Black money case: SC revives SIT to fast track probe
The Supreme Court Thursday breathed life into the Special Investigation Team (SIT) set up to monitor the probe into the black money case by reconstituting it and directing the government to issue the necessary notification in three weeks. The SIT, set up in 2011 to monitor the probe conducted by... read more »
Will quit public life if Modi can prove his claims: Ahmed Patel
NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s political secretary Ahmed Patel has strongly denied the claims made by BJP’s prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi in an interview given to Doordarshan. “I will quit public life, if Modi can prove I went to his house since he became... read more »
11 killed in militant attacks in Assam
GUWAHATI: Heavily armed NDFB (S) militants unleashed violence in two districts of Assam falling under Bodoland Territorial Administration area, killing 11 people, including three children, and leaving three others seriously injured since last night. A group of 20 to 25 NDFB-Songbijit militants,... read more »
Fiscal deficit likely to be around 4.5% of GDP in FY14
NEW DELHI: Fiscal deficit for 2013-14 is likely to be around 4.5 per cent of the GDP, marginally lower than 4.6 per cent that was mentioned in the interim budget for FY15, a senior Finance Ministry official said. “Fiscal deficit for the last fiscal year will be around 4.5 per cent,” the... read more »
Reliance Jio & RCom ink intra-city fibre deal
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. (RJIL), the 4G division of Reliance Industries which is owned by Mukesh Ambani has signed the third telecom infrastructure deal with Anil Ambani’s Reliance... read more »
Actress Kalki Koechlin : I, my close friends were sexually abused as children
Actress Kalki Koechlin is helping bring the difficult subject of child sexual abuse out in the open by speaking out about being abused herself as a little girl. Without divulging details of... read more »
Germany summons N Korean envoy over nuke threat
Germany’s Foreign Ministry said it summoned North Korea’s envoy in Berlin over Pyongyang’s threat to carry out another nuclear test. The Foreign Ministry says the summoning of... read more »
Congress president Sonia Gandhi declines to show her passport to U.S. court
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has declined to provide a copy of her passport to a US court, saying that government of India had denied her permission to do so. However, in a letter filed... read more »
Nagaland Lok Sabha polls on April 9
Nagaland goes to the polls on Wednesday for the lone Parliamentary seat which will see only three candidates — Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio (NPF), Congress’ KV Pusa and Akheu Achumi of Socialist... read more »
