The Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached assets worth Rs. 53 crore in connection with the ongoing investigation into allegations of money laundering of about Rs.2,330 crore funds procured from nationalised banks by Surya Vinayak Industries Limited (SVIL) and its sister concern. Those named as accused are Surya Vinayak Industries, its ... Read More »
A Supreme Court-appointed committee led by former CBI Special Director M.L. Sharma on Wednesday handed over its report on investigations into frequent meetings held by the investigating agency’s former chief Ranjit Sinha with prominent accused in the coal scam cases as revealed from a leaked visitors’ logbook maintained at his ... Read More »
The One Rank One Pension scheme, brought in last November to benefit more than 2.5 million ex- servicemen and war widows, on Wednesday received ex-post facto approval from the Cabinet. Under the scheme, pension would be revised on the basis of the pension of retirees of calendar year 2013 and ... Read More »
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad today accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “stopping” all developmental schemes launched by the Congress government in Assam affecting its growth. “Assam is placed in a difficult location geographically. So usually no investment comes here. That is why the Congress government had introduced a ... Read More »
Kamla Advani, the wife of BJP veteran L. K. Advani, died today at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) due to heart failure. Sources close to the family said she complained of uneasiness and breathlessness and was rushed to the AIIMS where doctors tried to revive her but ... Read More »
Kamla Advani, wife of senior BJP leader L K Advani, died here on Wednesday at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) due to cardiac arrest. The AIIMS report said, “Smt. Kamla Advani, wife of Shri L K Advani, aged 83 yrs., was brought to the Main Casualty, AIIMS ... Read More »
The anxious family of 34-year-old Mohammed Ismail, who was detained on Tuesday at Pune by NIA investigators, suspecting him of being an ‘IS recruiter’, heaved a sigh of relief after he informed the family of his release. Confirming this to The Hindu over phone from Bhatkal, Ismail’s father Rauf Ahmed ... Read More »
The city has been on a terror alert since Monday, following an advisory received from the Union Home Ministry on a possible terror strike by three men travelling in an explosive-laden car from the Punjab border towards Delhi, Mumbai and Goa. Senior Maharashtra officials said this was the sixth such ... Read More »
Two militants were killed in a gun battle with security forces in south Kashmir’s Shopian district early Thursday. “Two militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in the wee hours today,” a senior Army official said. “The operation is still underway,” the official said. [Source:- The Hindu ] Read More »
With the banks outrightly rejecting two offers made by businessman Vijay Mallya towards payment of dues totally worth Rs. 9000 crore, the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered him to file an affidavit on oath disclosing all assets as on March 31, 2016 in India and abroad, not only in his ... Read More »
The annual fee for undergraduate courses at IITs has been hiked by more than double, sources in the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry said on Thursday. The annual fee has been hiked from Rs. 90,000 to Rs. 2 lakh. Confirming the development, a senior official at HRD Ministry said: “The ... Read More »
As soaring mercury levels leave drought-prone States in a parched condition, the Supreme Court on Wednesday turned the heat on the Centre for not releasing sufficient funds to these States for employment generation under the MGNREGS. A Bench led by Justice Madan B. Lokur said there was no point anymore ... Read More »
