Assam: Speeding train kills 3 elephants, toll rises to 8 in a month
Three wild elephants, including a calf, were killed after they were hit by a speeding train engine in Nagaon district of central Assam early on Saturday morning. The incident took place when the engine hit a herd of elephants crossing the railway tracks around 4:50am between Kampur and Jamunamukh stations located nearly 125km east of […]
Lt Gen Bipin Rawat appointed army chief, Air Marshal BS Dhanoa is new air force chief
Lt Gen Bipin Rawat was named India’s next army chief on Saturday, as the government abandoned a three-decades-old tradition of elevating senior-most officers as military chiefs. It, however, stuck to the practice in elevating vice chief air marshal BS Dhanoa – a Kargil war veteran – as the next head of the Indian Air Force. […]
Govt asks tax cheats to come clean by March 2017, sets up email for black money tip-offs
The government on Friday said tax dodgers have time until 2017 March-end to come clean under a scheme unveiled by finance minister Arun Jaitley in November. Revenue secretary Hasmukh Adhia told reporters that those who fail to declare their untaxed income under the scheme will have to pay minimum 77% and up to 100% in tax and […]
Waive farmers’ loans as soon as possible, Rahul Gandhi tells PM Narendra Modi
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi went to ask Prime Minister Narendra Modito waive farmers’ loans. What the PM gave his fierce opponent was a somewhat seismic suggestion, at least for these fractious times – that they should meet more regularly, PTI reported. This surprising interaction came days after Rahul claimed he had information about […]
Cyclone ‘Vardah’ likely to hit Tamil Nadu, Andhra today; navy on alert
The severe cyclonic storm Vardah is likely to make a landfall between Andhra Pradesh’s Nellore and Tamil Nadu’s Chennai by Monday afternoon and cause heavy rainfall in the region. According to Cyclone Warning Centre (CWC), Visakhapatnam, the cyclonic storm lay centred at around 390km south-east of Nellore and 330km east of Chennai by Sunday evening. […]
Will end ‘gundaraj’ in Uttar Pradesh if elected to power: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised on Sunday to defeat corruption and nab illegal cash hoarders in three months, accusing opposition parties of trying to crush the “truth” by stalling Parliament over the scrapping of high-value currency. Speaking at a rally in western UP’s Bahraich district though a mobile phone, the prime minister said the BJP […]
Plastic Currency Notes Coming Soon, Government Says In Parliament
NEW DELHI: Government today informed Parliament that a decision has been taken to print plastic currency notes and procurement of material has started. “It has been decided to print banknotes based on plastic or polymer substrate. The process of procurement has been initiated,” Minister of State for Finance Arjun Ram Meghwal said in a written […]
Former IAF Chief SP Tyagi Arrested By CBI In AugustaWestland Chopper Scam
NEW DELHI: Former Air Force Chief SP Tyagi was arrested today over alleged irregularities in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal worth 3,700 crores. He was arrested along with his cousin Sanjeev Tyagi and lawyer Gautam Khaitan after hours of questioning. The former air chief has been accused of abusing his official position by corrupt means. […]
Jayalalithaa funeral sees two departures from tradition
Jayalalithaa’s body was buried instead of being cremated, going against Vaishnavite Brahminical tradition Her friend Sasikalaa Natarajan, led the former chief minister’s nephew Deepak Jayakumar in performing the final rites CHENNAI: The funeral ceremony of Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday was a departure from tradition in two aspects. First, Jayalalithaa’s body was […]
50 chartered planes to ferry VVIPs to Nagpur for Gadkari’s daughter’s wedding
Over 10,000 guests, most of them VVIPs like Union home minister Rajnath Singh, BJP president Amit Shah, industrialists Mukesh Ambani and Ratan Tata, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, Union ministers and chief ministers, will be flown to the city in 50 charter flights on Sunday evening. The reason — the wedding of Union minister Nitin […]
Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa suffers cardiac arrest, back in critical care unit
Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa was readmitted to the critical care unit (CCU) of Chennai’s Apollo Hospital after she suffered a cardiac arrest on Sunday evening. Her condition stabilised later, sources said, but anxious supporters rushed to the hospital and broke through police barricades. The 68-year-old AIADMK supremo was readmitted to the CCU shortly […]
Income tax department keeping an eye on all suspect money trails, warns finance ministry
NEW DELHI: Giving a stern warning to those who were converting black money into white, the finance ministry on Friday said that the trails were being watched by the income tax officials and a coordinated action was underway. “Those indulging in or colluding with money laundering or converting black money into white+ will not be […]
Army proves Mamata Banerjee wrong, releases letters informing West Bengal government of exercise
NEW DELHI: The Indian Army proved the Trinamool government wrong on Friday, inthe raging controversy+ over its exercise in West Bengal. The Army released four letters it had written to different authorities in the West Bengal government to inform them of the exercise and request their cooperation. The letters the Army released clearly show acknowledgements […]
Demonetisation protests across India, but Opposition divided over bandh
The Centre’s demonetisation exercise has brought a rarely seen unity among opposition parties in Parliament, but they appear divided over the way they will protest against the measure on Monday. The Left Front is intent on making its 12-hour West Bengal bandh to protest the scrapping of high-value banknotes a success, while the Trinamool Congress-led […]
RSS’ vision of humanity’s development will be vision of India in future: Bhagwat
RSS’s vision, which is for the development of humanity, will be the vision of the country in future, the organisation’s chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Sunday. Addressing the volunteers in Bhilwara, Bhagwat said that RSS’s vision was for the overall development of humanity and the world and this was going to the be the vision […]
All measures being taken to ease citizens’ pain: RBI guv Urjit Patel on note ban
RBI governor Urjit Patel has said the central bank was taking necessary actions to “ease the genuine pain of citizens” in the wake of the government’s demonetisation move, breaking his silence on the decision to scrap high-value banknotes about a fortnight ago. In an interview to PTI, Patel said the central bank was monitoring the […]
Time to transport cash to banks cut from 21 to 6 days
NEW DELHI: The government has managed to cut down the transportation time of cash from printing to the main distribution centres from 21 days to six and is using all modes of transport, including helicopters and Indian Air Force planes, to move the cash quickly. The government is hopeful that the situation will improve over […]
NIA raids Zakir Naik’s premises; blocks website
MUMBAI: The NIA carried out searches at 17 premises of controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, his NGO and a few associates for the third consecutive day on Monday, even as it blocked the website of outlawed Islamic Research Foundation founded by him. The anti-terror investigation agency is also set to summon Naik, who is abroad […]
Deposits, withdrawals, and purchases post-demonetisation: Who’s allowed to do what
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the currency ban on November 8, there have been restrictions on withdrawals from ATMs, and on deposits of defunct notes in banks. However, the government has announced some exceptions in the 13 days that have passed since demonetisation was implemented. Here’s a useful guide that will help you understand […]
Karnataka minister Tanveer Sait files complaint against reporter who had filmed him watching porn
BENGALURU: Karnataka primary and secondary education minister Tanveer Saithas lodged a complaint against a journalist and his cameraman, who shot a video of him purportedly watching sleazy pictures on his cellphone at a Tipu Jayanti function in Raichur, about 450 km from Bengaluru. “Based on the minister’s complaint, we’ve registered a case against the TV […]
