The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet on Wednesday approved a bill for a new tough law -- UPCOCA (Uttar Pradesh Control of Organised Crime Act) -- to deal with the mafia, land grabbers and goons in the state. The state police mooted the proposal that is in line with the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999. The state's Bharatiya J...
The December 31 deadline to link the 12-digit Aadhaar number with bank accounts and Permanent Account Number (PAN) has been lifted, the government announced on Wednesday. A notification to this effect was issued on Tuesday by the Department of Revenue under the Finance Ministry. According to the notification, the words "submit the Aadhaar n...
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who turned 62 on Wednesday, has said that his resolution for the coming year was to extend the running of the state legislative assembly for more than 40-45 days per year. Speaking to reporters at the state legislative assembly complex here, during the ongoing winter session of the assembly, Pa...
The air quality in the National Capital Region, including Delhi, again went down to "very poor" by Wednesday morning from "poor" for a day only in the wake of moderate rain on Monday. According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the air quality at 11 of the 21 monitoring stations across NCR was "very poor", as against on...
Congress President-elect Rahul Gandhi has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi helped him "the most" and he does not hate him. "Modiji has helped me the most... How can I hate him," Rahul Gandhi said in an interview to Gujarati news channel GSTV. He was asked about the comments made against the Nehru-Gandhi family by the Prime Minister...
Days after their bitter war of words over a meeting with Pakistani officials, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his predecessor Manmohan Singh greeted each other and shook hands on Wednesday at an event here to pay homage to the victims of the 2001 Parliament attack. Also present were Congress President-elect Rahul Gandhi and p...
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Wednesday his government has sought Rs 1,843 crore from the Centre to mitigate the damage caused by Cyclone Ockhi. "This was one of the worst disasters that struck the state. The Centre has been very supportive in all aspects," Vijayan told the media soon after chairing the weekly cabinet meeting...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed an NCLT order suspending real estate major Unitech's directors and allowing the Centre to appoint its nominees in their place. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud stayed the December 8 order of the National Company Law Tribunal by which it had suspended nine directo...
The Supreme Court will hear on Thursday a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of mandatory linking of Aadhaar to various schemes. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra on Wednesday said the matter will be heard at 2 p.m. on December 14. The petitioners are pressing for an extension of interim relief on the mandatory linking ...
A court here on Wednesday convicted former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, among others on corruption charges in a coal block allocation case. Special Judge Bharat Parashar held Koda, former Coal Secretary H.C. Gupta, Jharkhand's then Chief Secretary A.K. Basu, among others, guilty of criminal conspiracy and cheating under various provi...
