New Delhi: Cracking down on non-performers and corruption, PM Narendra Modi has asked Union secretaries to carry out rigorous assessment of performance of employees as per rules, which give absolute right to government to retire any staffer in “public interest“.Sources said in an interaction with all central ministers and secretaries on Wednesday, a day after…
MUMBAI: In one of the last cabinet meetings before the announcement of the assembly elections, deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, who holds the finance portfolio, was present for only around 10 minutes and left immediately after tribute was paid to Ratan Tata Thursday. Thirty-eight decisions – many of them having major financial implications – were…
Lokayukta police, probing the alleged Muda land allotment scam, on Thursday questioned Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah‘s brother-in-law BM Mallikarjuna Swamy and land-owner J Devaraju for more than nine hours. Swamy, the third accused, and Devaraju, the fourth accused, in the case were questioned separately about allegations of creation of fraudulent documents and violation of the law…
TOI correspondent from London: The general counsel of banned outfit Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, designated a terrorist by India, has produced a video making threats against India’s sovereignty once again, this time threatening to start independence movements in other states besides Punjab.“Mission of SFJ 2024 ONE India To 2047 NONE India,” Pannun…
NEW DELHI: The late Ratan Tata once took to art to raise funds for a good cause and the painting has a pride of place at the lobby of Mumbai’s iconic Taj Mahal Palace. The year was 2006 and paintings that were to be a collaborative effort between a famous Indian personality from the field…
In a major drug bust on Thursday evening, law enforcement officials confiscated 200 kg of cocaine from west Delhi, with an estimated street value of Rs 2,000 crore. According to a police official, this marks the second largest seizure of cocaine within a week.Currently, a raid is being conducted in the Ramesh Nagar area of…
Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: The Maharashtra cabinet has decided to request the central government to raise the income limit for the ‘non-creamy layer‘ category to Rs 15 lakh per annum from the current Rs 8 lakh. This decision came ahead of the upcoming assembly elections, likely to be held…
NEW DELHI: Has Haryana election results neutralised the “psychological advantage” which the Congress-led opposition had claimed to gain after Lok Sabha polls? Rahul Gandhi had in his recent speeches claimed that the opposition had broken PM Modi “psychologically”, citing the fact that his government was dependent on the support of allies in Lok Sabha for…
NEW DELHI: Ratan Tata shut down his 1,500-crore Nano project from West Bengal in 2008 and shifted it to Gujarat. But this move had more factors at its play: 400 acres of farm land, Mamata’s protests and Modi‘s SMS.The opposition Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, led by Mamata Banerjee, had led widespread protests after the…
Representational image (Pic credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: Government on Thursday officially declared Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT), an international pan-Islamic organisation founded in Jerusalem in 1953, as a banned group due to its alleged involvement in promoting terrorism and radicalising vulnerable youth to join terrorist organisations like ISIS. The Union home ministry issued a notification saying that HuT…
