New Delhi: At least 16 kg gold biscuits hidden in baby diapers were today recovered from the Indira Gandhi International Airport here after a group of fliers coming from Dubai were intercepted by security agencies. Officials said the recovery was made around 7:00 AM when a group of six passengers

Hyderabad: Dubbing Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a “dictator”, AIMIM Chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has alleged that power-drunk Modi took the bizarre decision of demonetization of big currency notes only to satisfy his sadistic ego by causing unprecedented suffering to every household in

Thiruvananthapuram: Six persons, including a woman, were taken into custody by police on Monday for not standing up when the national anthem was played ahead of the screening of a film at the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK). The IFFK organisers had made it very clear that the apex co

At least 10 people dead and more than 7000 left homeless since the Cyclone's landfall in Tamil Nadu Chennai: Heavy rains coupled with squally winds today lashed the northern coastal districts of Tamil Nadu, including Chennai, as very severe cyclonic storm ‘Vardah’ was expected to make landfall this

Mumbai: The state Congress on Monday asked Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis whether Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) President Raj Thackeray is running a parallel government in the state. “Why should filmmakers run to Thackeray for getting ‘permission’ to release their films even thou

Among the four people injured in the helicopter crash in Mumbai's Aarey colony on Sunday, one person has died. The accident took place at 12.15 pm, reports CNN-News18. According to ANI, four people were injured and were shifted to a nearby hospital for medical aid, adding that the helicopter Robins

New Delhi: The Patiala House Court on Friday reserved its order in the National Herald case after BJP leader Subramanian Swamy filed an application, seeking documents and ledger books from the Congress party and the Associated Journals Limited (AJL). The court is likely to pronounce an order on Dece

Chennai: The Income Tax department has seized at least Rs 106 crore in cash, including Rs 10 crore in new currency, and gold bars weighing 127 kg in searches at multiple locations in the city to check tax evasion post demonetization. This is the largest seizure of new currency notes after the old Rs

New Delhi: Making a U-turn within a few hours, the government on Friday advanced by a day the last date for using the old Rs 500 notes to purchase tickets for travel by train, government- or public sector undertaking-run buses and commuting on suburban and Metro rail services. The guillotine was

New Delhi: The CBI today arrested former Indian Air Force chief S P Tyagi and two others for alleged corruption in the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP choppers deal. Tyagi, who retired in 2007, was questioned by the CBI extensively in the past in this case. Along with Tyagi, his cousin Sanj

New Delhi:Anguished over restrictions on withdrawals by their embassies, many foreign governments are contemplating reciprocal measures against Indian missions abroad terming the measures as a “serious breach” of Vienna Convention. In strong comments, Frank Hans Dannenberg Castellanos, Dean of Di

Hyderabad: The Income Tax department has launched searches against a city-based realtor, who declared an estimated Rs 9,800 crore black money under the recently concluded IDS, after he failed to deposit the first installment of tax on November 30. The default by the real-estate businessman has creat

New Delhi [India]: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday announced that it would soon issue Rs. 100 denomination notes in the Mahatma Gandhi Series-2005, without inset letter in both the numbering panels. However, all the previous Rs. 100 notes issued by the bank will continue to be legal tende

New Delhi: Come April 1, 2017, reservation of rail tickets for senior citizens will be directly linked to Aadhaar or Unique Identification (UID) cards on a mandatory basis for availing concessions at both counter and e-tickets. However, such a requirement will be optional during January-March 2017.

Justice Khehar, who will be sworn in on January 4, will hold the tenure for over seven months till August 27, 2017. Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, who led the five-judge constitution bench in the Supreme Court which had struck down the controversial NJAC Act for appointment of judges, was on Tue

Manish Sharma and six others were arrested, they had Rs. 33 lakh in new Rs. 2000 notes. KOLKATA: A BJP leader in Bengal who was the party's candidate in the Assembly polls was arrested with six others in Kolkata with bundles of cash totalling Rs. 33 lakh. Police say most of the notes were brand new

NEW DELHI: 12 people have been injured, three of them seriously, after two coaches of Capital Express train, scheduled from Bihar's Rajendra Nagar to Guwahati in Assam, derailed in West Bengal this evening. The derailment took place close to Samuktala Road Station in West Bengal's Alipurduar distri

She noted that the disputed Babri structure was also demolished by saffron forces to send a message that they do not believe in the Constitution framed by Ambedkar. BSP supremo Mayawati today accused BJP and RSS of trying to change the secular Constitution and establish Hindutva, saying the dem