23:43
Bill Gates says he has paid more than $10 billion in taxes over a lifetime but billionaires like him should pay significantly more because they benefit more from the system.The Microsoft co-founder, the world's second richest man after Amazon's Jeff Bezos, was critical of a recent US tax overhaul...
23:24
Investors in a luxury property development in India are being offered the chance to have conversation and dinner with Donald Trump Jr.The eldest son of the US president is visiting India this week and will promote the Trump Towers development near Delhi.Critics say the Trump family is cashing in...
22:59
Embroiled in a major fraud, state-owned PNB today assured all its customers that enough arrangements for their banking transactions without any inconvenience, and it has sufficient assets to meet any liability.Replying to clarifications sought by stock exchanges, the Punjab National Bank said:...
22:21
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday raised the issues of 'beef ban' in the country, saying one can eat beef if he wants, but why to have festival for the same.You want to eat beef, then eat. Why festival? Similarly, a 'kiss festival', if you wish to kiss why do you need a festival or...
22:04
The Goa Police detained a local journalist in connection with an alleged false news item about the health of Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar who is admitted in a Mumbai hospital for treatment of a pancreatic ailment. Parrikar is being treated at the Lilavati...
21:34
US President Donald Trump signalled support today for a bipartisan effort to improve a national system of background checks for gun purchases in the wake of the Florida school shooting.While discussions are ongoing and revisions are being considered, the president is supportive of efforts to...
21:29
JUST IN: CBI arrests three more officers of Punjab National Bank in Rs 11,384 crore scam
21:26
The Congress today described as an eyewash the raids by agencies in the Rs 11,400-crore PNB bank fraud and said the prime minister and the finance minister should answer the country on how the scam happened and the accused escaped, instead of creating a smoke-screen.Congress spokesperson Manish...
21:10
JUST IN: Pakistan Senate has approved motion to declare Chinese as an official language: Pakistan Media
20:59
The state of emergency in trouble-torn Maldives was today extended by 30 days after the a key parliamentary committee approved President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom's request, a media report said, allowing him to reinforce his power in the picturesque Indian Oceanisland nation.President Yameen...
20:30
Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK today called for an all-party meet on February 22 to discuss the Supreme Court verdict on the Cauvery issue, scuttling the opposition DMK's plan for a similar discussion. The announcement comes a day after the DMK said it had...
20:13
Continuing its winning run in the 2017 assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday grabbed power in 47 municipalities out of 75 in the civic elections. However, the Congress also received traction and increased its number, winning 16. In 2013, it had won a mere eight...
19:32
Pakistani troops violated ceasefire along the Line of Control in Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir, injuring three civilians, police said today.Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked firing in Churanda in the Silikote area of Hajipeer sector of Uri, a police official said.Three civilians sustained...
18:54
Congress president Rahul Gandhi fired yet another salvo at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his silence on the multi-crore PNB bank fraud, asking where the country's watchman was when jeweller Nirav Modi fled the country like liquor baron Vijay Mallya.Gandhi took the swipe at the Prime Minister...
18:24
Actress Priya Prakash Varrier, who recently became an internet sensation for her wink in a song of a Malyalam movie, today moved the Supreme Court seeking quashing of an FIR lodged against her in Telangana.The 18-year-old actress of the upcoming movie also sought top court's direction to prohibit...
17:51
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh on February 21 in Amritsar. The CM, who will receive Trudeau in Amritsar on 21 February and accompany him to the Golden Temple, had sought a structured meeting with him from the ministry of external affairs....
17:38
Three plaintiffs in Babri Masjid/Ram Janmbhoomi case have said they will not accept any out-of-court settlement. At a gathering of local Muslims in Ayodhya which the plaintiffs - Haji Mahboob , Iqbal Ansari and Mohammad Umar -- were present, a resolution was passed that the Muslims will not shift...
17:23
The arguments on Monday were inconclusive in Central Bureau of Investigation judge B H Loya death case hearing, which would continue on March 5.Advocate of Bombay Lawyers Association, Dushyant Dave will continue the hearing.The apex court had earlier asked the Maharashtra...
17:11
The CBI has registered a case against Rotomac pen promoter Vikram Kothari and his family in connection with a case related to the alleged swindling of Rs 3,695 crore of bank loan funds, officials said today. The scam was earlier estimated at around Rs 800 crore. The case against Kanpur-based...
16:56
PNB scam: Central Vigilance Commission asks PNB and the Finance Ministry officials to submit a report on how the scam took place despite monetary regulations being in place. CVC gave a time of 10 days to the bank. Officials of PNB, RBI and Dept of Financial Services gave a presentation of 2 hours...
16:26
Justin Trudeau at IIM, Ahmedabad. Citizens are not fools. Citizens can tell whether someone is genuine in their approach or just trying to live up to some lofty familial expectation.On discrimination: Any comments about how a man looks isn't even an eyelash worth of the systemic...
16:14
A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court on Monday demanding a Special Investigation Team probe in the ongoing Punjab National Bank fraud.PNB detected the scam last week, wherein noted jewellery designer Nirav Modi acquired fraudulent letters of undertaking from one of its branches for...
16:09
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday fired yet another salvo at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asserting that he has robbed India. Taking to Twitter, Gandhi through a poem said that first it was Lalit Modi then Vijay Mallya and now Nirav Modi, who have eloped the country. He alleged that the...
16:09
What former employee Santosh Srivastava has to say about Mehul Choksi: Around 2012-13, I observed there were huge discrepancies in the books of accounts and physical things. I raised these with Mehul Choksi but I was told to shut up and do my job. In fact the language was tu apna kaam kar salary...
15:39
The Bagdogra airport in Darjeeling district will soon have sanitary napkin dispensing machines at its terminal, a senior Airports Authority of India official said today. The facility would be available at ladies toilets in the airport at the end of this month and the cost of each napkin will be...
15:26
Vadodara: The Enforcement Directorate team reaches the residence of former Allahabad Bank director Dinesh Dubey who had alleged that loan was given to Gitanjali Gems in 2013 despite his dissent note.
15:17
Madhya Pradesh Minister Maya Singh issued an indirect warning to the people in Ashoknagar in the state, saying that people voting for the Congress party will not get the benefit of any scheme by the Centre.The urban development while campaigning for the upcoming by-poll in the...
15:00
Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi Palaniswami calls for an all party meet on Feb 22 over the Cauvery verdict.
14:34
Rotomac Pens owner Vikram Kothari rebuffed the reports of not repaying bank loan worth Rs. 837 crore.Kothari on February 16 said that he has not done anything wrong and would not run away from the country.Yes, I took a loan from the bank, but it's wrong to say I am not paying it back. I live...
14:20
Resource persons affiliated to Vijnana Bharati, the science wing of the RSS, insisted that ancient Indian scriptures are the repository of all scientific knowledge and that western scientists plagiarised these accomplishments, which are being falsely feted today as western in origin. As an...
14:07
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Just watched a very insecure Oprah Winfrey, who at one point I knew very well, interview a panel of people on 60 Minutes. The questions were biased and slanted, the facts incorrect. Hope Oprah runs so she can be exposed and defeated just like all of the...
13:49
Bank stocks continued to face selling pressure today with many hitting their 52-week lows amid concerns over the alleged Rs 11,400 crore PNB fraud case involving billionaire diamantaire Nirav Modi. Shares of UCO Bank plunged 11.26 per cent, those of Union Bank of India - 10.94 per cent, Allahabad...
13:43
The Trudeaus at the Akshardham temple
13:42
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau visits the magnificent Akshardham Mandir in Gandhinagar. Seen here with his sons.
13:14
Sophie Gregoire Trudeau spins yarn at the Sabarmati Ashram.
13:12
Justin Trudeau Verified account @JustinTrudeau I was about Xav's age when I first visited the Taj Mahal almost 35 years ago... and it's amazing to be back with him & the family on Day 1 of our trip to India.Justin Trudeau's father, Canadian premier Pierre Trudeau, had visited...
12:57
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who arrived in India on Sunday for a week-long visit, was at the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad today. He will hold talks with Narendra Modi on wide-ranging issues, including defence, and counter-terror cooperation, on February 23. Yesterday, Trudeau,...
12:25
I had met Jean Drze several times before. Once, in the early 1990s, when he was teaching at the London School of Economics, and living in a working-class tenement. A second time, in the late 1990s, when he was teaching in the Delhi School of Economics, and living in a jhuggi-jhopri colony in...
12:22
The body of a heavily-armed Pakistani intruder was recovered along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Pooch district after the Army thwarted an infiltration attempt by a group of terrorists under the cover of Pakistani firing, an Army official said today. The body was recovered during a...
12:09
Shares of Gitanjali Gems continued to fall for the fourth straight session today, plunging 10 per cent as investor sentiment remained muted after the company came under the scanner of various investigating agencies following PNB's Rs 11,400-crore fraud detection. The stock tumbled 9.99 per cent...
12:04
The DMK has decided to convene an all-party meeting on the Cauvery issue in which actor Kamal Hassan, who will to launch his party this week, has agreed to attend, party working president MK Stalin has said. The DMK took the decision as the AIADMK government was not paying heed to its demand of...
11:41
The CBI has registered an FIR against Rotomac pen promoter Vikram Kothari on the basis of a complaint from Bank of Baroda for allegedly swindling over Rs 800 crore, officials said here today. The agency started searching his residence and offices in Kanpur from early in the morning, they said....
11:38
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Karnataka today to take part in the 88th Mahamastakabhisheka Mahotsav of Bhagwan Bahubali in Shravanabelagola.Prime Minister Modi will also inaugurate the newly carved 630 steps on the Vindhyagiri hill that takes the disciples to...
11:11
Advocate Vijay Aggarwal who represented a number of accused persons in the 2G spectrum case, to be the lawyer for Nirav Modi. File pic.
11:05
The CBI is questioning Vipul Ambani, the Chief Financial Officer of diamantaire Nirav Modi's Fire Star diamond company, officials said in Mumbai today. They said Vipul Ambani was holding the position for the last three to four years. He is understood to be a relative of the late Dhirubhai Ambani....
10:54
In the wake of Punjab National Bank fraud case, the Central Vigilance Commission on Monday issued an advisory to all the public sector banks ordering them to transfer the officers who have completed three years as on December 31, 2017.The CVC advisory also stated that the...
10:46
Two bombs were found in front of the main gate of a government school in Paraiya in Gaya district.
10:31
Kanpur: Visuals from outside Rotomac Pens' owner Vikram Kothari's residence as a CBI raid is underway.
10:25
The benchmark BSE Sensex slipped below the 34,000-mark by falling nearly 131 points in early trade today, extending Friday's losses as investors cut bets amid weak domestic sentiment and absence of Asian cues. The 30-share barometer dropped by 130.54 points, or 0.38 per cent, to 33,880.22 in...
10:13
Vikram Kothari, the promoter of Rotomac Pen, has denied reports that he has left the country.On Sunday media reports claimed that like billionaire jewellery designer Nirav Modi, Kothari too had gone abroad after swindling Rs 800 crore from various public sector banks.The Kanpur-based company's...
09:19
The budget session of the Goa assembly will be curtailed to three days owing to ill health of Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar who is undergoing treatment at a Mumbai hospital.Parrikar, who is being treated at the Lilavati Hospital for a pancreatic ailment since February 15, would not attend the...
09:04
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palanisamy on Sunday hit out at Union minister Pon Radhakrishnan for his remarks that Tamil Nadu was becoming a training camp for terrorism, saying the state was the most peaceful in the country. It is a blatant lie. In the present situation, Tamil Nadu...
08:27
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has confirmed party chief Imran Khan's marriage to his spiritual guide Bushra Maneka, thus ending weeks of speculation about the union.Khan, a cricketer turned politician, married Bushra Bibi (also known as Pinki Pir) in a simple ceremony held in Lahore yesterday, PTI...
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