- India
GST fraud: ED conducts raids in multiple states
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday conducted fresh searches in Jharkhand, West Bengal and Maharashtra as part of a “fake” GST invoices generation case to the tune of Rs 750 crore,…
- India
Notification for vice president’s election issued
New Delhi: The Election Commission issued a notification on Thursday for the September 9 election to the vice president’s post, kickstarting the nomination process. According to the notification, August 21 is the…
- India
PM Modi to visit China after 7 yrs to attend SCO summit in Tianjin
New Delhi: After a gap of over seven years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to travel to China later this month to attend the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation…
- Andhra Pradesh
Kharge names Seelam, Mastan Vali as AP Congress working presidents
Amaravati: The Congress party has appointed former Union MoS J.D. Seelam and former MLA Mastan Vali as the working presidents of the Andhra Pradesh unit and also announced 25-member Political Affairs Committee.…
- India
Man & family booked for hiding religion, coercing conversion & abortion
Gonda: A man and his three family members have been booked here on the charge of him marrying a woman by concealing his religious identity, forcing her to convert and undergo abortion,…
- India
YouTubers attacked near Dharmasthala, four hospitalised
Mangaluru: Four men, representing three YouTube channels, including a cameraman, were attacked by a large mob near Dharmasthala in Dakshina Kannada district on Wednesday evening, when they were interviewing a person, amid…
- India
Trump’s 50 per cent tariff is economic blackmail: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said US President Donald Trump’s 50 per cent tariff on Indian goods is “economic blackmail” to bully India into an…
- India
Bogus hospital received Rs 50L from CM relief fund, MP govt admits in assembly
Bhopal: A hospital in Guna district which had ceased to operate received Rs 40 to 50 lakh from the Chief Minister Relief Fund fraudulently, the Madhya Pradesh government stated in the assembly…
- Delhi
Delhi HC seeks Centre’s reply on plea for women’s entry in armed forces via CDS
New Delhi: A petition filed in the Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought women’s entry in the armed forces through Combined Defence Services so that “country is not deprived of officers like…
- Sports
BCCI exempted from RTI as amended sports bill covers only funded federations
New Delhi: In what can be construed as a relief to the BCCI, the Sports Ministry has amended the RTI-related provision of the National Sports Governance Bill, placing only those bodies under…
- India
Dalit woman gang-raped, fiance assaulted in MP; 3 out of 4 accused held
Sidhi: A 20-year-old Dalit woman, who had gone out with her fiance in Madhya Pradesh’s Sidhi district, was allegedly raped by four men who also assaulted her male partner, said a police…
- India
‘Tortured’ in police custody, Odisha man attempts suicide
Jajpur: A 28-year-old man attempted suicide by consuming a poisonous substance after he was allegedly tortured in police custody in Odisha’s Jajpur district. Police said that the victim Rabindra Mallik, a resident…
- Bangalore
Man kills woman, then suicides in Bengaluru’s Tirupalya locality
Bengaluru: A woman was murdered and the accused allegedly died by suicide shortly after the crime in Tirupalya near Hebbagodi on the outskirts of Bengaluru on Wednesday, police said. The deceased woman…
- Kolkata
Kolkata court remands four in law college rape case to police custody till Aug 8
Kolkata: In what is being claimed as a first-of-its-kind order by a court in Kolkata, all four accused in the South Calcutta Law College rape case were remanded to police custody for…
- Business
From 25pc to 50pc, US slaps ‘penalty tariffs’ on India for Russian oil
Washington: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, August 6, slapped an additional 25 per cent tariff on goods coming from India as penalty for New Delhi’s continued buying of Russian oil. Trump…
