New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) The AAP Monday accused the central government of being “selective” in revealing names of foreign bank account holders, asking it to make public all those with money stashed abroad. Addressing a press conference here, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal said the government was not disclosing all the names because […]
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) Behind the step-by-step approach in the government’s disclosure of names of foreign bank account holders is the confidentiality clause under the Double Taxation Avoidance Treaty (DTAT) that prevents making public the identity of the account holders. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had earlier said the names of persons would be disclosed as […]
Ghaziabad, Oct 27 (IANS) Train movement between Ghaziabad and Delhi was disrupted for about two hours after a railway employee was crushed to death by an EMU train. The accident occurred at 12.30 p.m. Monday at the Sahibabad railway station when gangman Faiz Nath was working on the track and was run over by a Ghaziabad-New […]
Lucknow, Oct 21 (IANS) Led by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, Uttar Pradesh will participate in the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Jan 9, 2015 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, Chief Secretary Alok Ranjan said here Tuesday. Presiding over the preparatory meeting for the state’s participation in the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, he said that the Uttar Pradesh government is “sensitive and […]
Hyderabad, Oct 19 (IANS) After its impressive debut in Maharashtra, Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) will now focus on Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and other states, said party president AAsaduddin Owaisi. The party, which won two seats in Maharashtra in its first attempt to expand its base outside Hyderabad, plans to open its branches and actively participate […]
Panaji, Oct 19 (IANS) A 23-year-old Russian woman was molested, beaten up and robbed at Baga beach, one of Goa’s most popular beaches, police said Sunday. The victim was walking along the beach, located 20 km from Panaji, when unknown assailants, slapped her, tore her clothes, and robbed her gold chain worth Rs. 33000 late Saturday, […]
New Delhi, Oct 19 (IANS) A 70-year-old woman, who lived alone, was found beaten to death in her home Sunday evening, police said. The body of Suman Bala Bhatnagar, ex-official of the foreign ministry, was discovered by a tenant in her Preet Vihar area house in east Delhi at around 4 p.m. “It seemed that Bhatnagar […]
Mumbai/Chandigarh, Oct 19 (IANS) The BJP Sunday created history in Haryana by getting a clear majority on its own for the first time and said that it would form the government in Maharashtra too where it finished the single largest group in a hung assembly but has been offered support by the NCP. The Congress was […]
New Delhi, Oct 19 (IANS) Delhi Police have arrested three people, including two Sri Lankans, from Chennai for peddling contraband drugs, police said Sunday. Delhi Police Special Cell sleuths arrested Mayelerum Perumal alias Mailu of Tamil Nadu along with Jawzeek and Mohammad Razik of Sri Lanka from Chennai Saturday in a trans-national operation against narcotics. A […]
Kolkata, Oct 18 (IANS) Deepak Shodhan, the oldest living Indian Test cricketer, and Krishnamachari Srikkanth, the first One-Day International (ODI) centurion for India at the Eden Gardens, Saturday re-lived their odyssey with the iconic ground to mark the celebration of its 150 years. Shodhan, the first Indian Test centurion on debut, and Srikkanth unveiled a booklet […]