Day: July 8, 2020

Rishi Sunak offers furlough bonus, dine-out discounts to save jobs

8:54 pm July 8, 2020

London: UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak on Wednesday announced a ‘mini-budget’ that includes a bonus scheme for employers who bring furloughed or forced leave staff back to work as part of a major drive to save jobs hit by the coronavirus pandemic shutdown. As part of his Summer Economic Update in Parliament, dubbed a mini-Budget, […]

Gujarat to form panel to decide ‘real’ tribals of Gir forest

8:51 pm July 8, 2020

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government has decided to set up a commission under a retired High Court judge to decide “real beneficiaries” who are entitled to be considered as Scheduled Tribes of Gir, Barda and Alech forest areas of the Saurashtra region. The announcement to set up the five-member commission was made by Forest and Tribal Development Minister Ganpat Vasava on Tuesday in Gandhinagar after a […]

Militants open fire at security forces in J-K's Shopian

Woman killed, three injured in Pak shelling along LoC in J-K

8:44 pm July 8, 2020

Jammu/Srinagar: A 65-year-old woman was killed and three other civilians were injured on Wednesday as Pakistan violated ceasefire by resorting to unprovoked mortar shelling on forward posts and villages along the Line of Control (LoC) in different sectors in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. While the elderly woman was killed in heavy shelling by Pakistan […]

Nirav Modi faces suicide risk, politically biased trial in India, UK court told

Nirav’s assets worth Rs 329 cr first in nation to be confiscated under fugitive eco offenders law

8:24 pm July 8, 2020

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday said it has confiscated assets worth Rs 329.66 crore of diamond merchant Nirav Modi under the fugitive economic offenders law. This is the first confiscation of assets order issued under the law that was brought by the Modi government in 2018 with an aim to deter economic offenders from evading the […]

In UK libel case, Depp denies hitting ex-wife Amber Heard

8:21 pm July 8, 2020

London: Johnny Depp denied hitting ex-wife Amber Heard in a jealous rage, dangling her tiny dog out a car window and being a Jekyll-and-Hyde monster, as he was cross-examined for a second day Wednesday by a lawyer for British tabloid The Sun. The newspaper is defending a libel claim after calling the Hollywood star a “wife beater.” […]