Category: national

Odisha Speaker Pramila Mallik on Thursday suspended BJP chief whip Mohan Charan Majhi and MLA Mukesh Mahaling for allegedly throwing daal (pulses) at the Speaker’s podium in the state assembly.

The Madhya Pradesh Police on Thursday claimed to have arrested the main accused in the Ujjain minor girl rape case. The arrested individual has been identified as Bharat Soni, a resident of Ujjain.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is probing the multi-crore cash for school job case in West Bengal, has now summoned Lata Banerjee and Amit Banerjee, the parents of Trinamool Congress’s national General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, for questioning in the matter next week.

The NIA, during its investigation, has uncovered that criminal syndicates in their pursuit of advanced weaponry have turned to using the proceeds from their extortion operations to finance the acquisition of sophisticated arms.

The income of an earning wife cannot be treated on a par with that of other earning members considering the diverse responsibilities that she carries besides earning, the Calcutta High Court held on Thursday.

Another student in Rajasthan's Kota committed suicide, taking the total number of students who have ended their lives this year to 26. Mohammad Tanveer, the 20-year-old student ended his life by hanging himself in his room on Wednesday night.

The Supreme Court has agreed to examine a plea seeking directions to cancel and reconduct Round 3 of the All India Quota Counselling for 2023 NEET PG after all states have completed their respective Round 2 of the state quota counselling.

Accusing surveillance on West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose, the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata has ordered immediate removal of all personnel of Kolkata Police from inside the premises of Governor’s House.

Visionary scientist and father of the Green Revolution in India, Dr Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan passed away on Thursday morning. The Padma Bhushan awardee, popularly known as MS Swaminathan, passed away at Chennai at the age of 98.

The sleepy pilgrim town of Nanded in Maharashtra witnessed some thrills when a notorious absconder criminal was shot and caught by the police after a Bollywood-style case, officials said here on Thursday.

The Kerala High Court quashed proceedings against a man accused of having committed offences under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 on the ground that the victim and accused were now married.

A day after Kerala Health Minister Veena George defended her personal staffer accused of taking bribe from a man for absorbing his daughter-in-law in the Health Department, the complainant on Thursday said he had informed the minister's office about the "misdeed" but no action was taken.

An NIA charge sheet has revealed that Hardeep Singh Nijjar -- the pro-Khalistan hardliner who was shot dead in June -- and gangster-turned-terrorist Arshdeep Singh alias Arsh Dalla had lured shooters to commit terror acts in exchanhe for "arranging visas, splendid jobs and handsome earnings" in Canada.

The police said that the girl begs at signals of Arjunganj near PGI, while the boy lives near Sushant Golf City area and sells balloons on streets and the two are known to each other.

A day after the Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA) 2023 elections were held in which all the RSS-affiliated National Democratic Teachers' Front (NDTF) candidates won, defeating the Democratic United Teachers' Alliance (D.U.T.A.) by a huge margin.

The three-day long event -- IPACC, Indo-Pacific Armies Management Seminar (IPAMS), Senior Enlisted Leaders Forum (SELF) -- was organised by the Indian Army with the US Army as the co-host. The event witnessed participation from 30 countries. 

The Income Tax (I-T) department on Wednesday initiated raids at more than ten corporate companies here for allegedly evading taxes and submitting wrong inputs.

In a major crackdown, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday was conducting search operations at more than 51 locations belonging to the associates of Lawrence Bishnoi, Bambiha and Arsh Dalla gangs across the nation in Khalistan-gangster nexus case.

As owners of the jewellery shop in south Delhi opened it on Tuesday, they found dust all around - and were shocked to see a hole in the wall of the strongroom and jewellery worth over Rs 20 crore stolen, making it one of the biggest robberies reported in the national capital recently.

Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Tuesday condemned the protests by Khalistani elements in Canada during which Prime Minister Narendra Modi's poster and cutouts were kicked by shoes and the Indian national flag was burnt.

The Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) has reportedly issued around 12 pre-show cause notices to online real money gaming (RMG) firms, accusing them of evading approximately Rs 55,000 crore in Goods and Services Tax (GST).

Chats between two terrorists, arrested by the Special Cell, with Khalistani separatists based in Canada and Germany and their handlers in Pakistan revealed that they were planing to carry out a terror attack after January 26 in the national capital this year,

In a bolt to the sulking Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pankaja Munde, the GST Department swooped on a sugar factory controlled by her and seized certain assets to recover Rs 19-crore worth of GST dues, official sources said.

Commenting on the Kokernag encounter, the police chief said, “I know it is the handiwork of some vested interests to blow the Kokernag encounter out of proportion. It is always advantageous for those who open first fire during encounters. 

First a Kolkata- based top official of the said outsourced entity, S. Basu Roy & Company, Kaushik Maji was summoned and questioned at the agency’s Nizam Palace office in central Kolkata and subsequently different teams of CBI started raid and search operations at different outfits of the entity.