Kolkata: Virtually all states have supported the idea of GST except Tamil Nadu which has “some reservations”, Finance minister Arun Jaitley said on Tuesday after a meeting of Empowered Committee of state FMs on the long awaited indirect tax reform. He said however that there was “no deadline as such”Read More

New Delhi: Days after BJP MP Hukum Singh stirred a hornet’s nest by presenting a list of 346 ‘Hindu’ families, who according to him were ‘forced’ to leave the Muslim-majority town of Kairana in Uttar Pradesh, it has now emerged that his ‘list’ included names of people who are deadRead More

Mumbai: Despite increased online surveillance, intelligence agencies and authorities have conceded that one of the most daunting challenges faced by them is tackling self styled jihadists. These jihadists carry out lone wolf attacks after being indoctrinated to extremist ideologies online. Citing credible sources, reported that the threat of lone wolfRead More

New Delhi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has defended himself by blaming Prime Minister Narendra Modi for withholding the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government’s bill exempting 21 parliamentary secretaries from their disqualification as MLAs because of the illegality of holding two offices of profit at once. Kejriwal said the PrimeRead More

New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee today evening rejected Delhi government’s attempt to modify a law that blocked the appointment of 21 AAP MLAs as parliamentary secretaries. The Delhi government had passed the amendment that exempted the post of parliamentary secretary from coming under the purview of ‘office of profit’. TheRead More

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party MP Amar Singh on Sunday alleged that BJP was opposing the movie ‘Udta Punjab’ as it would “expose” the fact that the party was involved in narcotics smuggling in the state. He also claimed that “narcotics smuggling racket” was behind the infiltration and subsequent attack on aRead More

New Delhi: Indebted tycoon Vijay Mallya on Sunday accused the government agencies of deeming him ‘guilty without trial’ and lambasted the country’s financial crime fighters for leading a ‘heavily biased’ investigation against him. The flamboyant 60-year-old beer baron left India in March for the UK, under hot pursuit from banksRead More

New Delhi: Former TERI chief R K Pachauri, who has been summoned as accused by a Delhi court in a sexual harassment case, has been allowed to travel to various countries to attend conferences and meetings till July 5. Metropolitan Magistrate Shivani Chauhan, who had taken cognisance of the chargeRead More

Bengaluru: Hoping for the return of his sister Judith, Jerome D’ Souza can’t stop himself from recalling the best moments he spent with his sister and family. Hoping that Ramzan will bring the family good news soon, D’Souza said that the entire family is praying for his sister’s return fromRead More

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Monday issued “Leave India” notices to ten Chinese nationals who were working on an expansion project of the Adani Group-controlled Dhamra Port Company Limited in Bhadrak district of the state, a government official said. “The state government has asked the Director of Intelligence and theRead More