The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is probing the money trail of the teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal, on Wednesday is conducting raids on four places, including a flat owned by Arpita Mukherjee, a close aide of arrested state minister Partha Chatterjee, in Belgharia and recovered a huge cache of currency notes. Earlier on Saturday, […]
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld stringent provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act in relation to expansive definition of proceeds of crime, search and seizure, power of arrest, attachment of properties and tough bail conditions. The verdict delivered by a three-judge bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and CT Ravi Kumar is likely […]
Punjab Advocate-General Anmol Rattan Sidhu resigned from his post on Tuesday.In his resignation sent to CM Bhagwant Mann, Sidhu said he was resigning from the post with immediate effect owing to personal reasons. He thanked the party for giving him the chance to represent the office.Sidhu was appointed the advocate-general in March this year.The name […]
Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday defended the ‘citizen-first policies of the (Narendra) Modi government amid opposition fire over increase in prices of essential goods like LPG (liquified petroleum gas) cylinders. Puri, the petroleum minister, shared a graphic that said ‘LPG prices in India continue to be among the lowest in the world’, and […]
Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday went to the office of the Enforcement Directorate in Delhi for the second round of questioning in connection with the National Herald-money laundering case. Party leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra accompanied their mother to the ED office. Rahul Gandhi has been questioned extensively in the same […]
All eyes are on the auction for the 5G spectrum which is underway, generating immense curiosity about who will win the righs for 72 gigahertz of radiowaves worth ₹4.3 lakh crores on offer. The bidding process began at 10 am and go on till 6 pm, PTI reported. Four players Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone […]
Sixty-four-year-old Droupadi Murmu on Monday took oath as the 15th President of India flagging “everyone’s efforts, everyone’s duties” (Sabka saath, sabka kartavya) as central tracks for building a self-reliant, glorious India.Delivering her first address after being administered the oath of office by Chief Justice of India NV Ramana in the Central Hall of Parliament here, […]
Eighteen candidates have shared the top rank in CISCE class 12 examination with a score of 99.75 per cent, according to results announced on Sunday.The second rank has been shared by 58 candidates who scored 99.50 per cent while 78 candidates scored 99.25 per cent to share the third rank. The pass percentage in the […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated Neeraj Chopra for winning India’s first-ever silver medal at the World Athletics Championships. Neeraj finished second in the men’s javelin final with an 88.13m throw becoming only the second Indian athlete after Anju Boby George and the first male to win a medal in the World Championships. George […]
Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra bags a historic silver medal with his massive fourth-attempt throw of 88.13m. Neeraj is India’s first ever track and field athlete to take the silver medal in the World Championships, and second to bag a podium-finish after the legendary long jumper Anju Bobby George had finished third in the Paris Worlds […]