In response to a question on India' s vote on resolution A/HRC/29/L.35 in the Human Rights Council today'', the Official Spokesperson said : 'There is no change in India's long standing position on support to the Palestinian cause. The issue in this particular Resolution was the reference to the International criminal court.

"Musicians play their instruments, I play the orchestra" is how Michael Fassbender's Steve Jobs describes his genius in the newly released trailer of the upcoming biopic on Apple co-founder. 

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras has called on voters to reject "blackmail" when they vote in a bailout referendum on Sunday.

A powerful live bomb was found today at Torbung village in Manipur's Bishnupur district located on NH 150, which connects Imphal to Mizoram, 

Two female suicide bombers killed 13 people at a crowded market and a military checkpoint outside the biggest city in northeast Nigeria, witnesses said today. 

Undisclosed overseas assets such as immovable property, jewellery, shares and art works will be valued at fair market price for the purpose of tax and penalty under the new black money law. 

The ongoing resident doctors' strike in Maharashtra has been called off. 

 Queen Elizabeth II today led a nationwide tribute, observing a minute's silence for the 38 tourists, mostly British, massacred in an Islamist attack on a Tunisian beach. 

A top Tunisian jihadist and associate of late Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by a US airstrike in Libya last month Seifallah Ben Hassine, listed as a "global terrorist" by the US, was killed mid-June in an airstrike that targeted a top Al Qaeda-linked Islamist, The New York Times reported. 

A top Tunisian jihadist and associate of late Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by a US airstrike in Libya last month Seifallah Ben Hassine, listed as a "global terrorist" by the US, was killed mid-June in an airstrike that targeted a top Al Qaeda-linked Islamist, The New York Times reported. 

The Ministry of External Affairs on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Russia's Ufa for the BRICS Summit next week and also pay a visit to five Central Asian countries including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.


"The PM will be going to Ufa for BRICS after visiting two Central Asian countries. And on his way back from UFA, he'll be visiting three Central Asian countries," Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Secretary (West) Navtej Sarna said.


"The first country PM visits on July 7 is Uzbekistan. This will be followed by Kazakhstan. And then Prime Minister will be going to Ufa for BRICS. On his way back from BRICS Summit, PM will go to Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in that order," he added.


Prime Minister Modi will also be attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit happening in Ufa.

Can you find a world leader who has met generations of Indian politicians, most US Presidents, European head of States, several Popes, celebrated cricketers, Hollywood and Bollywood stars, some of the greatest scientists and many ordinary people, including what he calls, "Chinese brothers and sisters?' Claude Arpi salutes His Holiness the Dalai Lama as he turns 80. Read

The Centre has notified the rules for calculating overseas income and assets under the stringent foreign black money law that came into force on July 1, 2015.


The value of the overseas assets, including immovable property, jewellery and precious stones, archaeological collections and paintings, shares and securities and shares in unlisted firms abroad will be calculated at the fair market value, the rules notified by the CBDT said on Friday.


The value of an overseas bank account will be the sum of all deposits made in the account since its opening, the rules said.


The Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015, provides for a total of tax and penalty of 120 per cent on the income or assets held abroad after the expiry of a one-time 90-day "compliance window" provided for persons to come clean.


Any income or asset declared during this period, which ends on September 30, would attract a total of 60 per cent tax and penalty, without penal provisions like jail term. They will have time till December 31 to pay the levies.


The rules notified on Friday provide for the way foreign income and assets would be valued for calculation of tax and penalty both for the compliance period and beyond its expiry.


The fair market value of an immovable property will be higher from the acquisition cost or the price that the property shall fetch in open market on the date of valuation.


The same principle would also be applicable for valuing bullion, jewellery or precious stone as well as archaeological collections, drawings, paintings and sculptures or work of art.

U.S. Surgeon General ‏@Surgeon_General tweets: #TBT to @indiaabroad #IAPOY. Humbled to be surrounded by so many young promising leaders.


Dr Vivek H Murthy, the first Indian American and the youngest ever (at age 37) to be appointed United States Surgeon General, is the India Abroad Person of the Year 2014. The India Abroad Person of the Year Awards, held at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City on Friday June 12, honoured 14 achievers in seven categories -- with the youngest awardees aged 13 and the oldest awardee in his 70s.

In deciding to visit all the Central Asian Republics (CARs) together, which none of his predecessors has done, Prime Minister Modi hopefully intends to take a holistic view of India's relations with Central Asia. It is imperative that, beyond the usual bilateral discussions and agreements, he views the region from a strategic perspective, taking into account developments in the wider Eurasian space. Read more

10 Chinese trawlers sought shelter in India due to bad weather. The trawlers are presently anchored in South of Diu Island. India lent help on humanitarian grounds, reports ANI.

Shark! by Peter Benchley, the article that inspired Jaws. Read It's so academic, it's impossible it imagine that it lent itself to a film that's ensured people stayed away from beaches after the film was released.

Reuters reports that Europe's Airbus Group and India's Mahindra Group have struck a deal to build helicopters jointly as they bid to win an expected wave of orders from the country's armed forces, the companies said in a statement on Friday.


The two groups will form a joint venture in the coming months, aiming to become the first private manufacturer of helicopters in India, the statement said. It did not say how much the two will invest.  Read

The Narendra Modi government's credibility is at serious risk on three fronts: corruption, communalism and dissent. Under a seemingly placid surface, undercurrents are taking shape which, if not checked, have the ability to derail the government. The aggressiveness of its own supporters, the low credibility of the opposition and the drumbeat of its own propaganda may blind the government to them. But it would be foolish not to heed the warning signs.

Read Pratap Bhanu Mehta's piece for the Indian Express.

It's a promise the Congress will keep. The party will not allow Parliament to function when it meets later this month unless top BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj and Vasundhara Raje are removed from office for the favours extended to disgraced cricket mogul Lalit Modi, said senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad today.


The strategy has not found favour so far with other Opposition parties. "They should prove they are not compromising with their principles by siding with the ruling party," Azad said.


The party is steadfast in its demand for the resignation of Sushma Swaraj and Vasundhara Raje," Azad told NDTV about the BJP leaders who furthered Lalit Modi's case with UK immigration officials while he avoided returning home to face corruption charges.

The government has decided to recognise the service offered by rag pickers, who will be honoured with a national award for their contribution to keep India clean.


"There are millions of rag pickers in the country. This informal sector has saved the country. They are doing a good job and I have decided to recognise their efforts. We will grant national award," Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said at an event on waste management.


The national award, with a cash prize of Rs 1.5 lakh, will be given to three best rag pickers and three associations involved in innovation of best practices, he added.


Stating that rag pickers are helping to some extent in handling waste, the Minister pitched for setting up of a credible agency like Delhi Metro Rail Corporation that can guide municipal bodies to take measures to address waste management in a scientific way.

Just 4.6 per cent of all rural households in the country pay income tax while such households with salaried income are close to 10 per cent, the first Socio Economic and Caste Census released in eight decades said today.


The percentage of SC households paying income tax was 3.49 per cent ST tax-paying rural households were mere 3.34 per cent, the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 said.


Releasing the Census, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the data will help in better targeting of government policies.

Around 73 per cent of households in India are rural, according to the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) data released by the government today.


The Hindu reports that of these, 18.5 per cent are scheduled caste households and 11 per cent belong to the scheduled tribe category.


The SECC, jointly released by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Minister Chaudhary Birendra Singh, also shows that the bulk of India's rural households subsist on very low incomes.


According to the data, 74.5% of rural households have an income of the highest earning member below Rs. 5000 per month. Only 8.3% of rural households have an income of the highest earning member above Rs. 10,000 per month.


Only the provisional data pertaining to rural India was released on Friday. The Census also provides data on households regarding various aspects of their socio-economic status-housing, land-holding/landlessness, educational status, status of women, the differently-abled, occupation, possession of assets, SC/ST households, incomes, etc.

Amidst allegations of its principal trying to protect the accused, HRD ministry today refused to intervene in the molestation row at St Stephen's College, saying such issues are to be handled by the institution's Internal Complaints Committee as per Supreme Court guidelines.


Ministry officials, however, said that the college has been asked to "expedite its probe to ensure justice is done".


"As per the Supreme Court's guidelines, every institution is supposed to have an Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) to deal with complaints of sexual harassment. The issue at St Stephen's has to be handled by the committee," officials in the HRD ministry said.


A research scholar at St Stephen's had approached police on June 19 alleging that she was molested by Satish Kumar, a professor in the college's Chemistry department.

Would you believe Lisa Ray is 43! The gorgeous @Lisaraniray tweets her GQ cover shot.

"Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Cte d'AzurPick up @gqindia for a celebration of my pioneer pin up days shot by @farrokhchothia and styled by #vijendrabharadwaj."


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After former Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar, another AAP legislator Bhavna Gaur has come under scanner over her educational qualifications with a Delhi court taking cognisance of a complaint seeking criminal prosecution of the MLA for allegedly furnishing false details in the affidavits for Assembly polls.


Metropolitan Magistrate Pankaj Sharma admitted the complaint which alleged discrepancies in details related to educational qualifications in her affidavits filed with the Election Commission in last two Assembly polls held here in December 2013 and February 2015.


The development comes less than a month after another AAP MLA Jitender Singh Tomar was arrested and had to resign as law minister over charge of having fake degrees.

A man has been arrested for getting an Aadhaar card made of his dog in the district, police said. Azam Khan (35), who is working as a supervisor at an Aadhaar enrollment agency in Umri town, about 45 km from the district headquarters, was arrested yesterday following a complaint that he had made an Aadhaar card for his dog.


The dog's Aadhaar card reads: 'Tommy Singh', s/o Sheru Singh, Year of 26/11/2009 and sex as male, he said.


The matter came to light when the locals complained to the Umri Police that they were facing lot of problems in registering for Aadhaar card, while, they alleged that the agency was issuing cards in the names of dogs and other animals.


Following a probe, Khan was arrested and a case of forgery was registered against him. Police is further investigating the matter to know whether the accused had made more such cards.

Slamming the AAP government for drawing up a whopping Rs 526 crore advertisement budget, Congress leader Ajay Kumar today compared Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to a "North Korean dictator who is into self- publicity".


The AAP government has come under attack over the size of its information and publicity budget for 2015-16 and Kumar, in a fresh salvo, said that the money was being set aside only "to continue the single-man, hero-worshipping cult culture of Arvind Kejriwal".


"This money could have been spent for treating patients or creating hospitals, beds, schools, roads. Why is it (being spent) when publicity of Delhi government was being managed in Rs 30-40 crores and was more than adequate," he said, adding that there is a Supreme Curt ruling on government advertising.


"Kejriwal is turning out to be like a North Korean dictator who is into self-publicity and self-promotion," Kumar said.


BJP, too, had yesterday attacked the AAP government for allocating such a "huge" sum for advertisement, charging that it was also a kind of corruption.


Weighing in against the Kejriwal government, former AAP leader Prashant Bhushan alleged that its new FM radio advertisement was in contempt of court and that the matter would soon be brought to the notice of the apex court.


Delhi government, meanwhile, has strongly defended the allocation, arguing that a separate head has been created for the first time for publicity and advertisement and that the figure may be less than the amount spent in previous years by various departments.


The Supreme Court recently banned use of pictures of chief ministers and other political personalities on advertisements, billboards or hoardings of government schemes. The Prime Minister and the President are the only exceptions to the rule.

Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje visits the family injured in the accident involving BJP MP Hema Malini. 

The buzz over Coldplay front man Chris Martin's impromptu gig at a Delhi's Summer Smoke House bar hasn't died yet with the lucky ones who witnessed the jam session, going crazy on Twitter bragging about the night.

But that's what you know.


What you didn't know was that the 38-year-old singer also posed with Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and Hollywood actress and India export Freida Pinto.
Lucky man.

Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje reaches Fortis Hospital in Jaipur to meet BJP MP Hema Malini. Raje also met the family injured in the accident and the parents of the deceased child.

Taking a dig at Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for allegedly delaying an Air India flight after an official in his team forgot to carry proper travel documents, alliance partner Shiv Sena today asked if similar "social work" would be done for an ill person as well.

"Pardeshi was a part of the delegation led by Fadnavis. Thus the flight was delayed and Pardeshi was allowed to get his visa from his home following which the flight took off. Will the social work of bending rules be done in a similar way for a common man who is ill or handicapped?" the Sena asked in an editorial in party mouthpiece 'Saamana'.


Principal Secretary Praveen Pardeshi, despite having forgotten his visa at home, was given clearance at the Customs and Immigration counters, the Sena alleged and said that "the biggest threat to people's security comes from such VIP delegations."


As per media reports, Pardeshi was cleared at the check-in, but was held back before boarding as the passport he was carrying did not have the valid US visa. He apparently had a valid US visa in his old passport but this was not reflected in the new one he was carrying. He arranged to bring his old passport which had valid US visa stamp after which he was allowed to board the aircraft.


"The allegation that I forced delay of the flight to Newark is false and misleading," Fadnavis had earlier said.


The ruling alliance partner also said that the amount of business and investments that chief ministers bring back from their foreign tours is a matter of debate.


"Nowadays many CMs, like Fadnavis, are visiting foreign countries to gather investments for their states. But, why are CMs only running to foreign nations for investments and what is the actual business and investments they are bringing back should be a matter of debate," it said.


Foreign investment is a kind of "maze", the Sena said and questioned the amount of investments that chief ministers have been successful in bringing back from tours abroad.

Medical bulletin on BJP MP and union minister Hema Malini says that she sustained a nasal fracture and injuries on para-nasal points. She's in the ICU, but stable now, a Fortis hospital doctor, said.


The driver wasn't injured because the airbags in the Mercedes were deployed, but Hema Malini, who was sitting in the back seat, hit the LCD TV screen on the back rest of the front seat, the police said.


The Fortis report also said that Hema Malini underwent surgery between midnight and 2 am today. "She's fully conscious and is recovering fast, the doctor said.


The six -year-old child injured in the accident with Hema Malini's car sustained fractures in both legs.


Hema's husband, actor Dharmendra is yet to arrive, but her daughter Esha Deol has reached Jaipur. The BJP MP will not be discharged today.


A child was killed and four others injured, when Hema Malini's car collided with a Maruti Suzuki Alto in Dausa, Rajasthan.

Just in: A car in Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu's convoy rammed into a building causing the death of one person, reports Times Now.


Just last evening, a child was killed and four others, including veteran Bollywood actress and Mathura MP Hema Malini, were injured in a road accident on Thursday evening in Dausa district of Rajasthan. The accident took place when Hema Malini's Mercedes car collided with a Maruti Suzuki Alto.  Read more

Even as Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje faces the worst crises in her political career, Dushyant Singh is vacationing with his wife and children at an undisclosed location abroad. Read 

Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was allegedly directly involved in the plan hatched to eliminate his rival Chhota Rajan, claim reports. Media sources quoted officials as saying that Dawood had sent his trusted aide Chhota Shakeel to Australia in April end to personally lead the attack.

It is a matter of considerable satisfaction that within days of the Madras High Court passing an indefensible order asking the perpetrator and the victim in a rape case to opt for mediation, the Supreme Court has restated strongly that rape is an offence that does not brook any compromise. Read

Last year, he was the BJP's darling. Today, Arnab Goswami is a hated figure for Modi bhakts. What changed? Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com on how the BJP's Internet trolls strangle dissent. Read

Rafael Nadal insisted he has no intentions of quitting tennis despite slumping to a fourth successive Wimbledon humiliation.


The 29-year-old Spaniard, who was Wimbledon champion in 2008 and 2010 and runner-up in 2006, 2007 and 2011, was humbled 7-5, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 by dreadlocked German Dustin Brown, the world number 102, in the second round.


Brown, who once was so short of cash that he travelled to tournaments in a camper van, hit 13 aces and 58 winners on the back of a free-hitting, serve-and-volley barrage.


It was 29-year-old Nadal's first ever defeat to a qualifier at a Grand Slam and came in the aftermath of losing his French Open crown where he had been champion nine times.


Thursday's loss followed his 2012 second round exit to world 100 Lukas Rosol, a first round beating by the 135-ranked Steve Darcis in 2013 and last year's fourth round defeat to Nick Kyrgios, who was at 144.

The Supreme Court today sought a response from the Kerala government on Tamil Nadu's plea that the security of Mullaperiyar dam be handed over to CISF.

The Tamil Nadu government has told the SC that the dam faced a terror threat.

A bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu issue notice on the plea which also sought that the Kerala government be not allowed to seek environmental clearance from the Ministry of Environment and Forests for constructing a new dam.


Tamil Nadu, in its one of the applications, has sought a direction from the court that Kerala be restrained from conducting the environment impact assessment for its new proposed dam at the site.


Read: What is the Mullaperiyar dam issue?

The Delhi High Cour seeks a reply from the police on the plea of St Stephen's Professor Satish Kumar seeking anticipatory bail in molestation case, but stays the arrest till August 17.


The Hindustan Times reports that trouble may escalate  for St Stephen's College principal Valson Thampu after a research student on Thursday released audio recordings of him purportedly asking her to withdraw a sexual harassment complaint against a professor.

The complainant released four sets of audio clips in which Thampu allegedly influenced her to water down her complaint. The victim, a PhD student has handed over these recordings to the police.

"Trust in God. You have to take that complaint back, If you don't do it today itself there will be complication ( sic)," Thampu is heard telling her.

The Union government on Friday released the socio-economic caste census, saying the data will help in identifying the root causes of poverty.


Addressing mediapersons at the event, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the socio-economic caste census would give better data for household growth.


The Finance Minister also said that the data will help the government in targeting section of people for policy planning.


After identifying the root cause of poverty with the help of the census, the government plans to use ongoing schemes such as National Housing Mission, National Rural Health Employment Guarantee Scheme and Indira Aawas Yojana to address the issues.


According to Union Minister for Rural Development Birender Singh, the government will use the caste census for better data on household growth.

Two passengers travelling on the same US-bound Air India aircraft from Mumbai as Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis have come out in his support, saying he did not delay the flight even as he has threatened legal action once he returns to India.


An angry Fadnavis had tweeted yesterday that he would file for defamation once he was back in the country over the controversy of his delegation delaying the Air India flight from Mumbai to New York on June 29.


"Enough is enough. Once I'm back to India I will initiate proceedings of criminal defamation," he had tweeted. Following the tweets by the Chief Minister, two persons on the same flight took to the micro-blogging site to support him saying he did not delay the flight.


"@Dev_Fadnavis I was present in the flight AI 191. CM and delegation reached in time. Flight delayed due to immigration problem," a user by the name of Dushyant tweeted.


According to his Twitter profile @dushyantkagarwa, he is an author and freelance journalist based in Udaipur.


Another Twitter user Arvind Shah tweeted, "@Dev_Fadnavis I was in AI 191 and sitting behind CM in seat (8D), He neither called or try to delay flight, he was busy reading file".


Both the tweets were retweeted by Fadnavis, who had first denied the allegation that he had forced to delay the flight to New York in a tweet on June 30. He had said the allegations were "false & misleading".

In Christine Mehta's account of how she was deported from India last November, published in The Hindu on Thursday, there is a telling line. "India's progressive visa policy makes living and working in India easy for most second and third generation Indians living abroad, except for those working in environmental and human rights," the Amnesty International India researcher writes.


It reveals the uneasy relationship the State has with research, particularly on human rights undertaken by non-governmental organisations. The work has to pass muster with the Home Affairs Ministry.

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Maharashtra has set a wrong precedent by extending legislative privileges. Read more

If Dholpur had an official animal, it had to be the donkey.

They are everywhere: this sleepy eastern Rajasthan city of 1.3 lakh has stray donkeys like other cities have street dogs.Some are pet donkeys, used for transport. Herds of them stand stoically inside buildings constructed in a Maru Gurjara-cum-Islamic style that house state institutions here, witnessing court proceedings and land registrations in a city yet to come out of its feudal moorings.

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Dushyant Singh, son of Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, on Thursday sent a legal notice to Times Now naming Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami and Director of Times Group, Vineet Jain, accusing the channel of making "false and defamatory statements' and demanded a retraction.


The notice alleges that in the channel's 'Newshour' debate on June 29, Arnab Goswani had said that the property -- City Palace of Dholpur, is a government property and the same was wrongly claimed by Singh as his and therefore it should be snatched away by the government.  Read more

Just in: 11 school children have been injured in freak accident in Rajasthan after a live wire falls on the roof of the bus setting it on fire, reports NDTV. Details awaited.

Terming his meeting with India-born Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella as "very productive" and "insightful", Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has said the software giant will extend support for a digital village and smart city in the state.

Fadnavis, who is on a week-long visit to the US, met Nadella in Seattle yesterday. He tweeted a picture of him with the Microsoft CEO and said, "Had a very productive meeting and insightful discussion with @Microsoft CEO @satyanadella at Microsoft in Seattle".

He said Microsoft has agreed for a "Digital Village" and for technology support to provide health care services in remote tribal areas in Maharashtra, with a pilot programme to come up at Melghat in Amravati district. The technology major also agreed to develop a smart city, similar to the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation and will set up a cyber security centre at Pune, Fadnavis said in his tweet.

He also met Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Raymond Conner and "discussed expansion of operations at MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul) plant in Mihan, Nagpur. He spoke on Maharashtra's initiatives for expansion of aviation infrastructure and future requirements of aeroplanes, according to a tweet by his office. "@Boeing agreed to take hard look at Nagpur MRO for greater direct expansion and also to steer training initiatives in Nagpur & Maharashtra," he tweeted.

Photograph: @Dev_Fadnavis/Twitter

In yet another setback for India-born former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta, a federal US judge has rejected his appeal to overturn his two-year sentence and conviction on insider trading, rejecting his plea that there was "insufficient" evidence of him receiving "personal benefit" in exchange for providing tips.

District Judge Jed Rakoff said in a nine-page ruling issued yesterday in the Southern District Court that Gupta's argument that the evidence of personal benefits presented at the trial was insufficient to sustain his conviction calling it "both too late and too little".

Gupta, 66, was convicted in 2012 of passing confidential boardroom information to now jailed hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam. He appealed his conviction on various grounds, but the US federal court of appeals and even the Supreme Court rejected his arguments and affirmed the conviction.

Gupta is currently serving a two-year prison term in a federal prison in Massachusetts state and is scheduled to be released in March next year. In his new appeal, Gupta cited the appeals court's recent decision in which it reversed the insider convictions of hedge-fund managers Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson.

In the landmark ruling, the appeals court had ruled that for an insider trading conviction prosecutors must show that a defendant received a personal benefit for passing illegal tips.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will release the first caste-based census at North Block today.

The finance ministry will tap into the data from the socio-economic and caste census to identify beneficiary and expand the direct benefit transfer scheme as part of its plans to build upon the JAM (Jan Dhan-Aadhaar-Mobile number) trinity.

The census was launched in 2011 and compiled data till 2013 on rural households on parameters such as sources of income and assets.

The data is collected through door to door enumeration of households and is used for targeting of government policies, according to a report in The Indian Express. 

The Economic Survey 2014 as well as the Union Budget 2015-16 discussed the JAM trinity and its ability to improve transfer of subsidies by cutting down on leakages.

Rahul Yadav, the recently-ousted CEO of Housing.com, says he is too logical about the venture he co-founded three years ago.

Yadav remains supremely confident of his instincts and capabilities, and is convinced he is destinys child. I think whatever the world is today, it is because of a few people. These people bring in change and the world follows them for the next few decades. We at Housing.com are like that, Yadav said.

Read the full interview here

Every day, five women are raped, 12 are molested, two persons are murdered and 26 more are targeted by snatchers in the capital, a crime-mapping by Delhi police's crime branch has revealed.

Rattled by the rising crime graph in certain areas of the capital, Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi recently directed the crime branch to crime-map the most-vulnerable spots, The Indian Express reports. 

He then directed all the district heads concerned to deploy adequate number of police personnel in these spots.

Read the full report here

In the first such action, the Enforcement Directoratehas attached 1,280 acres of land in the United States in connection with one of the biggest bank loan frauds in the country.

The unprecedented move to attach the land in California worth Rs 1,000 crore was initiated by the ED's Ahmedabad zonal unit. "ED Indore attaches under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act 1,280 acres of land in California, USA, of Zoom Developers Pvt Ltd and Vijay Chaudhary in bank fraud cases," the central agency tweeted today.

ED officials said that it is for the first time that the agency had taken such an action in the US.

Actor and BJP MP Hema Malini's driver has been arrested after an accident last night in Rajasthan in which a child was killed. A first information report was registered against him.

The BJP leader's Mercedes was speeding and hit a Maruti Alto leading to the death of four-year-old girl who was travelling with her parents, the police said.

Hema Malini is not seriously hurt. The girl's parents and another young child who were in the Alto have been hospitalised.

Vajpayee called Gujarat riots a 'mistake': ex-RAW chief Dulat