New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) Two drug traffickers, including a woman, were arrested in two separate raids and 500 grams heroin worth Rs.50 lakh in the international market seized from them, police said Saturday. The duo were apprehended in two separate raids conducted by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police at two different places in […]
New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) India’s defence ministry Saturday cleared a project worth Rs.32,000 crore for 12 mine sweeping vessels to be made in the country, along with some other projects including one for buying 38 basic trainer aircrafts. In a meeting of the Defence Acquisition Council chaired by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, the government […]
New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Saturday unveiled a slew of stringent steps to battle black money stashed abroad, including a new law that will entail rigorous imprisonment of up to 10 years and a penalty of 300 percent on its perpetrators. Those evading tax by sending money to foreign countries will […]
Hyderabad, Feb 27 (IANS) A team of police officers from 21 countries Friday visited the office of Telangana’s police chief. Director General of Police Anurag Sharma and other senior police officers briefed them about the functioning of state crime record bureau, fingerprint bureau and also explained them about the functioning of anti-Maoist force Grey Hounds. […]
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Friday issued notices to British daily and two Indian newspapers on a defamation suit filed against them by Raihan, son of Robert and Priyanaka Vadra, for carrying a news article speculating that Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi may adopt him to finalize a succession plan in […]
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) Sidelined Trinamool Congress national general secretary Mukul Roy Friday said he has not crossed any limits by calling on Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and would skip the party working committee meeting Saturday due to the union budget presentation and personal work. Throwing veiled punches at the party leadership, Roy – […]
Hyderabad, Feb 27 (IANS) Telesur, a telecommunications service provider in Suriname, and India’s YuppTV, Friday signed an agreement to deliver over-the-top (OTT) internet television services in the South American nation. YuppTV, claimed to be a leading OTT content player for South Asian content, will provide a full turnkey technology solution to Telesur. It will aggregate […]
Kolkata, Feb 27 (IANS) West Bengal’s major industry bodies Friday welcomed the state budget saying the proposals on tax revision, especially Value Added Tax, would facilitate the growth of small scale industries. “The state budget has further introduced a slew of measures to simplify and reform the taxation system which would stimulate the business and […]
Mumbai, Feb 26 (IANS) Ahead of Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu’s maiden budget, stocks of companies associated with the public transporter were volatile in Thursday’s pre-afternoon trade session. Stocks of companies like Texmaco Rail and Engineering, Transformers and Rectifiers (India), Kalindee Rail Nirman (Engineers) and Stone India were trading in the red. However, healthy gains were […]
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) Two officials from the environment ministry and the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) were arrested in connection with the official documents leak, police said Thursday. Delhi Police have arrested Jatinder Nagpal, who is personal assistant to the joint secretary in the ministry of environment, forests and climate change. Nagpal was […]