newspaper publication dated January 20, 2024, had invited expression of Interest for sale of identified stressed loan exposures through auction under Swiss challenge method, being undertaken by the Bank in accordance with the provisions of Reserve Bank of India’s Master Direction on Transfer of Loan Exposures, 2021, said the lender's exchange filing. Subsequent…