Violence returned to West Bengal’s Bhangar on Tuesday, only three days after a peace rally was organised by the Trinamool Congress, as the leaders of the anti-power grid movement in the area accused the ruling party of attacking and terrorising villagers. “The miscreants’ group backed by local Trinamool Congress leader Arabul Islam attacked the villagers […]
The Ghaziabad court was shut on Tuesday following noisy protests by a section of lawyers protesting against the removal by police of a statue of Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar from the court compound. The court’s functioning came to a halt as the deployment of security forces was so massive that litigants were sent back from […]
The new indirect tax regime of GST does not envisage a single slab taxation rate structure as found in some developed economies, Parliament was informed on Tuesday. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in the Rajya Sabha during Question Hour that countries which had applied a uniform tax rate on all commodities are nations where the […]
AIUDF President and Lok Sabha MP from Dhubri Badruddin Ajmal on Tuesday said he will request the Supreme Court to direct the authorities to expedite the process for issuing the second list of Assam citizens, after he found his and his kin’s names missing from the first list issued on Sunday. He said his party, […]
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Tuesday that the Narendra Modi-government has not written off any corporate loans and such assumptions were just “misconceptions”. “Let me clarify that neither the government nor the banks wrote off any loans,” Jaitley told the Rajya Sabha in response to a question that the government had reportedly written […]
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Tuesday that the electoral bonds will bring a substantial amount of transparency in political donations against the present system of such contributions. He told the Lok Sabha that the bonds can be given only to a registered political party. “The element of transparency is that the donors who buy […]
A 37-year-old former Army officer on Tuesday bludgeoned six persons, including two women, to death in just two hours in Haryana’s Palwal district, police said. The accused has been arrested. Naresh Dhankar, a former Army Lieutenant who took voluntary retirement on medical grounds in 2003, was arrested from Adarsh Nagar here, Inspector General of Police […]
A Bill for setting up a National Medical Commission to replace the Medical Council of India (MCI) was sent to a standing committee of Parliament on Tuesday after request from several opposition parties, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar informed the Lok Sabha. He also urged the Speaker to instruct the committee to give its report […]
`Angry Dalits staged rail and road blockades and took out processions in Mumbai and carried out agitations in different parts of Maharashtra on Tuesday to protest against violence in Pune a day ago which left one youth dead. The Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh, a Dalit party headed by Prakash Ambedkar – the grandson of Bharat Ratna […]
ngry Venezuelans took to the streets after President Nicolas Maduro accused Portugal of being behind a pork shortage that left thousands of the country’s poor without their traditional Christmas dinner, the media reported. On Wednesday night, Maduro announced that he had been unable to distribute thousands of pork hind legs to the poorest neighbourhoods in […]