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…
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…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to noted scientist and former president A P J Abdul Kalam on his birth anniversary on Sunday, saying his incomparable contribution to nation-building will always be remembered respectfully. In a post on X, Modi said Kalam was loved by people due to his humble behaviour and special scientific…
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Sunday said it has attached land, windmills, silver and diamond jewellery and bullion worth more than Rs 315 crore as part of an alleged bank fraud linked money laundering probe against a former NCP MP from Maharashtra, his family and businesses. Ishwarlal Shankarlal Jain Lalwani (77), the former Rajya Sabha…
New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday announced its first list of party candidates for the Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Telangana assembly elections. While the party announced 144 party candidates for Madhya Pradesh elections, it announced 30 candidates for the Chhattisgarh polls and another 55 for Telangana assembly polls slated next month. In Madhya Pradesh, the…
Chennai: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Saturday demanded the immediate implementation of the Women’s Reservation Bill, allowing quota for women in legislative bodies, saying women have “no more time to waste.”. She was speaking at the Women’s Rights Conference organised by the DMK here. Today, there was much talk of empowerment as every political party…
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Saturday said no issue can be viewed in isolation, particularly in an interconnected world, even as the G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit (P20) saw leaders raising the West Asia conflict and other geo-political issues. In his closing statement at the P20 Summit, Birla noted that some members mentioned significant…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said he has written a new Garba song over the last few days and will share it with people during Navratri. Modi also thanked artistes Dhvani Bhanushali and Tanishk Bagchi and the team of Jjust Music for the musical rendition of another Garba song that he had penned…
New Delhi: The launch of a passenger ferry service from Tamil Nadu’s Nagapattinam to Kankesanthurai, near Jaffna, in Sri Lanka is a “truly big step” for boosting people-to-people ties between the two countries, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday. In his remarks at a virtual ceremony on the launch of the ferry service,…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said ferry service between India and Sri Lanka will enhance connectivity, promote trade, and reinforce the longstanding bonds between the two countries. In his message delivered virtually during the flag-off event of the ferry service from India’s Nagapattinam to Sri Lanka, he said that during the recent…
