India

New Delhi: The resolution professional of debt-ridden Videocon Industries on Tuesday invited bids from prospective buyers to take control of the firm, which has interest ranging from consumer electronics to oil and gas. The corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) of Videocon Industries Ltd (VIL), which has debt of around Rs 20,000 crore, was commenced under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy

New Delhi, Sep 26: The Supreme Court Wednesday agreed to live-streaming and video recording of court proceedings. The apex court said that necessary rules for balancing rights of public and protecting dignity of litigants will be placed soon. "Sunlight is the best disinfectant", the bench said while allowing live streaming of court proceedings. Live-streaming of court proceedings will effectuate

Mumbai, Sep 26: Facebook's WhatsApp is working closely with Reliance Jio to spread awareness of false messages, weeks after the telecom operator opened up the messaging service to millions of customers using its cheap internet-enabled phone. Jio this month gave its more than 25 million JioPhone customers, many of them first-time internet users, access to WhatsApp at a time when the messaging

New Delhi, Sept 26: The Supreme Court Wednesday declared the Centre's flagship Aadhaar scheme as constitutionally valid. The apex court's five-judge Constitution bench said Aadhaar means unique and it is better to be unique than being best. The first of the three judgements was pronounced by Justice A K Sikri. Justice Sikri pronounced the judgement for himself, Chief Justice Dipak Misra and

New Delhi, Sep 26: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said its 2006 verdict putting benefits of quotas in job promotions for SC/ST employees need not be referred to seven-judge bench. The apex court also turned down the Centre's plea that overall population of SC/ST be considered for granting quota for them. The unanimous judgement was pronounced by a five-judge constitution bench. The court's verdict

Kolkata, Sep 26: Amidst sporadic violence, the BJP-sponsored 12-hour "Bangla Bandh" in protest against the killing of two students at Islampur in North Dinajpur evoked mixed response in the state. Official sources reported three government buses have been damaged due to stone throwing by the bandh protagonists in different parts of the state. The bandh supporters have taken out processions to

Bhopal, Sept 25: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday alleged that the Congress and other opposition parties were pursuing vote bank politics which had destroyed the country like "termites" over the last seven decades. Addressing a workers' meet in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, Modi attacked the Congress over the instant triple talaq issue. "The politics of vote bank has destroyed the country like

Shimla, Sept 25: Forty-five people, including 35 students from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, who had gone trekking in Himachal Pradesh's mountainous Lahaul and Spiti district are missing after heavy snowfall in the region, news agency ANI reported late on Monday. Rajvir Singh, father of one of the students, told ANI that the group had gone for trekking to the Hampta pass in Kullu and

Mumbai, Sept 25: Embattled liquor baron Vijay Mallya told a special court on Monday that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) "resisted" his efforts to settle his loans with public sector banks. Mallya, who is currently in the United Kingdom, has been charged by the ED of defaulting on bank loans to the tune of Rs 9,000 crore. Mallya, through his counsel, was replying in the PMLA court of Judge M S

Chennai, Sept 25: BJP's Tamil Nadu unit President Tamilisai Soundararjan on Monday said she has 'nominated' Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Nobel Peace Prize for launching the "world's largest" health scheme. Her husband, Professor Dr P Soundarajan, Head of Department and Senior Consultant in Nephrology at a private university, has also nominated Modi for Nobel, a press release from the state