NEW DELHI: Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s office in Vinod Nagar area of his Patparganj constituency in east Delhi has been burgled, with the thieves decamping with computers, documents, CCTV camera DVR among others, police said on Friday. “Some materials have been stolen from the receptio

New Delhi: The deadline to deposit old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes in banks ends on Friday. From next week onward, those still holding the scrapped currency can deposit it only with the Reserve Bank of India till March 31, 2017. After March 31, holding demonetised notes would be illegal and could i

Mumbai: In a sensational revelation, Mehboob Mujawar a former officer of Maharashtra’s anti-terrorism squad has told a Solapur court on Thursday that Sandeep Dange and Ramji Kalsangra, who were accused of planting the bombs in Malegaon, were not missing but had, in fact, been killed in custody by Ma

Nagpur: A three-day national conclave of Vishwa Hindu Parishad will begin here tomorrow, wherein resolutions demanding a countrywide ban on slaughter of cows and for adopting uniform civil code are expected to be passed. “Presently, there is no uniform national law to ban the slaughter of cows. S

In a daring daylight-heist, a five-member gang committed robbery in Muthoot Finance at its Beeramguda branch in Sangaeddy district on Tuesday night   and escaped with 46 kilos of gold worth Rs.12 crore. On receipt of information,  Cyberabad  Commissioner of Police Sandeep Sandilya rushed to the s

NEW DELHI: The Cabinet on Wednesday approved promulgation of an Ordinance to make possession of a large number of scrapped banknotes a penal offence making holding of old Rs. 1,000 and 500 notes after March 31st beyond a threshold amount a criminal offence. The possession will attract a monetary

If Demonetization chaos does not normalize after 30 Dec we will pressurize him to resign – Rahul Gandhi Delhi: Congress Party and the other opposition parties questioned Modi whether he will stick to his words and resign if Demonetization chaos does not normalize after the December 30 deadline se

New Delhi: A Jet Airways flight with 161 people on board veered off the runway at Dabolim airport in Goa while aligning for take off to Mumbai early today, with 15 passengers suffering “minor” injuries during evacuation. The incident took place at around 5 AM. Flight 9W 2374 which had arrived fro

Agence France Presse | Published — Tuesday 27 December 2016 AHMEDABAD: A low-caste pregnant woman and her husband were beaten with sticks after refusing to allow a group of higher-caste men to graze cattle on their farmland in India, police said Tuesday. The alleged attack in western Gujarat state

Sabarimala (Kerala) [India]: At least 17 pilgrims were injured, one of them critically, following a stampede at the Sabarimala temple in Kerala on Sunday. All the injured have been rushed to a nearby hospital for immediate treatment. There was extra rush at the popular temple because of the idol

NEW DELHI: With India looking at full exploitation of its rights under the Indus Waters Treaty+ (IWT) with Pakistan, a high-level inter-ministerial task force held its first meeting on Friday, focussing on bringing Punjab and Jammu & Kashmir on board for speeding up work on the ground through be

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of snatching money from the poor in the garb of “surgical strike on black money’’ through demonetisation. He claimed the move is aimed “for the benefit of 1 per cent thieves close to Modi, who own 60 per cent of th

Jamaat-Ul Mujahideen Bangladesh activist Mohammed Masiuddin alias Abu Musa has been questioned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Kolkata to probe a possible conspiracy being hatched by his Syria-based handler Sultan Abdul Kadir Armar to target American assets and nationals. This is

NEW DELHI: A 20-year-old girl, who was on a job search, was allegedly raped in a car in South Delhi’s Moti Bagh area. The victim was raped after she was lured into the car by the driver on the pretext of dropping her at her destination, in the vehicle, which apparently had a free run for hours in Lu

Petrol price was hiked by Rs 2.21 a litre and diesel by Rs. 1.79 per litre, excluding local levies, on Friday. The revised rates will take effect from midnight. Now, petrol in Delhi will cost Rs. 68.94 per litre from midnight as against Rs. 66.10 currently, said Indian Oil Corp, the nation’s lar

Days after Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said he would shortly release details of corruption involving the Prime Minister, he led a party delegation to meet Narendra Modi with a demand to waive all farm loans. Emerging from the meeting, Mr. Gandhi told journalists, "We met the Prime Minist

The Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY), a last-resort tax amnesty scheme that comes into effect from December 17, will allow assessees to disclose previously unaccounted and undeclared income under its ambit till March 31, 2017. The PMGKY permits voluntary declarations of previously undis

On Friday, the Supreme Court refused to interfere with Centre's order on Demonetisation. Calling the order as a 'matters of fiscal policies,' the court also ordered all high courts to put a stay on any proceedings regarding demonetisation and transfer the cases to the SC. "We are not inclined to gra