Bombay (Mumbai) Sixty six year old veteran actor Om Puri, who gave countless memorable performances in movies of diverse genres, died at his home this morning after a massive heart attack (6 Jan). “He passed away this morning due to a massive heart attack at his residence in suburban Andheri. It’s shocking,” a family source […]
New Delhi: Is all this shoving the country towards a cashless economy really safe? That’s the question thrown up by a Parliamentary Standing Committee. Is data transfer on these new ‘pockets’ and ‘wallets applications really safe, or will new users find that their bank accounts are broken into by hackers? Do we have proper laws […]
New Delhi: Isn’t a man who has sex with his ‘under 18’ wife guilty of statutory rape? POSCO says yes, the Indian Penal Code says ‘no’. The Supreme Court asks the government to step up to the slate and make its position clear! Can sex with wife, who is above 15 and below 18 years […]
Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu announced a Rs 100-crore reward for the first Nobel laureate to emerge from his state (January 4). The money is 14 times the Nobel Prize value! He said this while inaugurating the Children’s Science Congress. The catch is that you would have to grow up to be an ‘Andhra […]
The Election Commission will deploy about 400 expenditure observers, drawn from the IRS and other central services, to check use of black money and other illegal inducements in the Assembly polls in five states, says a PTI report (Jan 4). 200 observers will be drawn from the Income Tax department stream of the Indian Revenue […]
Pune: Noted Marathi playwright and humorist late Ram Ganesh Gadkari’s statue installed in a garden here was vandalised in the early hours today( Jan 3) by a pro-Maratha group which alleged that Chhatrapati Shivaji’s son was projected in ‘poor light’ in one of Gadkari’s plays. Incidentally, Gadkari died 98 years ago on the 23rd of […]
Chennai: If the full facts related to the late CM Jayalalithaa’s death are revealed, Madras High Court threatens exhumation of body! Expressing doubts over the circumstances leading to death of former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, a Madras High Court judge indicated that he may order exhumation of the body after a plea before the court sought […]
New Delhi: In a bid to put a spin on things, the latest is from the Railway Ministry. In the aftermath of yet another major derailment, the Ministry has put out a statement admitting that theres a ‘slight’ increase in derailments. The PTI agency says the railways today (Dec 28) admitted that derailment cases have […]
New Delhi, Dec 28: This cash ban soap opera never ends the twists and turns ! The government has come up with a new rule once again! Two days before the deadline for depositing old 500 and 1,000 rupee notes expires, the Cabinet today approved promulgation of an Ordinance to make possession of a large […]
New Delhi, Dec 23: Communal issues cannot be raised in the garb of environmental concerns, the National Green Tribunal has said while junking a plea for banning the use of Christmas trees and prohibiting the making of Santa Claus costumes, reports PTI. Observers say that ever since 2014, ‘fringe’ rightwing groups have become emboldened and […]
Over Rs 3,185 crore of undisclosed income has been detected. Rs 86 crore worth new notes have been seized by the Income Tax department as part of its country-wide operations against black money hoarders since November 8. Official sources said the taxman carried out a total of 677 search, survey and enquiry operations under the […]
Kochi, Kerala: In a significant order, the Kerala High Court has permitted employment of women in foreign liquor retail shops terming as “unsustainable” and “violative of the Constitution” the state’s rules restraining women from such jobs (Dec 20). Such orders and rules “are violative of Article 14 and 15 of the Constitution and are therefore […]
