A Delhi court on Saturday allowed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to quiz British national Christian Michel, the middleman accused in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal case, for seven days. Special Judge Arvind Kumar sent Michel to ED's custody for seven days after the ...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said that six items have been removed from the 28 per cent tax bracket under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime. There were 34 items in the 28 per cent tax bracket which included luxury and 'sin goods' till now. However, the GST Council in its meeting on Saturday decided to ...
Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik on Saturday announced ex gratia relief of Rs 2 lakh each for the next of kin of six Kashmiri labourers who died in a landslide in Uttarakhand a day ago, an official statement said. The six belonging to Uri in Baramulla district were killed while three were ...
A man and a woman have been arrested in connection with a string of drone sightings which brought UK's Gatwick Airport to a standstill for three days. The arrests came as passengers braced for further disruption on Saturday while the airport tried to recover from the turmoil, the UK media reported....
A Punjab National Bank (PNB) officer was abducted and later killed by unidentified criminals in Gaya district in Bihar. The bank's Customer Service Point (CSP) in-charge Pintu Singh was abducted late on Friday from near Amas, Officer in-chrage of Amas Police station Shayam Lal ...
Six militants of the Al Qaeda-affiliate Zakir Musa's group Ansar Ghazwatul Hind, including its Kashmiri deputy, were killed on Saturday in a gunfight with the security forces in Tral area of Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, the Defence Ministry said. ...
It was a cold, foggy morning in the national capital on Saturday with minimum temperature dropping to 4 degrees Celsius, four notches below average and air quality remaining 'severe', the Met said. At 8.30 a.m., visibility was at 600 metres and humidity was 97 per cent -- a condition nor favourable for dispersal of pollutants in the air. ...
A severe cold wave lashed Kashmir Valley and the Ladakh region on Saturday as Leh recorded minus 15.8 degrees Celius and the Met forecast no change in conditions for at least the next five days till Thursday. "For the next five days we are not expecting any change in weather. The cold ...
With funding for roughly a quarter of the US government, including appropriations for the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice expiring at midnight, a partial shutdown of the federal administration began on Saturday after the Congress and the White House failed to reach a deal....
Twelve years after the sensational killing of Sohrabuddin Shaikh, his associate Tulsiram Prajapati and rape-cum-murder of Kausar Bi, a Special CBI Court here on Friday acquitted all 22 accused in the politically sensitive case, saying "witnesses and proofs provided were not satisfactory"....
