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GST collections have crossed the Rs 1 lakh crore mark for the third month in a row in January with improved compliance and plugging of evasion, sources said on Friday.According to provisional numbers, total GST revenue was Rs 1.1 lakh crore in January, they said.The GST collection is in line with...
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Kalakshetra Foundation, anautonomus body under the Culture Ministry has withdrawn its permission to noted Carnatic music vocalist T M Krishna's book release function slated to be held on February 2 on its premises in Chennai.While the revocation of the nod has led to a volley of protests in the...
21:35
The Economic Survey 2019-20 has sourced certain data from Wikipedia, which is not considered as reliable source of information.Besides Wikipedia, the Survey has also relied on data from other private sources such as Bloomberg, ICRA, CMIE, Indian Institute of Management (Bengaluru), Forbes and the...
20:37
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Special Secretary (Health), Sanjeeva Kumar on Friday said that 366 people are to be brought from China to India tomorrow.366 people are to be brought from China to India tomorrow. They will be kept in isolation for 14 days at the ITBP center in Chhawla....
19:30
It saddens me that convicts in Nirbhaya case are escaping death sentence by using legal loopholes, says Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.He said that there's a dire need to amend laws, so that hanging takes place within six months in rape cases.A Delhi court on Friday stayed the death warrant...
19:03
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asserted that his government has no reason to feel defensive about the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and asked National Democratic Alliance leaders to back the measure strongly in Parliament.A Bharatiya Janata Party ally told PTI after the meeting that...
18:25
The Janta Dal-United on Friday urged the government during an National Democratic Alliance meeting on Friday to remove questions seeking details of parents in the National Population Register (NPR) questionnaire.JD-U leader Lalan Singh said he raised the issue at the NDA meeting and Union Home...
18:20
Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi on Friday said she will continue her fight till the convicts in the 2012 gang rape and murder case are hanged, shortly after a Delhi court postponed the execution of death warrants till further order.Devi told reporters her 'hopes are dashed' but she will continue her...
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JUST IN: A Delhi court stays execution of 2012 Delhi gang rape case convicts till further orders.They will scheduled to be hanged on Saturday.Asha Devi, mother of the victim, says, The lawyer of the convicts, A P Singh has challenged me saying that the convicts will never be executed. I will...
17:11
The Supreme Court has dismissed the plea of Pawan Gupta, one of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape case, claiming that he was a juvenile in th case. The court dismissed Gupta's petition claiming that he was a juvenile when the offence took place. The review plea filed earlier in the...
16:53
Border-guarding force ITBP has prepared a 600-bedded facility in Delhi to quarantine and provide basic medical care to those suspected to have been affected by the new coronavirus, a senior official said on Friday. The facility is operational in an Indo-Tibetan Border Police camp in south-west...
16:20
Dummy execution of the convicts of 2012 Delhi gang-rape case was conducted in the jail on Friday, Tihar Jail officials said.Earlier in the day, Tihar jail authorities had told a Delhi court that the convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case can be hanged separately.Additional Sessions...
16:14
Delhi Police ask for as many as 45 documents before giving its clearance for opening an eatery in the national capital as gainst only 19 to buy a gun, the Economic Survey said on Friday while making a case for doing away with unnecessary controls. According to the National Restaurants...
15:51
The Indian Army has set up a quarantine facility in Manesar near Delhi to keep around 300 Indian students being evacuated from China's Hubei province in view of the outbreak of coronavirus.Officials said the Indian Army has created the facility near Manesar where the students can be monitored for...
15:18
The Jamia Millia Islamia student who was injured in firing in the Jamia area yesterday, was discharged from Jai Parkash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre at AIIMS on Friday.According to a senior doctor, Shadab Farooq's condition was stable at the time of discharge.Farooq was injured after a man opened...
15:12
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said elections in Delhi are an internal matter of India and no interference by Pakistan, the biggest sponsor of terrorism, would be tolerated. Responding to a tweet by Pakistan's Minister of Science and Technology, Fawad Hussain, the chief...
15:02
Air India's 423-seater jumbo B747 plane took off from the Delhi airport at around 1.20 pm on Friday to evacuate Indian nationals from Wuhan as China deals with the novel coronavirus outbreak, officials said. There are five doctors from Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) hospital and one paramedical...
14:47
A Delhi court on Friday reserved its order on an application of three death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case seeking a stay on their execution on February 1. Court to pass order later today.Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana reserved the order after completion of...
14:46
Manager of the school in Jewar, where the accused of Jamia firing is a student, on Friday said that the latter is a juvenile and his Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) mark sheet is absolutely genuine.The mark-sheet is absolutely genuine, he passed the CBSE exam in 2018. His date of...
14:40
In a hard-hitting attack on the government over the new citizenship law, opposition parties on Friday held it responsible for the widespread unrest in the country following the legislation's enactment and said the society was dangerously inching toward a civil war-like situation. The...
14:30
Leaders of 14 opposition parties, including the Congress on Friday wore black arm bands during the President's address to both houses of Parliament to protest against the amended citizenship act, NPR and NRC. Leaders of these parties also sat together in one block in the Central hall of the...
13:38
The Economic Survey on Friday projected India's economic growth at 6 per cent to 6.5 per cent in the next financial year starting April 1, saying growth has bottomed out. The growth in 2020-21 compares to a projected 5 per cent expansion in 2019-20. Weak global growth impacting India as well...
13:11
The Congress on Friday said the President's address was a tiresome repetition of old slogans and old cliches that have lost all meaning and does not have a word on the macroeconomic situation, lost jobs and increasing unemployment. He said the address is silent on the swindling investment in...
12:57
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to hear the petition filed by a journalist, seeking a direction to West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar to remove the state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for demanding the United Nation-monitored referendum on the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)...
12:41
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine the Centre's plea for laying down victim and society-centric guidelines in cases of death penalty. The Centre had on January 22 moved an application contending that the prevalent guidelines are only accused and convict-centric. A bench headed...
12:36
Mutual funds investors will not be able to make fresh investment or sell their units on the Budget day because subscription and redemption are closed on Saturdays and Sundays, industry officials said. Mutual funds subscriptions and redemptions will not be permitted because all the fund houses...
12:03
President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday hailed the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act as historic in his address to joint sitting of both houses of Parliament, prompting protests by some opposition members. He also said that debate and discussion on any issue strengthens democracy while violence...
11:57
Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy Subramanian on Friday commended his team for working hard and having prepared the second economic survey in the span of six months.Last time, we worked hard. Our team has done a lot of hard work this time around also. The team has prepared the second economic...
11:54
One of the four death row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, Pawan Gupta, on Friday approached the Supreme Court seeking review of its verdict which dismissed his plea claiming to be a juvenile at the time of commission of the offence. On January 20, the apex court had...
11:38
President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday said any form of violence in the name of protest makes our society and country weaker. He was addressing the joint session of Parliament to mark the beginning of the Budget session.My government clearly believes that mutual discussion and debate make democracy...
11:10
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday questioned who paid the Jamia shooter, a day after a man opened fire at a group of anti-CAA protesters in the area. Asked by reporters to comment on the incident as he was entering Parliament, Gandhi said, Who paid the Jamia shooter? On Thursday,...
11:01
In 2014, Debayan Sen found a mysterious album inside of a trunk in his mother's attic, in Kolkata, India. The red-orange record sleeve featured a picture of his mom as a young woman along with her name'Rupa'in big, bold lettering. That was the day Debayan learned about his mother's past life as a...
10:58
The accused juvenile who fired at protesters in Jamia area on Friday has no remorse for what he did and was radicalised by viewing videos on social media, claims Delhi Police.Police sources also said that the accused had procured the country-made pistol from his village and left for Delhi in a...
10:44
PM Modi's statement outside Parliament as the Budget Session is set to begin at 11 am. We all should make sure that in this session, we lay a strong foundation for this decade. This session will be focussed mainly on economic issues. I want that in both houses there are good debates on these...
10:41
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi led a protest of party leaders in Parliament against the CAA, NPR and NRC ahead of the Budget Session. Party leaders held placards of 'Save India', 'No to CAA, NRC' and shouted slogans. Senior Congress leaders Motilal Vohra, Ahmed Patel, Adhir Ranjan Choudhury, AK...
10:19
Market benchmark Sensex jumped over 200 points in opening session on Friday ahead of the release of the government's Economic Survey later in the day. The 30-share BSE index was trading 168.91 points or 0.41 per cent higher at 41,082.73, and the broader NSE advanced 39.35 points, or 0.33 per...
10:02
Two recently published studies have predicted that cervical cancer could cease to be a public health risk within the span of this century, provided that women receive meticulous HPV vaccination, screening, and treatment.The researchers are even more optimistic about North America, stating that...
09:57
The wife of a man who was killed for holding children as hostages here at Farrukhabad, died after being brutally thrashed by villagers on Friday, police said.After being beaten up by the locals, the woman was rushed to a hospital in a critical condition. However, she succumbed to her...
09:46
Air India's 423-seater jumbo B747 plane will depart from Delhi airport at 12.30 pm on Friday to evacuate 600 Indian nationals who are in China as the neighbouring country deals with novel Coronavirus outbreak. The B747 plane is all set to depart from Delhi at 12.30 pm. It came from Mumbai on...
09:32
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09:31
A group of 3-4 terrorists, travelling in a truck, opened fire at a police team at a toll plaza on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Jammu on Friday, injuring a policeman, officials said. Three terrorists were killed in the ensuing gunfight, Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police...
09:30
Indian-origin technology executive Arvind Krishna has been elected chief executive officer of American IT giant IBM after a world-class succession process, succeeding Virginia Rometty, who described him as the right CEO for the next era at IBM and well-positioned to lead the company into the...
09:27
Students who were agitating outside the Delhi Police Headquarters at ITO after a man fired at anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protestors near the Jamia Millia Islamia were detained and removed from the area on Friday morning, police said. The students were protesting since...
09:15
As the budget session of Parliament commences on Friday, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will table the economic survey 2019-20.Sitharaman will present her second Union budget on Saturday.The budget session will commence with an address by President Ram Nath Kovind to the joint sitting...
09:09
Twenty-three children aged between six months and 15 years, who had been taken hostage by a murder accused after inviting them to his daughter's birthday party, were rescued late on Thursday night after police killed their captor in a village here. The hostage drama began at Kasaria village...
08:48
IT services major Wipro on Friday said its chief executive officer and managing director Abidali Z Neemuchwala has decided to step down from the company. Neemuchwala, 52, will continue to hold the office of the CEO and managing director, until a successor is appointed for a smooth...
08:35
The death toll in China from the new coronavirus reached 213 on Friday, with overall cases worldwide rising rapidly in an outbreak that the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency. Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak, reported 5,806 confirmed cases, including...
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United States President Donald Trump on Thursday created a coronavirus task force to lead his administration's response to the deadly virus which has killed 170 people and infected 7,736 others in China, and spread to 20 countries, including India.The task force is led by Secretary of Health and...
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