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11 dead after consuming spurious liquor in UP’s Aligarh

8:10 pm May 28, 2021

Aligarh (UP): Eleven people died on Friday and some more were taken ill after allegedly consuming spurious liquor sold by a licensed vendor here, a senior official said. Taking note of the incident, the authorities ordered a magisterial probe and suspend three excise officials. The inquiry will be conducted by an additional district magistrate-rank officer, […]

Tata Group acquires majority stake in BigBasket

8:06 pm May 28, 2021

New Delhi: Tata Group has acquired a majority stake in online grocery seller BigBasket for an undisclosed sum of money, pitting it against the likes of billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance and Amazon. The stake was bought by Tata Digital Ltd, a unit of Tata Sons, a joint statement by the two firms said on Friday. […]

Transgender’s plea for passport: HC seeks Centre stand

8:00 pm May 28, 2021

New Delhi: Aggrieved by non-issuance of a passport by the authorities with a change in name and gender, a transgender person moved the Delhi High Court for issuance of the travel document with the requisite changes. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued notice to the Ministry of External […]

138 litres of liquor seized from train, accused missing

7:57 pm May 28, 2021

Mangaluru: Officials of the Excise department and the railway police on Friday confiscated 138.75 litres of liquor being illegally transported in a train here on Friday, sources said. The liquor bottles were seized from the Dadar- Tirunelveli express train at the Mangaluru railway station, the Excise Department sources said. The accused, suspected to be the […]

EC defers Kerala Rajya Sabha bypoll over Covid 2nd wave

7:50 pm May 28, 2021

New Delhi: Citing the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Election Commission Friday decided to defer a proposed Rajya Sabha bypoll for a seat from Kerala. The Commission said that Kerala Congress (M) leader Jose K Mani had resigned as a Rajya Sabha member from Kerala on January 11 this year. His term in […]