Income Tax officials on Thursday raided an Axis Bank branch here and seized 20 fake accounts with deposits amounting Rs 60 crore, police said. ...
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a plea by two IAF personnel seeking to grow beard, saying IAF's policies on personal appearance were not intended to discriminate against religious beliefs. Rejecting the plea by Mohamed Zubair and Ansari Aaftab Ahmed, Chief Justice T.S. Thakur, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice L. Nageswara Rao sa...
The Kerala High Court on Thursday fixed January 4 for hearing on a CBI revision petition in the SNC Lavalin case. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was an accused in the case filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation, but a special court here exonerated him in 2013. The CBI then approached the High Court against the exoneration. Hearin...
Congress's Lok Sabha member Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday said it was "unprecedented" that the treasury benches disrupting the proceedings of the house. "We are seeing for the first time in (Parliament's) history that treasury members are trying to disrupt the house. And their senior ministers are provoking them. They are displaying...
Former Defence Minister A.K. Antony on Thursday said there were no skeletons in the UPA's closet pertaining to the AgustaWestland helicopter deal. "We have nothing to hide, nothing to fear, no role in it. We are very clear," Antony said outside Parliament. "Many a time in Parliament I have explained everything with documents about the whole t...
Gunmen looted Rs 11 lakh from a bank in the Kashmir Valley on Thursday, authorities said. Police said four gunmen entered the Ratnipora branch of the J&K Bank Ltd in Pulwama and decamed with the money. "They looted around Rs 11 lakh at gunpoint from the cash counter. A manhunt has been launched to nab the robbers," a police officer said. This is the...
The Lok Sabha lost the second last day of the winter session on Thursday to disruptions, with the opposition benches demanding a debate on demonetisation while the treasury benches demanded a discussion on the AgustaWestland helicopter deal. As the house met, opposition members were on their feet while members of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party...
Veteran BJP leader L.K. Advani on Thursday said he feels like resigning from Parliament because of unending disruptions in both houses. He told three MPs, including Nana Patole from the Bharatiya Janata Party, that the now ailing former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee would have been very sad to witness the state of affairs. As the Lok Sabha was a...
The Supreme Court on Thursday banned the sale of liquor within 500 meters on either side of national and state highways across the country. A bench headed by Chief Justice T.S. Thakur said that all liquor vendors holding licenses for selling liquor would continue to do so till their licenses were valid or till March 31, 2017, whichever was earlier. The li...
The Rajya Sabha was adjourned till noon on Thursday amid chaos as both the opposition and the government MPs shouted and levelled allegations of corruption against each other. Soon after the House met for the day's business, the Chair allowed Leader of Opposition Gulam Nabi Azad to speak but the MPs from the treasury benches did not allow him to say any...
