India

New Delhi, Apr 2: To check counterfeiting, the government plans to change security features of higher denomination banknotes of Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 every 3-4 years in accordance with global standards. The move comes in the wake of recovery of a large amount of fake Indian currency notes in last four months after demonetisation. The issue was discussed threadbare at a high-level meeting on Thursday

New Delhi, Apr 2: India and Malaysia on Saturday agreed to strengthen their strategic partnership for mounting an effective response to common challenges of terrorism and extremism during the talks Prime Minister Narendra Modi had with his Malayasian counterpart Najib Razad. The wide-ranging talks also encompassed trade ties. The two Prime Ministers held restricted as well as delegation-level

New Delhi, Apr 1: Weeks after the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office ordered a crackdown on shell companies used to launder money, the Enforcement Directorate on Saturday carried out nationwide searches across 100 locations targeting nearly 300 shell companies. Sources said Saturday's operation across more than a dozen states was a direct fallout of the coordinated action against these firms

New Delhi, Apr 1: Annoyed at being ridiculed in Parliament by the BJP's Manohar Parrikar, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh today called the Goa chief minister ''power hungry'' and a ''cheat''. Parrikar yesterday sarcastically thanked Digvijaya+ for enabling him to become Goa chief minister last month. He was implying that the Congress leader didn't try hard enough to form a government in Goa

New Delhi, Apr 1: Emerging markets face newer challenges in the form of inward looking policies of protectionism and increased geopolitical tension, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today as he pegged India's GDP growth at 7.7 per cent in 2018. Speaking at the second annual meeting of the New Development Bank (NDB) here, Jaitley said global growth is moving upwards and is expected to improve

New Delhi, Apr 1: An Indian student, who was allegedly brutally assaulted in Poland and was claimed to have died, has survived the attack, according to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. Swaraj, on Friday night, spoke to the Indian ambassador to Poland, Ajay Bisaria, regarding the assault on an Indian student in Poznan city whose name was not disclosed. Swaraj sought a report from the envoy

New Delhi, Apr1: Liquor vends within 500 metres of national and state highways will shut down from Saturday. The Supreme Court on Friday said hotels and restaurants falling within 500 metres on either side of the national and state highways cannot serve liquor. While modifying its earlier order, the SC bench of Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice L Nageswara Rao

New Delhi, Mar 31: The government today notified a simpler, one-page form for filing income tax returns while making it mandatory to quote Aadhaar number and disclose bank deposits of more than Rs 2 lakh post demonetisation. The Income Tax Return Form-1 (Sahaj) will replace the 7-page form, removing a plethora of columns on deductions from income claimed. Sahaj can be filed by an individual having

New Delhi, Mar 31: The Supreme Court today relaxed the age limit and allowed candidates above 25 years of age to appear in the NEET examinations 2017. The bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra also extended the last date of filling up the forms till April 5. It said that the age limit can be fixed from the next academic year. The CBSE had fixed the age limit as 25 years for the candidates. The bench

Mar 31: In an openly confrontational hearing, controversial Calcutta High Court judge, Justice C.S. Karnan on Friday challenged a seven judge Bench of the Supreme Court to “arrest and put him in jail” for contempt. Countering an order of the Bench led by Chief Justice of India J.S. Khehar to file an affidavit explaining his disparaging remarks and allegations of corruption against fellow High