Author: Anand Singh

NEW DELHI: Moving ahead in its probe in the Andhra Pradesh espionage case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday carried out searches at four locations in Gujarat and Maharashtra on the premises linked to suspects in the case. An NIA spokesperson here said that the anti-terror probe agency sleuths carried out searches at the premises […]

NEW DELHI: The Income Tax department on Wednesday carried out searches at the premises linked to Hero MotoCorp chairman and MD Pawan Munjal and several others in a suspected tax evasion case, department officials said. According to senior IT department officials, the searches started this morning at the residential premises of Munjal and other top […]

  NEW DELHI/JAMMU: In a major jolt to the Congress after its debacle in five states, senior party leader Karan Singh’s son Vikramaditya announced resignation from the grand old party on Tuesday. In his resignation letter to Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi, Vikramaditya said, “It is my belief that Congress is unable to realise and […]

  NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered 1,999 cases of money laundering and 18,003 cases under sections of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) between April 1, 2011, to March 31, 2020, the government informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. In a written reply to an unstarred question by Congress MP Manish Tewari […]

NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) General Secretary and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee on Monday joined the Enforcement Directorate (ED) probe at its headquarters here in New Delhi, in connection with an illegal coal scam case. Abhishek Banerjee, who is also Lok Sabha MP from Diamond Harbor, arrived at the agency […]

  NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has registered a case against M3M India Private Limited for allegedly cheating a Delhi-based company named MGF Developments Limited of Rs 450 crore. As per the FIR, a copy of which is with The New Indian, the complainant — a senior official from MGF Developments […]

  PATNA: Senior leader Sharad Yadav has announced to merge his Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD), which he floated after leaving JD(U) almost five years back, with Lalu Prasad Yadav-led Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the main Opposition party in Bihar. In a tweet, Sharad Yadav said the merge is part of his efforts to unite various […]

  NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: A day after cricketer turned politician Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned as Punjab Congress chief on the directions of party interim chief Sonia Gandhi, he humiliated his party, yet once again, by endorsing Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which decimated his own party in the state in the recently concluded assembly polls. Sidhu congratulated […]

  NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) will question West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira in the coal scam case next week, sources in the agency said. “We shall be questioning Abhishek Banerjee on March 21 and his wife Rujira Banerjee on March 22,” ED sources told The […]

  NEW DELHI: Many leaders of Congress’ dissident G-23 group demanded a “collective and inclusive leadership” in the party following a meeting at the residence of former Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad here on Wednesday evening. The leaders demanded the Congress party to initiate a dialog with “like-minded forces” to create a platform to […]