President Mukherjee clears GST Bill, it’s now a law
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee gives nod to four supporting legislation related to Goods and Services Tax. On March 29, the Lok Sabha passed the four (supplementary) GST Bills that were tabled by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. It came in the...
1 slap on a jawan=100 jihadi lives: Gambhir warns Kashmir’s stone pelters
New Delhi: Known for his aggression on field, Kolkata Knight Riders captain Gautam Gambhir lashes out at stone pelters in Kashmir. Referring to the video clips of security personnel being roughed up, abused and jeered by mobs in Kashmir, which went...
AAP’s Delhi candidate loses deposit, MCD polls just 10 days away
New Delhi: Celebrations outside the counting centre at Rajouri as the BJP scored a massive win in the bypoll in west Delhi defeating its nearest rival Congress. BJP candidate Manjinder Singh Sirsa won by a margin of over 51 per...
Cracks appear in Congress over EVM tampering issue
Chandigarh: Even as the Opposition has presented a united front over the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) tampering issue in the past few days, there seems to be infighting and disunity amongst the Congress party members with some being against their...
2002 Gujarat riots probe: SC relieves SIT chief R K Raghavan
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today allowed R K Raghavan, who was heading the apex-court appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe 2002 Gujarat riots cases, to be relieved from the duty of heading the team. A bench comprising Chief...
Delhi bye-election result 2017: BJP wins Rajouri Garden seat, Congress second, AAP a dismal third
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party registered a victory in the Rajouri Garden bye-election in Delhi as counting of votes ended on Thursday. BJP candidate Manjinder Singh Sirsa won the Rajouri Garden bypoll by 14652 votes, defeating Congress candidate Meenakshi...
8-state bypolls: BJP leads in Delhi seat vacated by AAP, poor voting in J-K
New Delhi: Counting of votes for bypolls in 10 constituencies in eight states began at 8 am this morning. Delhi, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh results will be announced by noon. So far, the BJP is...
Re-polling begins in 38 booths of Srinagar
Srinagar: The re-polling ordered by Election Commission of India in 38 polling stations of Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency, where the bypoll on April 9 was marred by violence, began today amidst tight security arrangements. The polling began at 7 am and...
India’s retail inflation jumps to 3.65% in March
New Delhi: India's retail inflation rate rose to 3.81 per cent in March from February's 3.65 per cent, mirroring a revival in household spending after months of waning demand triggered by a demonetisation-induced cash crunch. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI),...
BJP’s ally in Goa wants complete ban on animal slaughter in the state
Goa: Headed to Goa for some beef bafad and a rave party? Heads up. The Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, a part of the BJP-led coalition govt in Goa, seeks complete ban on cow slaughter in the state. MGP leader and State Minister Sudin...
Dainik Bhaskar Group Chairman Ramesh Agarwal passes away
Ahmedabad: Ramesh Agarwal, Chairman of Dainik Bhaskar Group, passed away earlier today. He was 77 and passed away following a cardiac arrest. He breathed his last in Apollo Hospital, Ahmedabad. Agarwal is survived by three sons. Agarwal led the Dainik Bhaskar...
Open-ended warrant issued against Mallya
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday issued an open-ended non-bailable warrant against beleaguered businessman Vijay Mallya in a case of allegedly evading summons in a FERA violation matter. Chief metropolitan magistrate Sumit Dass passed the order after the Enforcement Directorate...
Dalai Lama’s Arunachal visit will impact territorial disputes with India: China
Beijing: The Chinese foreign ministry has said the Dalai Lama's visit to Arunachal Pradesh will negatively impact the settlement of territorial disputes with India. "We will take further action to safeguard China's sovereignty," the foreign ministry said on Dalai Lama's...
Self-certify bank accounts by April 30 or face closure: Govt
New Delhi: All bank account holders who opened accounts between July 1, 2014 and August 31, 2015 will have to submit self certification forms by April 30 this year. Failing this, account will be blocked, says a statement issued by...
Fuel prices to be revised every day in five cities from May 1: Sources
New Delhi: State-owned oil companies plan to implement daily revision of fuel price in five cities from May 1 ahead of a nationwide roll out of the scheme, industry sources said. To begin with, daily revision of fuel prices will be...
Yogi’s Hindu Vahini workers drag Hindu-Muslim couple to police station in Meerut
Meerut: In yet another incident of moral policing, Hindu Yuva Vahini activists on Wednesday barged into a couple's house in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut city and allegedly dragged the duo to a nearby police station on suspicion of ' love jihad'. The...
Income Tax department probes RSS leader’s firm for Rs 17 cr deposit after note ban
New Delhi: According to report published in Indian Express, the Income Tax department is investigating a clothing company owned by a top RSS leader in Delhi for alleged cash deposits of Rs 17 crore in scrapped notes of Rs 500...
Govt protecting cows, not women, angry Jaya Bachchan bats for Mamata
New Delhi: There was uproar in Parliament today over the bounty on West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. TMC MP Saugata Roy in the Lok sabha raised the issue of a BJP Youth leader issuing a bounty on Bannerjees head ...
Congress leader Akhilesh Das Gupta passes away after heart attack
Congress leader and former Union Minister Akhilesh Das Gupta passed away after suffering a heart attack on Wednesday, as reported by news agency. Akhilesh Das has been Minister of State for Steel in UPA-I, served as a mayor of Lucknow...
No proof of Syria using chemical weapons in Idlib: Putin
ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUAL COVERAGE OF SCENES OF INJURY OR DEATH A man carries the body of a dead child, after what rescue workers described as a suspected gas attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idlib,...
BJP youth wing leader offers Rs 11 lakh for Mamata Banerjee’s head
A Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha leader courted a controversy by announcing a reward of Rs 11 lakh for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's head, following a lathi-charge at Birbhum district to disperse a rally raising slogans of 'Jai Sri...
