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

J Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and one of India’s most charismatic leaders passed away at 11:30 PM on Monday in Chennai. She was 68-year-old. Jayalalithaa had suffered a cardiac arrest on Sunday evening and was rushed to the ICU. The 68-years-old politician who was under the watch

The new Rs20 and Rs50 notes come against the backdrop of the government last month scrapping Rs500 and Rs1000 currency notes to crack down on black money New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Sunday said it will issue new currency notes of Rs20 and Rs50 denominations with numerals in ascend

CHENNAI:  After Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa had a cardiac arrest this evening, arrangements have been made to airlift anti-riot police to Tamil Nadu if needed, said Press Trust of India. The news agency said that nine units of the Rapid Action Force with about 100 members each would be airlifte

Nagpur: Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray today met RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat here. Thackeray, who arrived here this morning, drove to the RSS headquarters where he met Bhagwat. Their meeting lasted for about an hour. What transpired between the two leaders is not known, but Sangh sources cla

Amritsar: In a hard hitting attack on Pakistan, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday accused it of launching an “undeclared war” on his country by covertly supporting several terror networks including the Taliban, and noted that there were no hidden deals in India’s growing engagement in the war-

Veteran poet and former Rajya Sabha MP Bekal Utsahi passed away at Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital on Saturday. He was admitted in the hospital on December 1 following brain haemmorhage. He was 88. ANI quoted poet Ashok Chakradhar as saying: “He was like a father to me, so it is a personal loss.

SRINAGAR | NEW DELHI: On a day when General Qamar Javed Bajwa took over as the new Pak Army Chief, militants struck at two locations in Jammu, leading to firefights that left seven Army personnel dead and at least six militants killed. Several security personnel, including a BSF DIG, have also been

Mumbai: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) on Monday registered a victory by winning 08 wards in the Municipal Council election of Umerkhed, Yavatmal district of Maharashra’s Vidarbha region, reports ummid.com The report further said that AIMIM with 08 seats is so far is the highest tal