Kolkata, 13/4: BJP’s Purulia MP Jyotirmay Singh Mahato has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah urging the Centre to declare select bordering districts of West Bengal as “disturbed areas” under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), alleging repeated attack on Hindu community. In his letter dated April 13, Mahato alleged that districts such…
New Delhi, 13/4: Accusing the government of “looting” people by increasing excise duty on petrol and diesel, the Congress on Sunday called for fixing accountability and demanded that the CAG should audit how government policies benefited private companies. The Opposition party also demanded that the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)…
Washington/Florida, 13/4: US President Donald Trump’s administration granted exclusions from steep reciprocal tariffs to smartphones, computers and some other electronics imported largely from China, providing a big break to tech firms like Apple that rely on imported product. In a notice to shippers, the US Customs and Border Protection agency published a list of tariff…
Mullapur, 12/4: PBKS set a huge target of 246 runs for SRH at the IPL match on Saturday.Punjab had won the toss and chose to bat . Shreyas Iyer bated beautifully and slammed a half century. Marcus Stoinis has given a superb cameo.Harshal Patel took 4 wickets.
New Delhi, 12/4: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday said it has initiated the process of taking possession of National Herald House in Delhi, Nehru Bhavan in Lucknow and Herald House in Mumbai in connection with the money laundering case against Congress-controlled Associated Journals Limited (AJL), which publishes National Herald. The agency claimed that its…
New Delhi, 12/4: : The Enforcement Directorate Saturday said it has issued notices to take possession of immovable assets worth Rs 661 crore that it had attached in probe into the money laundering case against Congress-controlled Associated Journals Limited . The federal probe agency said in a statement that it has affixed these notices at…
New Delhi, 12/4: Unified Payments Interface (UPI) users across India took to socal media on Saturday to complain about the service being down. This is the third time in less than a fortnight that UPI witnessed outages impacting transactions. In the recent past, UPI outage reported March 26 and April 2.
New Delhi, 12/2: For the first time, the Supreme Court has prescribed that the president should decide on the bills reserved for her consideration by the governor within a period of three months from the date on which such reference is received. Four days after the top court cleared 10 bills, which were stalled and…
New Delhi, 12/4: Amid buzz over fast-tracking India-US trade deal after the Trump administration paused tariffs for 90 days, Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said India would never negotiate in a hurry while External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar felt the country should seize the window. “We never negotiate at gunpoint,” Goyal told reporters….
Jammu, 12/4: A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) of the Army was killed in an encounter with terrorists along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Akhnoor sector here, but their infiltration bid was thwarted, officials said on Saturday. They said alert army troops picked up the movement of a group of heavily armed terrorists near…
