Demonetisation: SC asks Centre to give genuine cases ‘another chance’
New Delhi: In a big relief to all those who are bearing the brunt of demonetisation, the Supreme Court on Tuesday rapped the Centre and asked them to give another chance to "genuine people to deposit old notes". The Centre has...
Liquor Ban: Nothing wrong in denotifying highways within cities, says Supreme Court
File Pic New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday made a significant observation with respect to the ban on liquor vends on highways. The court said that there was nothing wrong in states denotifying highways within the city to avoid...
Woman allowed to go in for abortion in 26th week of pregnancy by Supreme Court
New Delhi/Nagpur: The Supreme Court of India on Monday permitted a woman, in her 26th week of pregnancy, to abort her foetus though such 'late abortion' is prohibited by current abortion laws. The Justice Dipak Misra and M Khanwilkar bench directed...
‘Insensitive’ Centre must roll back ‘disability tax’ under GST: Rahul Gandhi
File Pic New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Friday called on the 'insensitive' Centre to roll back the 'disability tax' under the Goods and Services Tax regime, stressing that it would lead the disabled people through further hardship. "Congress...
India’s action a betrayal, border well-demarcated: China
File Pic Sikkim: China today said the Sino-India border in the Sikkim sector is well demarcated and the Indian Army's action there is a "betrayal" of the position taken by successive Indian governments. "Former Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru endorsed the...
Supreme Court stays criminal contempt proceedings against Arundhati Roy at Nagpur High Court
File Pic New Delhi/Nagpur: The Supreme Court today stayed criminal contempt proceedings against award winning author and activist Arundhati Roy. The proceedings were initiated suo motu by the Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court in 2015 taking cognisance of her...
Terrorists Attack Police Party in Anantnag, 1 Policeman Critically Injured
Srinagar: One policeman was critically injured after terrorists attacked a police party near a bus stand in Anantnag on Monday. While earlier reports said that the policeman was martyred, the police later issued a clarification saying that the policeman who...
Swamy wants to pray inside Ram Janmabhoomi temple, SC to hear matter today
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will today hear the plea filed by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy, seeking its intervention in the Ram Janmabhoomi issue. Swamy sought permission to perform puja in the temple. On March 31, the apex court...
KK Venugopal takes charge as Attorney General
New Delhi: KK Venugopal takes over as the next Attorney General of India. To his left. is former Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi. The decision to appoint 86-year-old Venugopal as the successor of Rohatgi was discussed before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's...
India again asks Pak to provide consular access to Kulbhushan Jadav
New Delhi: India today again asked Pakistan to grant full and early consular access to its national Kulbhushan Jadav, sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court as the two countries exchanged a list of prisoners lodged in each other's...
Have not violated any law or insulted the army: Azam Khan
New Delhi: After a total of three complaints were filed on Saturday against Azam Khan over his controversial remark on the Indian Army, the Samajwadi Party leader asserted that he has not violated any law or not insulted any army. "Whatever...
Jharkhand lynching: Muslim women threaten to take up arms against cow vigilantes
Ramgarh: The mob lynching of a Muslim trader in Jharkhands Ramgarh two days ago has sent ripples of anger through the local population with women of the community saying they would pick up arms against self-styled cow protectors. The women say...
Top LeT commander killed in encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district
File Pic Anantnag: Two terrorists, including a top Lashkar-e-Tayiba commander, were killed after an hours-long standoff with security forces in Dailgam village in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district Earlier in the day, security forces launched cordon and search operations in the...
Cow vigilantism: Adityanath urges people not to take law into their hands
File Pic Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has urged the people to not to take the law into their hands in the name of cow vigilantism, adding that they should just inform the administration in any case of...
GST Launched: India Gets a New Tax Regime
New Delhi/Nagpur: At the stroke of the midnight hour, India launched its ambitious pan-India indirect tax regime, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) to bind the country into a regime of "one nation, one tax, one market". The roll-out was done...
UP Minister Ramapati Shastri embarrasses Yogi govt, doesn’t know GST full form
Lucknow: In a huge embarrassment for Yogi Adityanath-led UP Government, a Cabinet Minister failed to spell out the full form of GST, which is scheduled to be rolled out at midnight today. Social Welfare, Scheduled Castes and Tribal Affairs minister Ramapati...
Why so much fuss about GST launch, all parties passed it : NCP
New Delhi: Congress ally, NCP, hits out at the party over its decision to boycott the GST launch. The NCP has remained non-committal over its participation, but the party's senior leader Praful Patel's tweet could be read as its intent...
Govt calls Ramgarh lynching ‘barbaric’, but says no religious angle
Ramgarh: The government condemned on Friday the lynching of a 45-year-old Muslim meat trader in Jharkhand. The man was lynched for allegedly carrying beef and died as a result of his injuries. The government condemned the incident but said there was...
IndiGo expresses interest in buying stake in Air India
New Delhi: Private airline IndiGo has expressed interest in buying a stake in the national debt-laden carrier, Air India, TV reports say. The Union Cabinet yesterday gave an in-principle approval for disinvestment of Air India.Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, while addressing...
Man dies after being hit by rock enroute Amarnath yatra
Srinagar: A community kitchen operator died today after getting hit on the head by a rock at Brarimarg on Baltal route to the cave shrine of Amarnath, taking the death toll in this year's yatra to two. Bhushan Kotwal (47), a...
Know how to Link your Aadhar with Pan Card
New Delhi: The government has made it mandatory to link existing Aadhaar numbers with PAN of taxpayers with effect from July 1. Amending income tax rules and notifying the same, the government has made quoting of the 12-digit biometric Aadhaar or...
