Chennai, Nov 9: (PTI) Income Tax sleuths carried out simultaneous multi-city raids on 187 premises including those linked to sidelined AIADMK leaders V K Sasikala and her nephew T T V Dhinakaran and Tamil television channel Jaya TV over suspected tax evasion. Dhinakaran, the deposed AIADMK deputy general secretary, condemned as a “conspiracy” the searches […]
New Delhi, Nov. 8: The Central Bureau of Investigation has apprehended a Class XI student in connection with the killing of a seven-year-old schoolboy in Gurgaon’s Ryan International School, the agency said on Wednesday. The Class XI student, who was apprehended late on Tuesday night, allegedly committed the crime as he wanted to get a […]
New Delhi: Entire Delhi is unauthorised, an anguished High Court remarked today ( November 7) while hearing a plea regarding the ongoing demolition at Kathputli colony in west Delhi. The observation was made by a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar when an NGO representing some residents of the […]
The whole propaganda unleashed by the BJP is reflective of the pattern of their politics, says Ram Puniyani, writer and peace activist. Are the leaders of India’s ‘new dispensation on a spree to undermine the values of the Constitution of India? What is pseudo-patriotism and pseudo-nationalism? Earlier this year, BJP President Amit Shah had launched […]
The stupid things that grown people do for ‘love’ or rejection! This businessmen put an entire plane load of passengers into inconvenience and trouble because of his stupid prank. A Mumbai businessman was arrested on Monday for carrying out a hijack threat on an early morning Mumbai-Delhi Jet Airways flight. The flight was diverted to […]
The government has turned down Uttarakhand cadre IPS officer Anju Gupta’s proposal for granting permanent secondment in the Research and Analysis Wing on the grounds that already a large number of officers at the joint secretary-level posted in the external intelligence agency have been granted extension. Gupta, earlier in the Uttar Pradesh cadre, was among […]
Looking for a true Indian patriot, a real ‘desh-bhakt’? Meet Ayub Ahmed, from Mysore (Mysuru) in Karnataka. He is also known as ‘Body Miyan’, and has been voluntarily burying unidentified and unclaimed corpses for the past 19 years. Shifting unidentified and unclaimed bodies is certainly no enviable work, but to do this as an act […]
Last week, the Kerala High Court severely criticized the recent trend of terming inter-religious marriages as ‘Love Jihad’. The court made these observations in its verdict passed on the petition filed by Anees Hameed seeking to release his Hindu wife Sruthi from the illegal custody of her father. A Division Bench of the Kerala High […]
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday hinted it would be open to review its order mandating the playing of the National Anthem in cinema halls, observing that “one does not have to wear patriotism on sleeves all the time and moral policing needs to be stopped”. But the bench said the area of regulation […]
Bank customers are being bombarded by ominous messages, emails and calls from banks about the dire consequences they could face if they fail to link their Aadhaar number to their bank accounts before the December 31 deadline. Tn June, the government had issued a notification amending the Prevention of Money Laundering (Maintenance of Record) Rules, […]
Now homophobia is becoming visible and violent in Delhi and its suburbs, if this incident can be taken seriously. Some observers say that there is an undercurrent of hate being generated for LGBT groups because they are not naturally sympathetic to the patriarchal, right wing agendas of fundamentalist religious-political alliances. New Delhi, Oct 3 (PTI) […]
Washington: On the eve of World Peace Day, (and on the occasion of the Jewish observance of Yom Kippur) Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg publicly apologised for the social-media platform’s negative effects and asked for forgiveness for his work that was used to divide people rather than uniting them. Zuckerberg, 33, did not mention any specific […]
