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Amritsar: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey from Jharkhand has claimed that Britain assisted India in executing the 1984 Operation Bluestar at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, stoking a new controversy.In a post on X on Monday, Dubey alleged that then PM Indira Gandhi "launched an attack on the Golden Temple in collaboration with Britain", with British Army officers present in Amritsar.He uploaded a classified British document, "Sikh Community", claiming that on Feb 23, 1984, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth ...Read More >
Mumbai: Bombay High Court on Monday directed the BMC to reconsider its decision to close slaughterhouses for only a day during the Jain festival of Paryushan Parv. Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Sandeep Marne permitted two Jain trusts to make "detailed" representations to BMC and directed BMC to reconsider its Aug 30, 2024 decision before commencement of the festival on August 20.Two petitions were filed last year by Sheth Motishaw Lalbaug Jain Charities and Sheth Bherulalji Kanaiyalalji ...Read More >
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], July 6 (ANI): Taking strong action against the misuse of government welfare schemes, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has directed officials to identify and act against individuals who have fraudulently availed benefits using fake documents. Acting on his instructions, two separate FIRs have been registered at Kotwali Nagar and Thana Rajpur police stations in Dehradun. The action follows complaints submitted to the Senior Superintendent of Police (S ...Read More >
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], July 5 (ANI): In a move to curb the misuse of public welfare schemes, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Saturday directed authorities to take stringent action against those fraudulently availing benefits. According to the instructions of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, two separate cases have been registered at Kotwali Nagar and Thana Rajpur in Dehradun. The crackdown began after the District Supply Officer and the Ayushman Department submitted complaint ...Read More >
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], July 5 (ANI): In a move to curb the misuse of public welfare schemes, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Saturday directed authorities to take stringent action against those fraudulently availing benefits. According to the instructions of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, two separate cases have been registered at Kotwali Nagar and Thana Rajpur in Dehradun. The crackdown began after the District Supply Officer and the Ayushman Department submitted complaint ...Read More >
New Delhi: President Donald Trump signed into law a sweeping tax and spending bill on Friday during a high-profile Independence Day event at the White House, marking a major legislative victory for his administration and a defining moment of his second term. The ceremony, held on the South Lawn and infused with the pageantry of military flyovers and cheering supporters, featured a fiery speech by Trump in which he touted the legislation as a historic achievement. The event took on the tone of a ...Read More >
Lucknow: Three day Mango Festival 2025 kicked off at Awadh Shilp Gram in Lucknow, featuring more than 800 mango varieties from across India. The event celebrates mango diversity, horticultural innovation, and the growing role of Uttar Pradesh in India's fruit export ecosystem. Organized with participation from farmers, exporters, scientists, and food processing units, the festival offers a platform to promote mango-based trade and technology. Mangoes like Dussehri from Lucknow, Langda from Vara ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Thursday asserted that it would not allow any illegality in any building, while coming down heavily on the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for turning a blind eye to what it said were glaring violations in Willingdon View, a high-rise in Tardeo. "This is going to be an example for all buildings and high-rises," said a division bench of justices GS Kulkarni and Arif Doctor, days after observing that the upper 18 floors of the 34-storey building were occu ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 4 (ANI): SpiceJet on Thursday acknowledged that some passengers are currently facing difficulties in reaching the airline's customer care helpline due to intermittent technical issues. The airline said efforts are underway to restore normal functioning as soon as possible. In an official message on X, SpiceJet stated, 'We are currently experiencing intermittent issues with our SpiceJet Customer Care helpline numbers. We assure you that our relevant teams are working to r ...Read More >
Pune: State industries minister Uday Samant said on Thursday there was "no immediate proposal" to form a separate municipal corporation for newly merged areas as the state govt was providing funds for their development.Samant said PMC was providing adequate funds for development of these areas. The process of drafting a development plan for 23 merged areas was underway. Funds of around Rs 250 crore have been given for water supply projects, while Rs130 crore has been allocated for drainage works ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday announced the provisional attachment of assets worth approximately ₹131.45 crore in Spain, including a luxury yacht and immovable properties, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). These assets belong to Pavel Prozorov, a Spanish national and the alleged mastermind behind the unauthorised forex trading platform OctaFX. The attached assets comprise a commercial Italian-model luxury yacht cruising in the Western Mediterranean, ...Read More >
Margao: Chief minister Pramod Sawant on Thursday mounted a strong defence of his govt's performance on the tribal welfare front, taking veiled swipes at Govind Gaude, whom Sawant had recently sacked as the art and culture minister.Gaude's ouster followed his corruption charges against the CM-led tribal welfare department and accusations of inefficiency.Speaking at the launch of the Dharti Aabha Janbhagidari Abhiyan at Sanguem, Sawant listed various schemes and initiatives launched for tribals du ...Read More >
Mumbai: Bank lending in India continues to remain rather circumspect despite a reduction of a full percentage point in policy rates this year. Lending rose 9.6% year-on-year until mid-June, compared with 19.1% a year ago. Loans to large corporates, home loans and loans to NBFCs continue to remain soft. Credit to large corporations has risen 1% in May compared to 7.1 % a year ago. Even home loans rose 9% compared to 38.7% a year ago, showed the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) latest data on sector ...Read More >
Nagpur: Congress Legislature Party leader Vijay Wadettiwar questioned the govt's priorities on Tuesday, highlighting the increasing number of farmer suicides in Maharashtra. He accused the govt of neglecting agrarian crisis while approving Rs20,000 crore for Shaktipeeth highway project."Money is available for massive infrastructure projects, but where is the budget for farm loan waivers as promised by the BJP before last year's assembly polls to the farmers?" Wadettiwar asked while moving an adj ...Read More >
Srinagar, Jul 02: The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has opposed the approval of the Employment Linked Incentive (ELI) Scheme by the Union Cabinet. The party, in a statement issued here, condemned the scheme as a "move to divert public funds to large corporate entities". It accused the BJP-led central government of cronyism and favouring corporate interests at the expense of workers. "The CPI(M) describes the ELI scheme as a deceptive initiative that claims to promote j ...Read More >
Mumbai: Bank lending in India continues to remain rather circumspect despite a reduction of a full percentage point in policy rates this year. Lending rose 9.6% year-on-year until mid-June, compared with 19.1% a year ago. Loans to large corporates, home loans and loans to NBFCs continue to remain soft. Credit to large corporations has risen 1% in May compared to 7.1 % a year ago. Even home loans rose 9% compared to 38.7% a year ago, showed the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) latest data on sector ...Read More >
Mumbai, July 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The soundness and resilience of India's scheduled commercial banks are bolstered by robust capital buffers, multi-decadal low non-performing loans and strong earnings, according to the RBI's latest Financial Stability report. The country's scheduled commercial banks continued to record improvement in their asset quality, with the GNPA ratio and NNPA ratio declining to multi-decadal lows of 2.3 per cent and 0.5 per cent, respectively, the report states. While ove ...Read More >
Kolkata: Luxmi Group, owner of the iconic Makaibari Tea Estate, has acquired a majority stake in UK-based Brew Tea Co. Brew Tea deals exclusively with orthodox tea and has both an online and offline presence in the UK.Luxmi Group acquired an 80% stake in the company, while the remaining 20% remains with the existing promoters. After Tetley and Typhoo, this acquisition marks another British tea company being acquired by an Indian corporate, though it may not be of the same magnitude.Brew Tea Co w ...Read More >
New Delhi: After a dramatic all-night session and a nail-biting 50-50 Senate split, President Donald Trump's signature "One Big Beautiful Bill Act", a sweeping package of tax breaks and spending cuts, has cleared the Senate thanks to Vice President JD Vance's tie-breaking vote. The bill, which now heads back to the House, represents the biggest overhaul of tax and social spending policy in years. Here's a detailed look at what will change if the legislation becomes law. The bill makes Trump's ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 1 (PTI) The National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) has installed fast electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at Guldhar and Duhai Namo Bharat stations to promote clean and sustainable transportation. With the addition of these two stations, three EV charging stations are now operational along the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Namo Bharat corridor, including the existing facility at Sahibabad station, according to a statement. It stated that the newly installed charging ...Read More >
BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha Administrative Service (OAS) Association announced to go on mass leave from Tuesday to protest the attack on BMC additional commissioner Ratnakar Sahoo by alleged BJP-supported hooligans on the corporation premises on Monday. The state civil services body in its letter to all the OAS officers termed the brutal assault on Sahoo in broad daylight an attempt to humiliate government servants and instill fear among them. "The incident is not an isolated one. A narrative has ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram: Ravada A Chandrasekhar took charge as the new State Police Chief on Tuesday. He succeeds Shaik Darvesh Saheb, who retired on June 30. His tenure will run until July 1, 2027. A 1991-batch IPS officer currently serving as Special Director with the Intelligence Bureau, Chandrasekhar is on central deputation. He was selected over Nitin Agarwal, who topped the official list of probables. The appointment order, issued by Kerala Chief Secretary Dr A Jayathilak on behalf of the Gove ...Read More >
MUMBAI: India's banking sector has shown spectacular improvement in asset quality as gross non-performing assets (NPAs or bad loans) touched a decadal low of 2.3% in March 2025, the Reserve Bank of India said in its Financial Stability Report, released on Monday. However, the report forecasts a marginal 20 basis-point rise in gross NPAs by March 2027 to 2.5% in a normal scenario and 5.6% in an extreme adverse scenario. "The soundness and resilience of commercial banks are bolstered by robust ca ...Read More >
Pune: Two men on a bike robbed two women travelling in a private van of their ornaments worth Rs1.5 lakh and one of them sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl, who was also in the vehicle that had halted in front of a tea stall on the outskirts of Swami Chincholi village near Bhigwan on Pune-Solapur highway around 4.15am on Monday.Superintendent of police (Pune Rural) Sandeep Singh Gill said, "A case of robbery, rape, abduction and criminal intimidation has been registered with the Daund police. ...Read More >
Gujarat's CM Bhupendra Patel's new policy alleviates housing transfer costs for lower and middle-income families by waiving up to 80% of stamp duty for specific cases. This decision comes under the Gujarat Stamp Act, 1958, significantly reducing financial burdens during property transfers involving societies, associations, and non-trading corporations. In a landmark decision, Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has announced a significant relaxation of stamp duty charges for housing transfer ...Read More >
Gandhinagar: In a major relief for thousands of property owners in Gujarat, the state govt on Monday announced a waiver of up to 80% on stamp duty for property transfers done through allotment letters and share certificates (without sale deed): a long-standing issue affecting older housing societies.The decision, issued by the revenue department under Section 9A of the Gujarat Stamp Act, comes in response to representations made by citizens and elected representatives.The move specifically benef ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar, June 30 (UNI) The Commissionerate Police today arrested three individuals, including a BJP corporator, for assaulting Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Additional Commissioner Ratnakar Sahu inside the corporation office. The incident sparked widespread resentment among BMC employees, who, along with several BJD corporators and leaders, staged a road blockade on the busy Bani Vihar-Master Canteen stretch in the evening. The protest brought vehicular movement to a standstill f ...Read More >
Ahmedabad, Jun 30 (PTI) The Gujarat government has decided to waive 80 per cent of the payable stamp duty for property transfers that are done by allotment letters or share certificates by housing societies, associations and non-trading corporations, a move it said will help middle-income families. Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Monday took the decision to grant the relief which has been given under Section 9(a) of the Gujarat Stamp Act, 1958. The decision has been taken "to provide substan ...Read More >
Chennai, Jun 30 (PTI) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin flagged off here on Monday the state-run Metropolitan Transport Corporation's 120 low-roof electric buses, worth about Rs 207.90 crore. Intended to reduce pollution, the initiative under the aegis of the state transport department is a first in Tamil Nadu (as regards the various state-run transport corporations) and the chief minister interacted --along with Transport Minister SS Sivasankar--with drivers and conductors. The 120 electri ...Read More >
Hyderabad: International Asteroid Day (IAD) is observed on June 30 every year to raise public awareness of asteroids and the importance of defending Earth against potential threats from the asteroid belts. This day has been sanctioned by the United Nations. Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the sun. Even though these rocky remnants are the leftovers from the formation of our solar system that occurred about 4.6 billion years ago, they still orbit around the sun like planets. There a ...Read More >
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