KOLKATA: Arrested All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) leader and Bengal government Minister Partha Chatterjee along with his close aide Arpita Mukherjee, who was also arrested on Saturday evening, had floated several shell companies under the names of different persons and laundered money. The revelations were made in court on Friday by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) […]
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday hit out at Union Minister Smriti Irani over reports that a Goa restaurant allegedly run by her daughter Zoish was served a notice for acquiring a liquor licence in the name of a dead person. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh, spokesperson Pawan Khera and several other leaders addressed a press […]
KOLKATA: West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee was on Saturday sent to two-day custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) by a local court in the teacher recruitment scam that allegedly took place during his previous stint as education minister. He was arrested earlier in the day after questioning for more than 26 hours. The agency […]
NEW DELHI: Moving ahead toward green mobility, Olectra Greentech Limited (OLECTRA) has bagged another order from Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) to supply 300 electric buses worth Rs 500 crore. In a statement, OLECTRA said, “The MEIL group company, Evey Trans Private Limited (EVEY), has received the Letter of Award (LoA) from TSRTC. The […]
LUCKNOW: The cracks in the Opposition unity in UP came wide open on Saturday, with Samajwadi Party telling its coalition partners OP Rajbhar and Shivpal Yadav that they are free to join the side that gives them “more respect”. In separate letters to Rajbhar and Shivpal, the Akhilesh Yadav-led party said, “If you feel that you will get […]
NEW DELHI: Days after the Bihar Police arrested five member of the Popular Front of India (PFI), who were allegedly part of a module that sought to target those “who make adverse and objectionable” comments against Islam, the NIA on Saturday said it will probe possible terror angle to the case. The National Investigation Agency […]
KOLKATA: West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and later sent to its custody for two days by a court on Saturday, a day after it recovered Rs 20 crore from the premises of his close aide and actor Arpita Mukherjee. Chatterjee, who is minister of commerce and industry, […]
NEW DELHI: More than 2000 trains were affected across the country as protestors of the Agnipath Scheme damaged properties worth more than Rs 259 crores, Union railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed the Parliament on Friday. In a written reply to Rajya Sabha, Vaishnaw said 2,132 trains were cancelled between June 15 and June 23. Train […]
NEW DELHI: Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi will appear before Enforcement Directorate (ED) on July 26 in connection with an alleged money laundering case involving National Herald, officials said on Friday. Gandhi, 75, was questioned for over two and a half hours on Thursday by the financial probe agency in connection with the same case. […]
NEW DELHI: Moving ahead in its probe into the murder of Udaipur tailor Kanhaiya Lal Teli, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday said that it arrested Mohammad Javed. An NIA spokesperson said that the agency arrested Javed, 19, on Thursday. The official said that Javed had played an important role in the conspiracy of […]