NEW DELHI: In line with the Government of India initiative “Dekho Apna Desh” to promote domestic tourism, Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has launched a special tourist train called Shri Ramayana Yatra Tours. The train, that was flagged off from Delhi’s Safdarjung Railway Station on Sunday evening, is slated to cover all prominent […]
CHANDIGARH: A day after Punjab’s advocate-general APS Deol attacked Navjot Singh Sidhu in the ‘drugs matter’ and the ‘sacrilege cases’, the cricketer turned politician on Sunday hit back at him, alleging that the lawyer had appeared before the High Court for main conspirators and accused in the case. The Punjab Congress chief, Sidhu also accused […]
MUMBAI: A Special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court on Saturday sent former Maharashtra Home Minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Anil Deshmukh to 14-day judicial custody. Deshmukh was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on November 2 after 12 hours of questioning in connection with the money laundering probe for alleged […]
NEW DELHI: Moving ahead in its probe against the pro-Khalistan group, a two-member team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrived in Canada to liaise with the authorities and to entail modes to execute Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) requests and faster sharing of information with India’s anti-terror probe agency. A senior NIA official […]
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: A day after the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) transferred six cases including Aryan Khan’s drugs case from Mumbai to Delhi’s Special Investigation Team (SIT), a team of the drug law enforcement agency on Saturday arrived in Mumbai led by Sanjay Singh, Deputy Director General (DDG) operations. Singh, a 1996 batch IPS officer of […]
MUMBAI: Facing a barrage of allegations of extortion and bribery, Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai Zonal Unit Director Sameer Wankhede was on Friday removed from six cases including one on Goa-bound luxury cruise drugs case involving Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan. However, speaking to The New Indian, Wankhede insisted that it […]
NEW DELHI: Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Friday said that the capital’s air quality had deteriorated due to some people deliberately bursting firecrackers and rise in stubble burning. The national capital woke to a hazy morning. According to the Ministry of Earth Sciences, the city’s air quality remained in severe category. It said that the Air […]
MUMBAI: Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan on Friday deposed before the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) as part of his bail condition. Aryan Khan, along with two others – Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha – were granted bail by the Bombay High Court last week. Aryan Khan arrived at the NCB office […]
CHANDIGARH/NEW DELHI: Even as the political heat in Punjab is soaring after former chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh resigned from Congress and announced his plans to launch the Punjab Lok Congress, several grand old party on Tuesday flew to holy shrine of Kedarnath, two days ahead of Diwali. Amarinder had announced his resignation from the […]
CHENNAI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a chargesheet against 18 people including then manager in connection with an alleged fraud in “pre-closure” of Chennai Port Trust’s fixed deposits causing loss of Rs 45 crore to the Indian Bank. The agency has named A. Sermathi Raja, then Branch Manager of Indian Bank’s Koyambedu Branch […]