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| | 3 Kashmiri separatists appear before NIA officials in terror funding case | | | | NEW DELHI, May 29(Agencies): Three Kashmiri separatists on Monday appeared before the National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials in terror funding case said reports.
The NIA had summoned two Kashmiri separatist leaders — Ghazi Javed Baba and Farooq Ahmed Dar aka Bitta Karate for questioning in connection with alleged funding from Pakistan-based terrorist groups, officials had said yesterday.
According to the agency officials, the separatist leaders have been asked to bring along details of their bank accounts and property papers.
Last week, the counter-terror agency questioned Tehreek-e-Hurriyat leader Baba and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Dar for four consecutive days in Srinagar, regarding their alleged involvement in raising, receiving funds through hawala cha... |  | |
| | | SRO preps for maiden launch of heaviest rocket that could take Indians into space 'if all goes well' | | | | NEW DELHHI, May 28 (Agencies): As the month of June inches closer, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up for the maiden launch of India's heaviest rocket into space in the first week.
Touted to be as heavy as 200 fully-grown Asian elephants, the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (GSLV Mark-III) could well be the vehicle to take Indians into space.
The heaviest rocket ever made by India, the GSLV Mark III is capable of carrying the heaviest satellites till now. ISRO – that is now at par with and giving tough competition to its global counterparts – enters into a bold new world muscling its way to make its mark in the world's heavy weight multi-billion dollar launch market with its latest venture.
"We are pushing ourselves to the limits to ensure that... | | |
| | | DGCA to get powers to impose penalties for violations by airlines, pilots, crew members | | | | NEW DELHI, May 28 (Agencies): The government plans to provide the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) with powers to impose penalties for violations.
The proposal, which has been in the works for some time, would give more leeway for the regulator in taking enforcement actions against erring entities.
Moving ahead, the Civil Aviation Ministry has already started work to amend the Aircraft Act, 1934.
A senior Ministry official said the idea is to have "more graded granular penal provisions" for the DGCA in dealing with violations.
The proposal also comes at a time when the country's domestic aviation sector has been seeing healthy double-digit growth for over two years and entry of more new players are expected.
At present, the DGCA has the penal power to cancel the license o... | | |
| | | Sale of cows, buffaloes for slaughter through animal markets banned | | | | NEW DELHI, May 26 (Agencies): The government has banned the sale of cows and buffaloes for slaughter through animal markets, rules that will hurt millions of poor farmers and squeeze supplies to the country's meat industry.
The new rules do not amount to a blanket ban on cattle trade or their slaughter, and license breeding remains legal. But the move will crimp supplies to the country's Rs 1-lakh crore meat and allied industries which sources about 90% of their requirements from animal markets.
The regulation is silent on cattle sales by individuals. The worst hit, however, will be the mostly Muslim meat and leather traders who face mounting violence by increasingly assertive cow vigilante groups. Farmers will also be hit because they will be deprived of a traditional source of incom... | | |
| | | Shashi Tharoor files defamation suit against republic TV's Arnab Goswami | | | | NEW DELHI, May 26 (Agencies): Tharoor confirmed the same on Facebook and Twitter in a response to a CNN News 18 story, saying that the case was filed today in the Delhi High Court.
Republic and Goswami had been going at the Congressman with the latter calling out the MP on multiple occasions to respond to tapes related to the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar that the company had in their possession.
Tharoor had responded to the story earlier, calling it an "exasperating farrago of distortions, misrepresentations and outright lies being broadcast by an unprincipled showman masquerading as a journalist.” "I am angered that someone would exploit a human tragedy for personal gain and TRPs. I challenge him to prove his false claims in a court of law," the former UN diplomat had said.
Ear... | | |
| | | I-T unearths 400 benami deals, attaches Rs 600-crore properties | | | | NEW DELHI, May 24 (Agencies): The Income Tax Department on Wednesday said it has identified over 400 benami transactions and attached properties worth Rs 600 crore in about 240 cases.
Keen to implement the new Benami Act to ensure "visible outcomes on the ground", the tax department last week set up 24 dedicated Benami Prohibition Units (BPUs) all over India.
The department started initiating actions under the new Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Act, 2016 from November 1 last year. The law provides for a maximum punishment of seven years in jail and a fine.
Benami property includes movable or immovable, tangible or intangible, corporeal or incorporeal property which is in name of someone other than the beneficial owner.
"The Income-tax Directorates of Investigation have id... | | |
| | | Lalu Prasad's daughter Misa Bharti under I-T scanner over alleged money laundering | | | | NEW DELHI, May 24 (Agencies): The Income Tax department, Wednesday, issued summons to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav's daughter Misa Bharti in connection with the alleged land scam.
The summons came a day after the Enforcement Directorate arrested Bharti's Chartered Accountant (CA) Rajesh Agarwal, in connection with the money trail scam of around Rs 8000 crore. Ms Bharti's husband Shailesh Kumar has also been summoned by the I-T department.
She has been asked to appear before them on June 06.
The Income Tax department had recently conducted raids at 22 locations in Delhi, Gurugram on companies and people associated with Lalu.
As per sources, the raids were conducted on the charges of illegal (benami) land deals worth Rs. 1,000 crore.
Senior Bihar BJP leader Sush... | | |
| | | Cabinet approves abolition of Foreign Investment Promotion Board | | | | NEW DELHI, May 24 (Agencies): The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the abolition of the 25-year-old Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), which currently vets FDI proposals requiring the government approval.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his Budget speech on February 1 announced scrapping of the inter-ministerial body, which comes under the finance ministry's Department of Economic Affairs.
The FIPB was initially constituted under the Prime Minister's Office in the wake of economic liberalisation in the early 1990s.
Currently, FDI in 11 sectors including defence and retail trading requires government approval.
FIPB will be replaced by a new mechanism under which the proposals will be approved by the ministries concerned as per the standard operating procedure approved by th... | | |
| | | Airtel, Voda, Idea caused Rs 400-cr loss to govt: Rel Jio | | | | NEW DELHI, May 23: Reliance Jio has filed a complaint with the telecom ministry alleging that incumbents Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea did not deposit requisite licence fee in March, which led to a potential loss of Rs 400 crore to the government.
The Mukesh Ambani-led firm alleged that Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular, in utter violation of licence rules "unilaterally, wilfully and intentionally paid the advance license fee for last quarter" of 2016-17 on the basis of estimated adjusted gross revenue (AGR), which was much lower than "the license stipulation to pay the license fee not less than the fee paid for the third quarter".
According to the complaint, Airtel paid around Rs 950 crore as the licence fee for January-March 2017. The amount, Jio alleges, was Rs 150 crore le... | | |
| | | State's interests not protected in Vizhinjam port agreement with Adani: CAG | | | | NEW DELHI, May 23 (Agencies): Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has observed that the Kerala's interests were not protected in the Vizhinjam port project agreement with the Adani group.
CAG in its report on public sector undertakings for the year ended March 2016, tabled in the assembly today, said the technical and financial estimates prepared by external consultants were not scrutinised with due diligence resulting in inflation of cost estimates.
"The interests of state government were not protected adequately while drawing up the Concession Agreement", the report said in its conclusion.
Stating that standard concession period for the Rs 7525 crore PPP project was 30 years and by allowing 10 years, extra concession period in the agreement for Vizhinjam, the Concessionai... | | |
| | | 20-25 lakh jobs will be created in IT sector in 4-5 years: Ravi Shankar | | | | NEW DELHI, May 23 (Agencies): Denying the reports of a downturn in employment in the country`s IT industry, Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday said in the coming four to five years, almost 20-25 lakh additional jobs will be created in the sector.
"I completely deny and refute that there is any downturn in the employment in the IT sector. It is robust. Once the digital economy is here, you will see how much it will progress," the Minister said during an interaction with reporters at a press meet in the ministry.
"Indian IT companies are spread across 200 cities and 80 countries around the world, which provide direct employment to 40 lakh people and indirect employment to almost 1.3 crore people. As the industry is moving forward, it is Nasscom`... | | |
| | | First high-speed Mumbai-Goa Tejas Express flagged off: All you need to know | | | | NEW DELHI, May 22 (Agencies): The much-awaited high speed, air-conditioned Tejas Express, which boasts of several ultra modern facilities onboard like LED TV and tea/coffee vending machine was flagged off from Mumbai for Goa on Monday.
Tejas Express is a state of the art train capable of running at the speed of 200 kmph with ultra modern amenities run between Mumbai and Karmali (5 days a week during Non-monsoon period and 3 days a week during monsoon period).
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu flagged off Mumbai CST-Karmali Tejas Superfast as Inaugural Special from Mumbai CST on 22/05/2017 (Monday) at 15.25 hrs via Video conferencing from Swami Narayan Sabhagruh, Dadar. The train will reach Karmali at 00:35 hrs on next day.
The much-awaited high speed, air-conditioned Tejas Express, which... | | |
| | | Coal scam case Former coal secretary HC Gupta, 2 others get 2-year jail term; granted bail immediately | | | | NEW DELHI, May 22 (Agencies): Former Coal Secretary H C Gupta and two serving senior officials were Monday awarded two-year jail term by a Delhi court for irregularities in the allocation of a coal block in Madhya Pradesh to a private firm.
Besides Gupta, who was the Coal Secretary from December 31, 2005 to November 2008, then joint secretary K S Kropha and then director K C Samaria in the Coal Ministry have also been awarded two-year jail term.
Soon after the pronouncement of the sentence, special CBI court granted bail to all the convicts in the case.
CBI had in October 2012 lodged an FIR in the matter, but on March 27, 2014 it filed a closure report in the case.
The court rejected the closure report on October 13, 2014 and summoned Gupta and others as accused.
The CBI had alleged ... | | |
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