Kolkata: The Special Task Force of Kolkata Police has arrested four members of banned terror outfit Neo-JMB (Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh), including three Bangladeshi nationals from Kolkata, an officer said on Tuesday. Based on prior information, the STF officers arrested two Bangladeshi Nation

A small outlet selling steaming and spicy ‘kachoris’ - a popular snack in Uttar Pradesh - in a narrow lane of Aligarh has come under the lens of commercial tax department. Reason: The outlet’s owner Mukesh Kumar has a whopping annual turnover of around Rs 60-70 lakh but does not pay any tax. D

RANCHI: Twenty-two-year-old Tabrez Ansari on Sunday succumbed to his injuries in a hospital, a week after he was brutally thrashed by a mob at Dhatkidih village in Seraikela district over suspicion of stealing a bike. Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das has ordered a probe by a Special Investigati

MUMBAI: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor Viral Acharya on Monday told Mint he has quit his role, six months before the end of his tenure. "I have decided to leave six months early due to unavoidable personal reasons. So much to finish in the last month! I am sticking to my school teach

The kingpins of Bike Bot scheme duped 2.25 lakh investors of around ₹1,500 crore and diverted ₹650 crore to different accounts, before two of them were held by police earlier in June. The accused bought luxury cars, including Jaguar, Audi and Range Rover, from the money, police said, adding that fiv

Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking to increase the strength of judges and raise the retirement age of high court judges to 65 years. Gogoi has also urged the Prime Minister to make tenure appointments of retired apex court judges and high court

Mumbai: Maharashtra government will bring in a legislation to make teaching Marathi language compulsory in all schools in the state, including those affiliated to ICSE and CBSE, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said Thursday. Mr Fadnavis informed the Legislative Council that there is already a provi

Sacked Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt has been sentenced to life by a Jamnagar court in connection with a 30-year-old custodial death case. Another police officer Praveen Singh Jhala has also been sent to prison for life. The Supreme Court had last week refused to entertain Bhatt's plea s

NEW DELHI: The Upper House of Parliament is likely to take up the triple talaq bill, which criminalises instant divorce among Muslim community members, on Thursday. It may be recalled that the proceedings of the Rajya Sabha began soon after the President's joint address of the Parliament on Thurs

The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet on Tuesday approved an ordinance making it mandatory for new and existing private universities to give an undertaking that they will not be involved in “any anti-national activity”, The Times of India reported. Universities would also have to submit that they will not al

New Delhi: The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways on Tuesday decided to remove the requirement of minimum educational qualification for driving a transport vehicle. The process of amendment to Rule 8 of Central Motor Vehicles 1989 and the draft notification in this regard will be issued soon

Five days after a 19-year-old woman and her boyfriend sustained burn injuries after an alleged “chemical attack” in West Delhi’s Vikaspuri, police have arrested the woman for allegedly orchestrating the same. In the incident on June 11, the woman’s 24-year-old boyfriend, who was riding the two-wh

Lucknow: In a bid to promote Sanskrit, the Uttar Pradesh government will now issue press releases in Sanskrit along with Hindi, English and Urdu, an official said Tuesday. The first press note in Sanskrit was issued by the state government's Information Department on Monday. Senior officials

New Delhi: Seven-term Member of Parliament Virendra Kumar was sworn in as the pro tem speaker of the 17th Lok Sabha on Monday. Kumar will oversee the oath-taking of newly elected LS members on Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday, as soon as a new speaker of the 17th Lok Sabha is elected, his role wi

New Delhi: Tightening the screw on tax evaders, the revised guidelines issued by the Income Tax (I-T) Department have made serious offences under black money and benami laws "generally" non-compoundable. This means that a person or entity would not be able to settle a case of tax evasion by just

New Delhi: The government on Thursday announced a cut in contributions made by employers and employees towards social security and health insurance scheme Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) to 4 per cent from 6.5 per cent. The move would lead to an estimated annual savings of around Rs 5,

New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, also a renowned economist, will be missed in the upcoming Budget session of the Parliament as his nearly 30-year-long tenure as a Rajya Sabha member ended on Friday. Singh, who is credited with keeping India away from the great recession of 2008, woul

KOLKATA: Kolkata Mayor and West Bengal minister Firhad Hakim's daughter, a doctor, has come up with strong criticism of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's handling of the onging doctors' strike and said medicos have the right to "peaceful protest" and "safety at work. In a Facebook post, Shabba Hak