India

New Delhi, JUN 22: India made its first official move to clampdown against big bank loan defaulters under a new law as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) moved a court against liquor baron Vijay Mallya seeking to declare him a 'fugitive offender' and to confiscate his assets worth Rs 12,500 crore. Officials said the agency filed an application before a Mumbai court under the recently promulgated

Lucknow, Jun 22: An investigation has been launched against three policemen after a photograph showing them walking with a mob dragging away an alleged lynching victim in Uttar Pradesh created outrage on social media. The 45-year-old man, identified as Qasim, was beaten to death in Pilkhuwa, Hapur district, on Monday evening allegedly over rumours of cow slaughter. The victim was a cattle trader

Siddapet, Jun 22: A debt-laden journalist in Telangana’s Siddipet district committed suicide by hanging himself after smothering his two children to death and strangulating his wife at his residence in the early hours of Thursday. According to ACP Rajeswar, journalist S Hanumantha Rao, 35, working for a Telugu daily at Kondapaka mandal smothered to death his two children Deekhsa Sri (5) and Shine

Lucknow, Jun 22: Gorakhpur terror funding mastermind Ramesh Shah has been arrested in a joint operation by the Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra Police, an official said on Thursday. The arrest was made from Pune on Tuesday and he is being brought to Lucknow on transit remand. Inspector General of ATS Aseem Arun said that soon after his arrival, Shah would be produced in an

New Delhi, Jun 21: The Centre has banned new offshoots of terror organisations al-Qaeda and ISIS under the stringent anti-terror law -- Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, according to an official order Both al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham-Khorasan (ISIS-K), an Afghanistan-based affiliate of ISIS, have been declared unlawful by the Union home

Thiruvananthapuram/Patna, Jun 21: As millions of yoga enthusiasts stretched and twisted their bodies today, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said yoga should not be seen as part of any religious practice while key BJP ally and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar skipped the International Yoga Day event yet again. Speaking at the state-level celebrations in Thiruvananthapuram, Vijayan, a CPI-M

Kolkata, Jun 21: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Thursday called the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a "militant organisation," engaged in dividing people along religious lines and dared it to attack her party. Banerjee, a known critic of the saffron party, also alleged that the BJP was manipulating EVMs to increase its vote share in the state and urged

New Delhi, Jun 21: India increased duties on a slew of farm products, steel and iron imported from the United States, a government notice said, joining the European Union and China in retaliatory action against President Donald Trump`s tariff hikes on steel and aluminum. India`s move came a day after the EU`s decision to charge higher import duties on a range of US products. In tariff rates issued

New Delhi, Jun 21: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today left for his maiden three-day visit to Mongolia, aimed at strengthening India's relation with the strategically important East Asian country that shares its boundaries with China and Russia. The minister in his pre-departure message said India wants to realise the huge potential of bilateral relations with Mongolia. "Leaving for

Lucknow, Jun 21: A woman in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow, who earlier alleged that she was harassed by an officer at a Lucknow Passport Office has now received her passport. The couple, Tanvi Seth and Mohammad Anas Siddiqui claimed that they were being harassed by an officer at a Lucknow Passport Office, as the former was married to a Muslim and had not changed her name. Seth claimed that she was being