A former bureaucrat turned politician puts the spin on the demonetization narrative. Black money is like a chameleon. Its multiple forms — in cash, real estate and gold, in tax havens, shell companies and benami properties — make its detection difficult. That is why when asked the reason for frequently changing goalposts after demonetisation, Prime […]
Patna/Bhagalpur: As the investigation on the ‘Toilet Scam’, locally known as the ‘Srijan scam’ hots up, the CBI filed chargesheets in two more cases. The scam involved fraudulent transfer of over Rs 1,000 crore from the accounts of the Bhagalpur district administration to those of Srijan Mahila Vikas Sahyog Samiti Limited, an NGO based in […]
Patna (Bihar) :The Patna police special investigation team (SIT), who are investigating the ‘multi-crore toilet construction scam’ arrested a senior official of State Bank of India from Buxar on November 9, for his connivance with the scamsters. The members of the SIT visited Buxar and took Shiv Shankar Jha, deputy manager of the bank, into […]
Lucknow: Allahabad High Court has directed the removal of a 58 year old mosque called ‘Waqf Masjid High Court’ from its premises within three months for encroachment and asked the state government to delete the words “high court” from the name in all documents. The court directed its registrar-general to ensure that in future, no […]
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 […]
Kolkata :The West Bengal government has written to the Centre, putting on record the suffering of small industries due to the hurried implementation of the GST, says a PTI report. West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra, in a letter to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has pointed out the hardship of small traders, particularly those […]
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 […]
Kohima, (Nagaland) Nov 7 : ‘Hooray Hooray, It’s a Happy Holiday’. Popular German vocal group Boney M will perform here on December 10 at the Hornbill festival. Making the announcement during a press conference at Rattle and Hum here, Convenor of Nagaland Outdoors Club (NOC) Kethosituo Elvis Mepfuo said Boney M would feature the band […]
Ahmedabad: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday dubbed the Centre’s much touted bullet train project, an “exercise in vanity”. He said the government’s “priorities are misplaced” as it should have focused on the existing passenger rail network. Addressing a party event for the business community in Gujarat, the Congress leader pointed out that the […]
Martyred Indian Sister Rani Maria Vattalil, who was slain by an assassin 22 years ago in central India was proclaimed a ‘Blessed’ at a beatification ceremony at the start of a Holy Mass in Indore, Madhya Pradesh state on Saturday, Nov. 4. The nun belonging to the Franciscan Clarist Congregation was 41 when Samandar Singh, […]
Ranchi: The Jharkhand government has given its approval for production of 20 films, says a PTI report. The approval was given on the recommendation of members of the technical committee of the Jharkhand Film Development Corporation (JFDC). Of the 20 films approved for production in the state, four Santhali films, three films each in Nagpuri, […]
The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) has expressed its apprehension that the imposition of the Aadhaar card or UID number in Nagaland would be a threat to the Naga customary law and identity. The apex students’ body in the north-eastern state, in a memorandum submitted to Chief Minister T R Zeliang yesterday, said, “Special provisions granted […]
