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NDTV loan case: Delhi court accepts CBI closure report

New Delhi, Jan 23 (PTI) A Delhi court on Thursday accepted a closure report filed by the CBI in an alleged case of irregularities by the ICICI Bank in accepting loan repayment from NDTV, saying “it appeared to be satisfactory”. Special judge Shailender Malik accepted the closure report after going through the report, and the submissions made by the CBI, and the complainant in the case, who said he did not want to file any “protest petition” as he was satisfied with the investigation. The CBI filed the closure report before a special court last year, after its six-year-long probe

Screen breaks and the right desk setup offer relief from work-related eye strain

NEW YORK, January 23, 2025 (AP) — The trouble started every day at around 3 p.m., after Cathy Higgins had spent five or six hours staring at an array of computer screens at her desk. Her university job overseeing research projects involved peering closely at numbers and details on contracts, applications and budgets. “My vision was so blurry, I couldn’t even see what was on the screen, and I was squinting so much that I could not function,” Higgins said. When her eyesight got bad, Higgins walked around and spoke with members of her staff. She began planning in-person meetings

Turkey’s central bank lowers benchmark interest rate to 45%

ANKARA, Turkey, January 23, 2025 (AP) — Turkey’s central bank lowered its key interest rate by 2.5 percentage points to 45% on Thursday, in its second rate cut in as many months as official figures showed inflation was easing. The bank’s Monetary Policy Committee said it was reducing its benchmark one-week repo rate to 45% from the current 47.5%. In its previous reduction in December, the bank also cut the rate by 2.5 percentage points. Despite the significant rate cut, the central bank reaffirmed its commitment to controlling soaring inflation which has left many households in Turkey struggling to afford

US judge to hear states’ bid to block Trump birthright citizenship order

SEATTLE, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Four Democratic-led states will urge a federal judge in Seattle on Thursday to block U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing the Republican’s executive order curtailing the right to automatic birthright citizenship in the United States. Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour is scheduled to hear arguments on a request by Democratic state attorneys general from Washington, Arizona, Illinois and Oregon for a temporary restraining order that would prevent Trump’s administration from carrying out a key component of his immigration crackdown. That executive order, which Trump signed on Monday after taking office, directs U.S. agencies

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