The CBI on Friday said it had registered a case against UK-based arms dealer Vipin Khanna and two foreign firms regarding alleged kickbacks in the purchase of three Embraer aircraft in a $208 million deal in 2008. “We have registered an FIR against Vipin Khanna, two foreign firms and some unknown persons regarding the procurement […]
The Supreme Court on Friday said the Justice Lodha Committee will appoint an independent auditor to study BCCI’s finances, including contracts involving media rights. A bench headed by Chief Justice T.S Thakur said the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will not disburse any funds to its state affiliates until they undertake to […]
The Delhi Police on Wednesday announced a reward of Rs 50,000 for information about missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed five days after he vanished. In an order issued late Wednesday, the police said that any information or clue regarding the missing/abducted Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student could be given to the Station House Officer (SHO) […]
Months ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, senior Congress leader Rita Bahuguna Joshi on Thursday joined the BJP here in the presence of party chief Amit Shah. Joshi, who had been with the Congress for 24 years, said it was not an easy decision for her but she had taken it in the interest […]
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council, at the end of day one of its meeting here on Tuesday, decided on the issue of compensation for states, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told reporters here. “One main issue in today’s (Tuesday) agenda was to calculate the compensation for states and this matter was concluded in the […]
Parliament’s Standing Committee on External Affairs was on Tuesday informed that surgical strikes-like military operations had taken place in the past too but were never made public, informed sources said. The matter came up in the meeting of the Standing Committee, attended among others by Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi, where the members were briefed by […]
Separatists called protest shutdown paralysed life for 103rd consecutive day in Kashmir Valley, however, authorities on Wednesday did not impose any curfew or restrictions anywhere. “No curfew or restrictions have been imposed anywhere today (Wednesday),” a senior police official said here. “Adequate deployment of security forces have been made to maintain law and order across […]
Value buying, coupled with broadly positive global indices and a strengthened rupee lifted the Indian equity markets on Tuesday. Besides, higher global crude oil prices and hopes of healthy quarterly results supported the key indices’ upward movement. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) gained 157.50 points or 1.85 per cent to […]
In what is an obvious reference to Pakistan’s use of terrorism as an instrument of state policy, External Affairs Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday said that the invitation to member states of the Bimstec group for an outreach summit at the BRICS Summit last weekend showed that these countries “today represent the polar opposite of a […]
At least two persons were killed on Tuesday in a fire that broke out in an industrialist’s apartment in a residential high-rise in Mumbai’s Cuffe Parade area, officials said. The 20th floor apartment belonged to Bajaj Electricals Chairman and Managing Director Shekhar Bajaj. The blaze was reported around 6.30 a.m. and eight fire tenders brought […]