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Kancheepuram (TN), Feb 15: Police today booked AIADMK General Secretary V K Sasikala and its Legislature Party Leader Edappadi K Palaniswamy in connection with the alleged detention of party MLAs at a resort in this district. The two were booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) pertaining to abduction and wrongful confinement. The case was filed at Koovathur police station on

New Delhi, Feb 15: In step with government's digital India drive, the Income Tax department is developing an app that will soon allow assessees to pay taxes or apply for PAN using smartphones. The department is also working on a project to issue PAN to assessees within minutes by way of e-KYC authentication using Aadhaar, a move that will help bring more people under the tax net by making it

Chennai, Feb 15: AIADMK General Secretary V K Sasikala today reinducted her close relatives T T V Dinkaran and S Venkatesh into the party, five years after their expulsion by J Jayalalithaa. In a significant move a day after her conviction in a graft case, Sasikala announced that Dinakaran, her nephew and a former Rajya Sabha member, was being appointed as the party's Deputy General Secretary and

New Delhi, Feb 15: India on Wednesday created history by launching a record 104 satellites from a single rocket as ISRO looks to zoom ahead in the commercial space race. The PSLV-C37 carrying CARTOSAT-2 series earth observation satellite and 103 nano satellites lifted off from the Satish Dhawan spaceport in Sriharikota. Apart from the 714 kilogram main satellite for earth observation, the

Lucknow/ Dehra dun, Feb 15: Polling began this morning in 67 Assembly constituencies spread over 11 districts of western Uttar Pradesh figuring in the second phase of voting. The districts where polling is on amid tight security arrangements are Saharanpur, Bijnor, Moradabad, Sambhal, Rampur, Bareilly, Amroha, Pilibhit, Kheri, Shahjahanpur and Badaun. Official sources said here that elaborate

Lucknow, Feb 15: Polling began this morning in 67 Assembly constituencies spread over 11 districts of western Uttar Pradesh figuring in the second phase of voting. The districts where polling is on amid tight security arrangements are Saharanpur, Bijnor, Moradabad, Sambhal, Rampur, Bareilly, Amroha, Pilibhit, Kheri, Shahjahanpur and Badaun. Official sources said here that elaborate arrangements

New Delhi, Feb 15: Dashing her hopes of becoming the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a Bengaluru court judgement convicting AIADMK general secretary V K Sasikala in a 20-year-old case relating to the acquisition of disproportionate assets by J Jayalalithaa. A bench of Justices P C Ghose and Amitava Roy directed Sasikala and her relatives V N Sudhakaran and

New Delhi, Feb 14: Wholesale inflation shot up to a 30-month high of 5.25 per cent in January as rising global crude oil prices spiked domestic fuel cost, even as food prices moderated. The wholesale price index (WPI) based inflation, reflecting the annual rate of price rise, in December stood at 3.39 per cent.In January 2016, the print was (-)1.07 per cent. The last comparable high level of WPI

Chennai, Feb 14: Chief Minister O Panneerselvam today made a fervent appeal to those in Sasikala's camp to go by their "conscience" in taking forward the government that was led by 'Amma' (Jayalalithaa). Panneerselvam's appeal came within hours of the Supreme Court upholding the conviction of AIADMK General Secretary V K Sasikala in a disproportionate assets case trashing her hopes of becoming the

New Delhi, Feb 14: The Supreme Court today clarified that the audience need not stand when the National Anthem is played as a part of the storyline of a film, newsreel or documentary. A Bench of Justices Dipak Misra and R. Banumathi made this clear after one of the petitioners said the apex court should clarify if people are expected to stand when the National Anthem is played in a film, newsreel