BHUBANESWAR: Income tax officials seized Rs 50 lakh from a Delhi passenger at Biju Patnaik International Airport in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday.Directorate of Revenue Intelligence checked the passenger’s baggage on a tip-off from airport authorities at Delhi. “One bag was found stashed with cash. Intelligence officials already knew the amount as officials in Delhi had intimated…
NEW DELHI: General secretary of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, Champat Rai on Tuesday rebutted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s allegation that President Droupadi Murmu was not invited to the consecration of Ram Lalla’s idol at the Ayodhya temple as she is a tribal.Referring to Rahul’s allegation reported in this daily from Gandhinagar, Rai said…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Tuesday dismissed the second regular bail plea filed by former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in the money laundering and corruption cases pertaining to the now scrapped liquor policy of 2021-22.The court of special judge Kaveri Baweja dismissed the bail pleas in the CBI and ED cases stating that…
GUWAHATI/NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday condemned the alleged sexual abuse of women involving JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna and said BJP would not tolerate any insult or abuse of women.Addressing a press conference in Guwahati, Shah said, “The issue regarding Revanna that has been reported in the media is very hurtful and cannot…
DEHRADUN/HARIDWAR: In a double blow to Patanjali, the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) in Chandigarh has imposed a hefty penalty of Rs 27.5 crore on Patanjali Foods for an irregularity in Input Tax Credit (ITC). The notice comes a day after the Uttarakhand govt suspended the licences for 14 products sold by Patanjali Ayurved…
NEW DELHI: After Patanjali Ayurved founders Baba Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna, who had to face contempt proceedings on a plea by the Indian Medical Association (IMA), it now seems to be the turn of the IMA chief to face the music with Supreme Court on Tuesday allowing filing of a contempt application against him for…
BENGALURU: Karnataka govt has been accused of delayed action regarding the sex video case allegedly involving JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna, leading to a heated debate between Congress and BJP, with questions raised about political motives.Congress’s decision to wait until after the first phase of voting in the state on April 26 is attributed to political…
KOTA: A 20-year-old preparing for NEET at a Kota institute died by suicide on Tuesday morning in the second such incident in three days and the eighth this year.Bharat Kumar Rajput, from Dholpur in Rajasthan, ended his life in his PG room.This is the second such incident within three days and the eighth this year…
NEW DELHI: Solicitor General Tushar Mehta on Tuesday extensively quoted B R Ambedkar while trying to find an answer to the 50-year-old question — whether material resources of the community included private property?Arguing for acceptance of Ambedkar’s views before a bench of CJI D Y Chandrachud and Justices Hrishikesh Roy, B V Nagarathna, S Dhulia,…
NEW DELHI: India saved an estimated $7.9 billion in oil import in the 11 months of 2023-24 financial year ended March 31, compared to $5.1 billion over the whole of 2022-23, by purchasing higher volumes of Russian crude at deep discounts, ICRA Research said on Tuesday.The savings leads to a “compression” of 15-22 basis points…
