Chennai, Dec 1 (IANS) The 18-year-old case of non-filing of income tax (IT) returns against former Tamil Nadu chief minister J.Jayalalithaa and her friend Sasikala is expected to come to an end soon with the IT department accepting their plea for compounding of the offences. The two had filed an application for compounding the offences […]
Baghdad, Dec 1 (IANS) A total of 67 people, including 15 border guards, were killed in clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants across Iraq Monday, as the Iraqi forces recaptured seven villages in the country’s east, security sources said. In the western province of Anbar, 15 border guards were killed and five others injured when […]
New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS) Supporting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement that special efforts would be made to promote tourism in northeast India, Culture and Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma Monday said promoting tourism will be an effective tool in containing extremism in the country. The minister said the northeast has great potential to be developed […]
Panaji, Nov 28 (IANS) Goa’s multi-million dollar iron ore mining industry will be operational within “two to three months”, Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar said Friday after conducting his first cabinet meeting. “Mining will start in Goa after two to three months,” Parsekar said in response to a query from reporters. Mining had been banned in […]
Shillong, Nov 24 (IANS) Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma Monday said that he is yet to accept the resignation of his woman Home Minister Roshan Warjri. “She (Warjri) had told me that she wanted to go for her treatment. Therefore, I have no accepted her resignation,” he told journalists after the assembly session was adjourned […]
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 24 (IANS) As the Supreme Court Monday questioned whether sidelined BCCI chief N. Srinivasan was not in a position of conflict while heading the cricket body and also holding a franchise in the IPL, he made a quick visit Monday evening to the famed Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in the Kerala capital. Srinivasan was […]
Kathmandu, Nov 22 (IANS) Nepal Police shot dead an Indian national along the Nepal-India border while he was smuggling weapons from India. The incident took place Saturday afternoon in Bishnupura village of Rupandhei district, 20 km south from Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha. Rajendra Dhakal, superintendent of police in Rupandhei district, said an Indian […]
Mathura, Nov 21 (IANS) Six unidentified armed bandits looted Rs. 30 lakh in broad daylight from a branch of the Syndicate Bank on at Chaumuhan town on the Delhi-Mathura national highway, police said. Police said a customer and a bank official were injured in the scuffle with the robbers. Senior police officers, including the inspector […]
New York, Nov 20 (IANS) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in the list of 50 contenders for Time magazine’s Person of the Year. Time’s Person of the Year will be announced Dec 10. Modi, “once a controversial regional leader”, became India’s prime minister after leading his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a “landslide electoral […]
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 20 (IANS) The opposition in Kerala Thursday demanded that strong action be taken against a senior bureaucrat whose office and house were raided by the vigilance and anti-corruption bureau. The bureau officials seized documents and cash from the possession of T.O. Sooraj, Kerala PWD secretary. He was under the lens of the vigilance […]