Banihal/Jammu: Police have detained 12 Rohingya Muslims in Jammu’s Ramban district, officials said on Friday. They had arrived at Dar village in Gool tehsil as part of a Tablighi group, the officials said. The 12 members were then sent to jail in Hiranagar area of Kathua district, where most of the Rohingyas Muslims, who had […]
New Delhi: As many as 8,278 Indian prisoners, including undertrials, are lodged in foreign prisons at present, with 156 of them serving life sentences, the government informed Lok Sabha on Friday. In response to a written question in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan said that due to strong privacy laws […]
Islamabad: Pakistan summoned a senior US diplomat here and lodged a strong protest over America’s alleged “interference” in its internal affairs, an official statement said on Friday. The US State Department on Thursday firmly rejected embattled Prime Minister Imran Khan’s remarks over Washington’s role in an alleged foreign conspiracy to oust him from power. In […]
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday allowed the re-opening of certain areas of Nizamuddin Markaz, where the Tablighi Jamaat congregation was held in March 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic and has remained shut since then, to enable devotees to offer prayers during the month of Ramzan. Justice Jasmeet Singh, who was hearing a […]
NEW DELHI: GST collection in March touched an all-time high of over Rs 1.42 trillion, an increase of 15% annually, on the back of rate rationalisation and anti-evasion steps, the finance ministry said on Friday. With the record collection, the Centre’s Goods and Services Tax (GST) mop-up has exceeded the revised budget target of Rs […]
Agartala: The Tripura government has decided to provide interest-free loans to unemployed youths for raising economically viable ventures, Information and Cultural Affairs (ICA) minister Sushanta Chowdhury said on Friday. It has been often noticed that youths had raised their ventures after taking loans from banks or private players at exorbitant interest rates. “At one point […]
New Delhi: The finance ministry has notified new income tax return forms which, among other things, will seek additional information with regard to overseas retirement benefits and interest accrual on provident fund deposits exceeding Rs 2.5 lakh a year. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has notified the forms ITR-1 to ITR-5. The ITR […]
Navi Mumbai: Mumbai Indians will have the returning Suryakumar Yadav’s flamboyance in the middle-order as they look to bounce back against a confident Rajasthan Royals unit in the IPL here on Saturday. The two teams head into the game at the DY Patil Stadium on the back of contrasting starts to the 15th edition of […]
New Delhi: With 1,335 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,30,25,775, while the active cases dipped to 13,672, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll climbed to 5,21,181 with 52 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. […]
Beijing: The Chinese military on Thursday termed as “positive and constructive” the recently held 15th round of talks between the militaries of India and China to resolve the remaining issues related to the Ladakh standoff and said Beijing was firmly opposed to “interference from a third party”. China and India have agreed to properly handle […]