Bangalore, 17/5: The Karnataka State Election Commission on Tuesday told the High Court of Karnataka that the state government had taken away its powers making it unable to hold elections to Zilla Panchayat and Taluk Panchayats as mandated by the Supreme Court. A vacation division bench of the High Court comprising Justice SG Pandit…
New Delhi, 17/5: The Centre on Tuesday announced relaxation to its order restricting wheat exports. “It’s been decided that wherever wheat consignments have been handed over to Customs for examination and registered into their systems on or prior to May 13, such consignments would be allowed for export,” the government said in an order….
New Delhi,17/5: After the CBI conducted searches at premises linked to him and Karti, Congress leader P Chidambaram said that the search team found nothing and seized nothing. He pointed out that the ‘timing of the search is interesting’.
New Delhi, 17/5: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to interrogate Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee and his wife in Kolkata instead of Delhi in a money-laundering probe linked to an alleged coal scam in West Bengal.
Mumbai, 17/5:Shares in state-owned Life Insurance Corp of India (LIC) had a tepid debut on Tuesday listing at Rs 867.20 — a 9 per cent discount to the IPO price of Rs 949. LIC shares were trading at Rs 872 in pre-open trade. The government had fixed the issue price of LIC shares…
Mumbai, 17/5:The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is conducting searches at nine locations linked to senior Congress leader P Chidambaram and his son Karti across Mumbai, Chennai, Odisha, Punjab and Karnataka. The searches are being conducted in connection with a case against his son Karti Chidambaram. The allegations are that Karti took illegal…
New Delhi, 16/5: The Indian Army’s Eastern command chief on Monday said China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is engaged in infrastructure capacity enhancement across the international border in Arunachal Pradesh. General Officer Commanding-in Chief of the Eastern command, Lt Gen R P Kalita, however, said the Indian side is also continuously upgrading its…
Colombo, 16/5: Crisis-hit Sri Lanka has run out of petrol and is unable to find dollars to finance essential imports, the new prime minister said Monday in an address to the nation. “We have run out of petrol… At the moment, we only have petrol stocks for a single day,” Ranil Wickremesinghe said,…
Bengaluru, 16/5: The Karnataka government has appointed IAS officer C H Pratap Reddy as the Commissioner of Police in Bengaluru. Reddy, a 1991 batch officer, was the Additional Director of Police, Law and Order, before this stint. He replaces Kamal Pant, who is designated as DGP Recruitment
Bhubaneswar, 16/5:The Odisha Mining Corporation has launched several projects to promote education in presence of Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik on its 67th foundation day. The foundation day was celebrated at Convention Centre in Lok Seva Bhawan. The Chief Minister launched the OMC Anthem on the occasion. It signed an MoU with Odisha Adarsha…
