NEW DELHI: ED on Friday said arrested Congress MLA and former excise minister in the Bhupesh Baghel govt in Chhattisgarh, Kawasi Lakhma, was “aware of the complete affairs of the liquor scam, yet he did nothing to stop it”. ED accused Lakhma of receiving Rs 2 crore every month from the syndicate involved in illegal…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will distribute over 65 lakh property cards (land title certificates) to rural land owners on Saturday and the cumulative value of these properties is pegged at least Rs 135 lakh crore. Officials said the property card will help people to get loans from banks as financial institutions prefer to…
NEW DELHI: Holding consultations with Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav here on Friday on the full rollout of new criminal laws in the state, home minister Amit Shah emphasised on the police getting go-ahead from their senior officers before applying sections related to terrorism and organised crime in cases registered under the Bharatiya Nyaya…
NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate on Friday said it had attached 142 properties with a market value ofRs 300 crore in a money laundering case allegedly involving Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah. The attached properties are registered in the names of various real estate agents.The agency alleged that Siddaramaiah used his political influence to get compensation of…
RAIPUR: Maoists in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region abducted late Thursday three tribal villagers on suspicion of being police informers and strangled to death one of the captives before dumping the body on the outskirts of the village to seemingly warn others of what might befall those working against the outfit. The abductors freed the other two…
NEW DELHI: BJP Friday said Congress moving Supreme Court in support of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act was a declaration of “open war against Hindus” and the party was now the “new Muslim League“. “Congress has approached SC seeking to deny Hindus their fundamental constitutional right to legal remedies for addressing historical injustices….
NEW DELHI: The ED has attached a sprawling property on Amrita Shergill Marg in Lutyen’s Delhi worth over Rs 486 crore belonging to Aarti Singhal, wife of Sanjay Singhal, former promoter of Bhushan Steel, in a money laundering case.This is the second property on Amrita Shergill Marg to be attached by ED, after the agency…
NEW DELHI: The first part of Parliament’s Budget session is likely to be held between Jan 31 and Feb 13, with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman set to table her eighth straight budget on Feb 1. In line with the convention that is followed in case of the budget, the session will initially start with President…
KOLKATA: Central Bureau of Investigation, which for more than two months argued the RG Kar rape-murder case following a high court-ordered investigation, is confident of securing the conviction of prime accused Sanjay Roy.Sessions court judge Anirban Das is scheduled to deliver the judgment on CBI’s first chargesheet on Saturday, 162 days after an on-duty PGT…
NEW DELHI: Import of second-hand or refurbished medical devices is not allowed, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation has said. In a letter sent to the office of the principal commissioner of Customs recently, it has asked Customs dept to not release such devices from the port of entry.The letter, a copy of which is…
