Category: India

At least 40 accounts of Maoist operatives containing Rs 55 crore have been frozen by the banking authorities in Jharkhand, a state that is one of their strongholds, police said. Among the 40, 15 are hardcore ultras who carry bounties on their…

US businesses can tap the immense opportunities that lie in India’s railways, infrastructure, manufacturing and innovation ecosystems amid a ‘remarkable shift’ in the bilateral ties, India’s envoy in Washington has said. “In my diplomatic journey, I have been fortunate to witness the…

With the Opposition joining hands against the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government’s decision to demonetise high-denomination currency notes of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000, Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law, Robert Vadra on Tuesday joined the onslaught and launched a twin attack over…

After the Madras high Court put an end to the menace of illegal ‘Sharia courts’ functioning from various mosques across Tamil Nadu, the Haji Ali petitioner Noorjehan Safia Niaz on Tuesday cited a Supreme Court judgement which pronounced that one cannot ban…

A wanted criminal, carrying a reward of Rs 1.4 lakh on his head, was nabbed while his gang leader manged to flee in an encounter with the police in the wee hours today near Badhokar drain on Barsana-Kama road. Acting on tip-off…

The attack on the Pathankot airbase in January was planned in April 2014 at a meeting in Sialkot in Pakistan by Jaish-e-Mohammed operative Shahid Latif who believed it was “easy” to launch an attack since the airbase was surrounded by forests, the…

Asserting that the Congress Party has always maintained its dignity and followed protocol in politics, the grand old party on Tuesday hailed its vice-president Rahul Gandhi, saying the way he stopped the Opposition from raising slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi showed…

Facing shortage of cash after demonetisation, a group of angered customers pelted stones at the SBI branch in Kakroli village, police said on Tuesday. The branch manager Chander Mohan lodged a complaint alleging that some persons pelted stones at the bank last…

The Income Tax department Tuesday unearthed Rs 10 crore in old currency notes and 6 kg gold during a raid in Chennai. The I-T sleuths seized the huge amount of cash and gold from a jewellery dealer, news agency ANI reported. This…

Putting in place a robust public transport system, supplying piped water to each household and ramping up health and school infrastructure will be the AAP government’s top focus in the new year as it tries to shrug off disappointment of 2016 that…