Budget 2020 Big Announcements

Tax New/amended law to ensure taxpayers are not harassed Income tax cut to 10% from 20% for Rs 5-7.5 lakh band Income tax cut to 15% from 20% for Rs 7.5-10 lakh band Income tax cut to 20% from 30% for Rs 10-12.5 lakh...

Kunal Kamra sends legal notice to IndiGo

Stand comedian Kunal Kamra has issued a legal notice to Indigo which had suspended him from flying for a period of 6 months. IndiGo had suspended Kamra after he allegedly heckled journalist Arnab Goswami aboard one of its planes from Mumbai...

Maha college bans mobile phones to ‘boost student performance’

In a bid to improve students' focus on education, a women's college in Maharashtra's Aurangabad city has banned the use of mobile phones inside its campus. The move comes at a time when mobile phones have become an indelible part of...

Budget 2020 Highlight!

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her second budget on Saturday Feb 1 , below are the highlights. Saturday's Union budget, the third in a span of one year, will seek to kickstart an economy staring at the worst pace of expansion...

Sitharaman to present her 2nd budget shortly

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the budget of the second term of the Narendra Modi government today. This will also be the second budget for Sitharaman, who became the second woman finance minister after Indira Gandhi to do so in...

Delhi Polls: BJP Promises Wheat Flour at Rs 2 Per Kg, Clean Drinking Water to Every Household

New Delhi: The BJP on Friday released 'Delhi Sankalp Patra', its manifesto for Delhi Assembly polls, promising good quality wheat flour at Rs 2 per kg for the poor and supply of clean drinking water to every household. The document was...

Nirbhaya convicts’ hanging stayed

SC junks Pawan's review plea Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana passed the order on the plea by the convicts seeking adjournment of the executions 'sine die' (with no appointed date for resumption). Mukesh Kumar Singh, 32, Pawan Gupta, 25, Vinay Kumar Sharma,...

Nitin Gadkari launches special edition Khadi watches by Titan

Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday launched the limited edition of Khadi wrist watches manufactured as part of a joint initiative by the Khadi and Village Industries Commission and Titan.

Live from the Launch of Titan - Khadi...

IndiGo to start new flights to Shirdi, tickets from ₹2,112

Budget carrier IndiGo will start daily non-stop flights for Shirdi from Delhi and Chennai. The flight from Delhi to Shirdi will start from 5th February 2020 and with effect from 20th February, Indigo will start daily flights from Chennai to...

AI special plane to evacuate Indians from Wuhan

Air India's 423-seater jumbo B747 plane will depart from Delhi airport at 12.30 pm on Friday to evacuate 600 Indian nationals who are in China as the neighbouring country deals with novel Coronavirus outbreak. "The B747 plane is all set...

Jamia firing result of BJP’s slogans: Priyanka

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday said the Jamia firing incident is the result of Bharatiya Janata Party ministers and leaders inciting crowds with incendiary slogans and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to answer whether he stands with violence...

Man opens fire at Jamia protesters, 1 injured

An unknown person wielding a gun injured a student during an anti-CAA protest by the Jamia Coordination Committee. The person has been held by the police and his identity is being verified. The JCC organised the march against the Citizenship...

Budget: Opposition parties to meet on Feb 1

Opposition parties are likely to meet after the budget presentation on February 1 to evolve a joint strategy for the upcoming Parliament session starting on Friday. Various parties have already held their individual strategy meets for the budget session of...

SC to hear 3rd Nirbhaya convict’s plea today

The Supreme Court will today hear the curative petition of one of the four Nirbhaya gang-rape death row convicts, Akshay Thakur who is seeking commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment. A five-judge bench of the apex court, headed by...

AAP seeks 48-hour campaigning ban on Amit Shah

AAP has asked the Election Commission to impose a 48-hour campaigning ban on Union Home Minister Amit Shah for allegedly tweeting a "fake" video on Delhi government schools, party leader Sanjay Singh said on Wednesday. AAP leaders Singh and Pankaj...

Anurag Thakur, Parvesh banned from campaigning

The Election Commission has removed MoS Finance Anurag Thakur and BJP MP Parvesh Sharma from the BJP's list of campaigners for the upcoming Delhi Assembly polls. The Election Commission yesterday had issued a show-cause notice to the Union minister and...

SC rejects Nirbhaya convict’s curative plea

New Delhi: The Supreme Court dismisses the plea of death row convict Mukesh Singh against the rejection of his mercy petition by the president. The court said the relevant records, verdict of trial court, the high court and the apex...

3 Maha districts got more funds last year, others less: Pawar

Mumbai/Nagpur : Nagpur, Chandrapur and Sindhudurg were allotted higher District Planning Committee Scheme funds to the tune of Rs 651 crore in 2019-20 by the then Maharashtra government after curtailing money of some of other districts, state Deputy Chief Minister...

Sharjeel Imam arrested in Bihar for sedition

Sharjeel Imam has been arrested from Jehanabad in Bihar on sedition charges for saying Assam should be separated from India. The police had raided Imam's ancestral home on Sunday night after "help was sought by central agencies". Said to be...

Nirbhaya convict moves SC on Prez plea dismissal

Death row convict in the 2012 Nirbhaya murder and gang rape case Mukesh Kumar Singh on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking urgent hearing on his plea against dismissal of his mercy petition by the President. The 32-year-old convict's mercy...