The Delhi Service Tax Commissionerate has arrested the chief financial officer (CFO) of an aviation company for evasion of service tax amounting to more than Rs.1 crore, the government said Monday. “The company provides helicopter chartering services,” the finance ministry said in a statement without naming the company. The official was arrested Saturday. The concerned […]
Delhi Metro Monday promised to remove an offending advertisement mounted on billboards showing a nude woman covered only by duct tape. A Metro official told one of the journalists who had complained about the advertisement that they were ready to act against it. “The advertisement will be removed from the Rajiv Chowk, Kashmere Gate and […]
Taxi operators in Himachal Pradesh went on a three-day strike Monday in protest the proposed hike in commercial taxes by the state government. Tourists in most of the towns were facing a lot of inconvenience following the strike, Monday morning reports from these places said. The supply of milk, curd and bread was severely affected […]
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said Monday that he was ready to protest for 10 days, and asked people and “honest policemen” to join his demonstration demanding action against five Delhi Police officers. “I have come prepared for 10 days to protest. If there is any chaos during the Republic Day, then the central government will […]
Infrastructure development is a key element in the strategy for developing the northeast and increasing the region’s connectivity with the rest of the country, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday. “Considerable progress is being made in each of the sectors reviewed today,” Manmohan Singh said at a meeting with the chief ministers of the northeast […]
Four landmines apparently planted by Maoists to blast police vehicles were recovered in Bokaro district in Jharkhand Monday, police said. The mines were concealed near the Gomia-Vanchatro road, around 130 km from Ranchi. They were defused. Maoists are active in 18 of the 22 districts in Jharkhand.
The autopsy report of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Minister Shashi Tharoor who died Friday, has been submitted to a sub-divisional magistrate (SDM), a doctor who conducted the post-mortem said Monday. “The report has been given to SDM Alok Sharma. It will reveal all the facts,” Sudhir Kumar Gupta, head of the department of forensic medicine […]
Pakistan has claimed diplomatic immunity for a truck driver who was arrested last week after his vehicle was found to be carrying over 100 kg of narcotics, an official said. Kashmir Divisional Commissioner Shailender Kumar told reporters here that the authorities at Salamabad trade facilitation centre on the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir’s […]
A 26-year-old Indian been jailed for three months for molesting a maid in the lift of an apartment building here. The Dubai Criminal Court was told that the juice bar worker, identified by his initials, MR, followed the maid into the lift and molested her while on his way to make a delivery at the […]
At least three Pakistani Taliban militants have been arrested in Bangladesh. According to the law enforcers, they came to reinvigorate the Islamist militant movement here. Two of them, aged between 25 and 50, had a laptop containing manuals on bomb making and operating firearms. They were detained Sunday night in front of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy […]