All seven Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLAs in Nagaland joined the ruling Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP), giving the Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio-led party an absolute majority in the 60-member assembly.With this merger, the NDPP’s tally increased from 25 to 32. NCP emerged as the third-largest party in the 2023 assembly elections, after the NDPP…
Portugal’s centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) won the Sunday’s snap parliamentary election but once again fell short of securing an outright majority. The result means the country will likely continue to face political uncertainty, as no single party commands enough support to govern alone. The centre-left Socialist Party and the far-right Chega party were locked in…
A US federal judge in Georgia has ordered the temporary restoration of SEVIS (Student and Exchange Visitor Information System) records for 133 international students. These students, mostly from India, sued after the cancellation of their visas and termination of SEVIS records by the US Department of State (DOS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Government…
Ahmedabad-based Torrent Group announced on Monday the successful acquisition of a 67% controlling stake in the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Gujarat Titans. The majority stake was purchased from Irelia Company Pte Ltd, a private equity fund managed by CVC Capital Partners, which previously held full ownership of Gujarat Titans through Irelia Sports India Pvt…
DAYTONA BEACH: The vision of his true NASCAR future crystalized for Jimmie Johnson at last year’s season finale. He climbed into his Toyota at Phoenix for his ninth, nondescript race of the season when he spotted them on pit road, the corporate bigwigs on their way to a suite where Johnson should have been schmoozing…
NEW DELHI: Ahmedabad-based Torrent Group is all set to acquire around two-third stake of Indian Premier League franchise Gujarat Titans from CVC Capital Partners, an Economic Times report said on Tuesday. The transaction is expected to value around Rs 7,500 crore ($856 million) with both parties currently in the process of seeking approval from the…
Activists of Hindu Jagaran Mancha participate in a rally to protest over arrest of Chinmoy Krishna Das by the Bangladesh police, in Kolkata (File photo: PTI) Majority of the attacks on minorities in Bangladesh that took place since Sheikh Hasina’s ouster were ‘not communally motivated — rather, they were political in nature’, according to a…
NEW DELHI: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Friday cleared billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla-promoted UltraTech Cement’s proposal to acquire a majority stake in India Cements. “The proposed combination envisages UltraTech Cement Ltd’s (UltraTech/acquirer) acquisition of 32.72 per cent of the paid-up equity share capital of India Cements Ltd (India Cements/target) from the promoters and…