India

New Delhi, Dec 27: The ED on Monday detected cash deposits totalling over Rs104 crore in an account belonging to the BSP and Rs 1.43 crore in an account belonging to party Supremo Mayawati's brother Anand Kumar in a branch of United Bank of India here, sources in the Enforcement Directorate said. Officials said the agency, Enforcement Directorate, as part of its routine survey and enquiry

New Delhi, Dec 27: The Income Tax department has issued a notice to Aam Aadmi Party, citing discrepancies in the donors' list submitted to tax officials and what had been put up on the party website. Terming the notice as "malicious", AAP alleged that the BJP-led NDA government is harassing the party and targeting its donors. AAP national treasurer Raghav Chadha said, "Initially, there was an

New Delhi, Dec 27: External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said on Monday that the government will spare no effort to secure the release of Indian Catholic priest Father Tom Uzhunnalil from his captors. "I have seen the video from Father Tom. He is an Indian citizen and the life of every Indian is most precious for us... We will spare no effort to secure Father Tom's release from captivity,"

New Delhi, Dec 26: A Delhi court today dismissed BJP leader Subramanian Swamy's plea seeking certain documents from the Congress party and Associated Journals Ltd (AJL) in the National Herald case filed by him against Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and others. Metropolitan Magistrate Lovleen rejected Swamy's application while giving him the last opportunity to submit the list of complainant witnesses

New Delhi, Dec 26: Ex-IAF chief S P Tyagi, arrested on December 9 in AgustaWestland chopper scam case, was today granted bail by a special court here. Special CBI Judge Arvind Kumar granted the relief to Tyagi on a personal bond of Rs two lakh and one surety of like amount. The court, however, imposed certain conditions on the accused and asked him not to try to influence the witnesses and hamper

New Delhi, Dec 26: The Patiala House Court bench on Monday granted bail to former Indian Air Force chief SP Tyagi arrested in AgustaWestland chopper deal case. The court has further asked 72-year-old Tyagi not to leave the country and deposit Rs 2 lakh security bond . A court also said it would pass order, on January 4, on the bail plea of Tyagi's cousin Sanjeev Tyagi and Delhi-based advocate

Agra, Dec 26: Call it ignorance or sheer slip of the tongue, but BJP's controversial Aligarh mayor Shakuntala Bharti landed herself in an embarrassing situation on Saturday when she referred to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee as "deceased" while delivering a speech on the eve of celebrations of the veteran politician's birthday. Addressing students at Dharam Jyoti Mahavidyalya School at

New Delhi, Dec 26: Dismissing the criticism of frequent changes in rules after demonetisation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday alleged that those who cannot endorse corruption and black money openly are relentlessly finding fault with his government. He vowed to take forward the fight against unaccounted money and corruption by implementing a strong law against benami properties. “I assure

New Delhi, Dec 25: Trying to calm the jangled nerves, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today went to great lengths clarifying that there is no intention of the government to impose tax on long-term capital gains from share transactions. Referring to the speech made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Mumbai yesterday, he said the interpretation being given to the speech is not correct. "The speech has

New Delhi, Dec 25: The Reserve Bank of India has refused to allow access to minutes of meetings held to decide on the issue of demonetisation of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 notes announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8. Responding to an RTI application filed by activist Venkatesh Nayak, the Bankers' Bank refused to disclose the minutes of the crucial meetings of Central Board of Directors