On the second day of hearing this week on former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram's petition for pre-arrest bail in the ED's INX Media case, his lawyers argued on the retrospective effect of the PMLA law. Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, representing Chidambaram, told the court ...
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday waived off water arrears of about 13 lakh people with functional water meters. "Some of these arrears are due to consumers but some are also due to incorrect billing," Kejriwal told the media....
The Income Tax department has attached a benami property in the form of a hotel worth Rs 150 crore in Gurugram allegedly belonging to Haryana Congress leader Kuldeep Bishnio and his brother, IT sources said on Tuesday. According to the sources, the department has attached Bristol Hotel, adding ...
An inter-ministerial meeting is on in the Home Ministry on Tuesday to discuss the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act, 2019 which bifurcated the erstwhile state into two Union Territories, said officials. The meeting, chaired by newly appointed Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla,...
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will cross-examine Trinamool Congress MP K.D. Singh, Narada News Managing Director Mathew Samuel and a third person in connection with the Narada sting operation, sources said on Tuesday. A CBI source related to the investigation told IANS: "The agency has asked ...
The Mumbai Traffic Police collected record fines totalling nearly Rs 139 crore in 2018 for violations of traffic rules, according to an RTI filing here on Tuesday. This figure is much higher compared to the Rs 8.6 crore collected in 2017, said RTI activist Jeetendra Ghadge, and the credit for this goes to the 'e-challan' ...
Amid reports of crores of rupees spent on the health bills of late Goa Chief Minister late Manohar Parrikar, Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat on Tuesday said that all MLAs should be provided with health insurance cover. When asked at a press conference about covering lawmakers under health ...
In his first public engagement after returning from the G7 Summit in Paris, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday morning visited former Finance minister Arun Jaitley's family at his Kailash Colony residence here. Jaitley passed away on Saturday, when the PM was in the UAE. From the UAE, he ...
A Punjab and Haryana High Court judge has recused himself from hearing a bail plea filed by Honeypreet, the adopted daughter of convicted Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. She is in jail in connection with violence that broke out in Panchkula in Haryana ...
US President Donald Trump has said he is open to meeting Iran's President Hassan Rouhani under the right circumstances. ...