Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday asked MPs to ensure smooth functioning of the House during the ongoing Budget session and said they should conduct themselves in a manner befitting the trust citizens still have in India’s parliamentary democracy.
The Supreme Court on Thursday will hear a plea seeking review of its May 15, 2018 verdict, where it let off Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu with a mere Rs 1,000 fine in a 1988 road rage case in Punjab, where a Patiala resident had died.
The city government announced the Delhi Electric Vehicle Policy in August 2020, with the aim to promote the adoption of electric vehicles in the city and to make Delhi the EV Capital of India. With the step-by-step guidebook, the Delhi government aims to become the first state government in India to make shopping malls an integral part of the EV movement.
Punjab Congress MP Jasbir Singh Gill on Tuesday gave a notice in the Lok Sabha seeking a discussion on the alleged harassment of husbands by NRI brides and said there were laws to address harassment by NRI husbands but none even acknowledging, let alone covering, the “anguish caused by NRI bri
SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia’s wife Ganieve Kaur on Wednesday said she thought her husband was joking when he told her to fight from Majitha assembly seat in Amritsar for the February 20 Punjab assembly polls.
In view of rising threats from China and India’s own expansion in the Indo-Pacific, a hike in allocations for modernisation of military, infrastructure and other defence projects has been proposed in the Budget.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi criticised President’s address to Parliament on Wednesday saying it didn’t touch any of the chief challenges that India faces today.
If the Budgetary announcement of a 30 per cent tax on income from an asset with no legal status stumped the common man, cryptocurrency service providers are clueless about the GST that has to be paid.
Two criminals allegedly made a failed attempt to abduct a minor girl in the national capital, a police official said here on Wednesday.
According to the police, the incident occurred on January 31, Monday at around 7.30 p.m. in the evening at Begampura area of south Delhi.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Benita Mary Jaiker said a PCR call was received on Monday at 8.40 p.m. from Begampur area that an 11-year-old girl was taken away by two unknown persons. "Immediately, the police staff reached the spot where mother of the victim girl reported that at about 7.30 p.m. she was inside her home and her daughter was standing on stairs outside," the DCP said.
As the accused duo tried to forcibly abduct the minor girl, she started screaming and crying loudly.
"On hearing the screams of her daughter, the mother came outside the home and found that two boys, aged about 25-26 yrs, were taking away her daughter," the official said.
After this the lady raised an alarm and the people immediately gathered and nabbed one of the accused from the spot while the other person managed to flee away amid the pandemonium.
The police said they have registered a case under section 354 (Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 34 (Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code and the accused which was caught by the public has been arrested.
"Identity of the absconding accused has also been revealed and further efforts are being made to arrest him," Jaiker informed.
She said that further investigation is underway to get the motive behind the incident.
Delhi news: Special public prosecutor Amit Prasad, opposing the bail applications of former JNU student Umar Khalid and six others, made the submissions before Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat and managed to conclude the points of conspiracy, but is yet to argue the individual role of the applicants.
A 59-year-old HIV-positive Kenyan woman has received a new lease of life after undergoing a surgery for removal of a huge tumour weighing over 10 kg from her kidney at a private facility in Delhi, hospital authorities said on Wednesday.
The Congress received a severe jolt on Tuesday when 12 sarpanches, two block samiti members and others, under the leadership of Munish Kumar, alias Monu Cheema, party’s zila parishad member, joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
Income tax return forms from next year will have a separate column for making disclosures on gains made from cryptocurrencies and paying taxes, Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj said on Wednesday.
Over 20 lakh fake Indian currency notes of different denominations were recovered in the country between 2016 and 2020, Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday.
The Union Budget 2022-23 has increased the fund allocation for the Department of Rural Development to over Rs 1,35,944 crore, but allocation for the flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is at least 25 per cent lower than revised estimates of the previous year.
The two-year window provided to taxpayers to disclose omitted income and correct mistakes made in income tax returns, is not an amnesty scheme, Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj said on Wednesday emphasising that an additional 25 per cent tax will have to be paid on income that wasn’t previously d
