NEW DELHI: The government’s crackdown on those stashing undeclared income in overseas bank accounts has started yielding results with the Income Tax authorities having unearthed more than Rs 13,000 crore from just two sets of information received in 2011 and 2013.
NEW DELHI: The government on Sunday made it clear to China, responsible for torpedoing its recent NSG bid , that it was necessary to take care of India’s “interests” for forward movement in bilateral ties between the two countries. Ministry of external affairs spokesman Vikas Swarup said, “We will keep impressing upon China that mutual…
NEW DELHI: Strongly reacting to the recent killing of CRPF jawans by terrorists in Pampore, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that Pakistan’s attitude towards battling terrorism is not right. Singh, who sent a committee to Pampore to look into any lapses in the handling of the terror attack that left eight CRPF personnel…
WASHINGTON: Attacking his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton over donations to her family foundation, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has alleged that she received funds from Indian political leaders and institutions to vote for the Indo-US civil nuclear deal. Released by the Trump campaign in form of a 35-page booklet, none of these allegations are…
NEW DELHI: Hearing a PIL seeking an inquiry into the Essar Group allegedly tapping several telephones of VVIPs, including Cabinet ministers, corporate chiefs and bureaucrats, between 2001 and 2006, the Delhi High Court on Friday directed Supreme Court lawyer Suren Uppal to submit in a “sealed cover” the allegedly tapped conversations to the Ministry of…
New Delhi: Defence Ministry on Saturday approved the much delayed purchase of 145 Ultra Light Howitzers, worth about Rs 5,000 crore, from the US and also the bulk production of 18 Dhanush artillery guns, the first acquisition of such weapon systems by the Army in three decades since the Bofors scandal. Defence Acquisition Council (DAC),…
New Delhi: Launching a fresh tidal wave of attack on Arvind Kejriwal, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Saturday alleged that the Delhi Chief Minister did not get into the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur through competitive exams and did not hold a rank from the university. “According to the RTI reply…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday night expressed pain over the death of eight CRPF personnel in a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir and saluted their courage. “I salute the courage of the CRPF personnel martyred today in J&K. They served the nation with utmost dedication. Pained by their demise,” he tweeted.…
Srinagar: Eight CRPF personnel were killed in a shootout in Pulwama district of south Kashmir when militants on Saturday afternoon attacked a patrol on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway. A police official said two militants were also killed in the exchange of gunfire. Preliminary reports suggest heavily armed militants laid an ambush near Pampore’s Frestbal area,…