New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to vacate the interim stay on the CBI’s investigation into the disproportionate assets case against Karnataka Deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar. A bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Bela M Trivedi issued notice to Shivakumar on a plea of the CBI challenging the June 12 order of…
New Delhi: The Income Tax department has seized Rs 94 crore in cash as well as gold and diamond jewellery worth Rs 8 crore and 30 luxury watches following raids on government contractors and real estate developers in Karnataka and some other states, the CBDT said on Monday. The searches were launched on October 12 and…
Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court on Monday acquitted Surendra Koli and Moninder Singh Pandher in the infamous Nithari serial killings case in Noida for lack of evidence. Both had been sentenced to death on charges of rape and murder. A two-judge bench comprising Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice SHA Rizvi allowed the appeals filed by…
New Delhi: Displaying the valour that best epitomises the people of the strife-torn nation, Afghanistan caused one of the biggest upsets in the history of World Cup as they outclassed defending champions England by 69 runs here on Sunday. The Afghans’ epic triumph against the overwhelming favourites, one of the game’s traditional heavyweights, was a…
Hyderabad: Kicking off the poll campaign for the BRS, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday said the party should return to power for the pace of development in Telangana to continue. In a rally at Husnabad, about 140 km from here, Rao, narrating his government’s achievements, said Telangana had become the number one state…
Mysuru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday said the farmers of the state have incurred a loss of Rs 30,000 crore due to drought this year. According to him, there is a crop loss of 42 lakh hectares and 216 out of 236 taluks of the state have been declared drought-hit. “There is crop loss…
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister and BRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday asked the party candidates to reach out to cadres during their poll campaign for the assembly elections to be held on November 30. Addressing the contesting candidates before handing over the B Forms, KCR said that except five or six, all sitting MLAs…
Washington: The United States is sending a second aircraft carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean “to deter hostile actions against Israel or any efforts toward widening this war following Hamas’s attack,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Saturday. The USS Eisenhower and its affiliated warships will join another carrier group already deployed to the…
Hyderabad: Telangana PCC president Revanth Reddy, Congress legislative party leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, former ministers Uttam Kumar Reddy, T Jeevan Reddy and Duddilla Sridhar Babu are among those figured in the first 55 contestants list released by AICC for the state assembly polls to be held on November 30. The Congress on Sunday announced its…
New Delhi: As India and the UK inch closer to sealing a free trade agreement, a forthcoming book says the pact is critical for India’s ambition to become a manufacturing powerhouse while the UK seeks to clinch new deals to highlight the benefits of Brexit. In his forthcoming book “The Reverse Swing-Colonialism to Cooperation”, veteran journalist…
