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  Nepal Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak resigns after protests leave 19 dead, cites moral responsibility

  World | September 08, 2025 23:57 IST

  Violent protests erupted in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, and other areas on Monday over the government's decision to ban social media. The protests prompted the government to deploy the army and additional forces and issue shoot-at-sight orders, which ultimately led to the death of 19 people.

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  UK Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner resigns over tax controversy following home purchase inquiry

  World | September 05, 2025 18:00 IST

  UK Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner resigned after an inquiry found she breached ethical standards over a £40,000 stamp duty shortfall on her recent property purchase, triggering a leadership shake-up in the Labour Party.

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  EaseMyTrip CEO Nishant Pitti resigns due to personal reasons, brother Rikant to take over

  Business | January 01, 2025 13:56 IST

  EaseMyTrip: The company was founded in 2008 by Nishant Pitti, Rikant Pitti, and Prashant Pitti. Easy Trip Planners is the parent company of online travel booking platform EaseMyTrip.

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  Akriti Chopra, Zomato co-founder, resigns with immediate effect after 13-year stint

  Business | September 27, 2024 23:19 IST

  Zomato co-founder and Chief Public Officer Akriti Chopra has resigned after a 13-year journey with the company. Her leadership played a pivotal role in Zomato's growth, and her exit marks a significant change for the company.

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  Scotland's Humza Yousaf resigns as country's leader amid fears of defeat in no-confidence motion

  World | April 29, 2024 17:51 IST

  With no prospect of victory, Yousaf quit rather than face defeat later this week when Scottish lawmakers were scheduled to vote on motions of no confidence in Yousaf and his government.

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  Ireland openly gay and Indian-origin PM says he will quit due to 'both personal, political' reasons'

  World | March 20, 2024 18:48 IST

  Varadkar was the country’s youngest-ever leader when first elected, as well as Ireland’s first openly gay prime minister. Varadkar, whose mother is Irish and father is Indian, was also Ireland’s first biracial taoiseach.

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  Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong resigns over allegations of violating party rules

  World | March 20, 2024 16:56 IST

  The government said in a statement Thuong violated party rules, adding that those "shortcomings had negatively impacted public opinion, affecting the reputation of the Party, State and him personally."

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  Telangana: Former deputy CM Thatikonda Rajaiah resigns from Bharat Rashtra Samithi

  February 03, 2024 16:58 IST

  Telangana news: In the 2023 assembly elections, the BRS fielded senior leader and former Deputy CM Kadiyam Srihari from the Ghanpur seat in place of Dr Thatikonda Rajaiah.

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  Harvard President Claudine Gay resigns over plagiarism allegations, antisemitism backlash

  World | January 03, 2024 6:49 IST

  Gay's academic career came under intense scrutiny after her controversial congressional testimony on calls on campus for the genocide of Jews. She became the first Black president of Harvard, making her tenure the shortest in the university's 388-year-old history.

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  Infosys President Ravi Kumar S resigns

  Business | October 11, 2022 23:30 IST

  In his role as president, Ravi Kumar S led the Infosys Global Services Organisation across all industry segments.

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  Bahujan Samyak Sangathan founder Preeta Harit resigns from Congress, says 'party ignoring issues'

  India | October 02, 2021 8:17 IST

  Harit joined Congress in March 2019. She is the founder of Bahujan Samyak Sangathan. Prior to joining Congress, Harit was serving as Principal Commissioner, Income Tax Department.

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  Amarinder made scapegoat for unfulfilled promises: SAD leader Dhindsa

  India | September 18, 2021 20:12 IST

  The whole drama was only to put the blame for the non-fulfillment of promises on Amarinder Singh, SAD leader Dhindsa said. 

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  Gujarat CM Rupani removed as the government failed during Covid: Congress leader Bharat Solanki

  India | September 11, 2021 16:47 IST

  The Congress leader alleged that it's a face-saving exercise by the BJP to divert people's attention and focus on the Prime Minister, as it cannot afford to contest elections on the basis of the performance of the state government.

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  Mahathir Mohamad resigns in Malaysian political upheaval

  World | February 24, 2020 14:32 IST

  Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad tendered his resignation to Malaysia's king Monday while his political party quit the ruling alliance in a shocking political upheaval less than two years after his election victory.

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  US State Department official resigns over inflated resume scandal

  World | November 19, 2019 13:27 IST

  Mina Chang was twice nominated by President Donald Trump's administration to serve as an assistant administrator of the US Agency for International Development, but her nomination was withdrawn in September after the Senate requested more documents supporting her work in the past.

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  Devidhan Tudu joins JMM after resigning from BJP

  November 13, 2019 19:23 IST

  Tudu had resigned from the post of saffron party's Pakur district president and primary membership on Monday,alleging that he was  "ignored" by the party

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  Lakshmi Vilas Bank's non-independent director resigns

  Business | November 02, 2019 15:29 IST

  A statement issued by Lakshmi Vilas Bank on Friday said: "Anuradha Pradeep (Non-Executive and Non-Independent Director) has resigned from the directorship of the bank on November 01, 2019."

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  Ashok Tanwar quits Congress, resigns from party's primary membership

  October 05, 2019 18:04 IST

  On October 3, a day after protesting outside Sonia Gandhi's residence over alleged irregularities in ticket distribution, Tanwar on Thursday resigned from all election committees of the party but said he would continue to work as an ordinary party worker.

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  Sidhu sends resignation to CM Amarinder

  India | July 15, 2019 13:47 IST

  Ending suspense, Punjab Cabinet Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday said he sent his resignation to Chief Minister Amarinder Singh.

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  Two Congress MLAs resign from Karnataka Assembly

  India | July 01, 2019 17:58 IST

  "I have resigned as Gokak legislator for being ignored by the party and the coalition government," MLA Ramesh Jarkiholi said.