A chopper flying with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis crash landed in Nilanga in Latur, Maharashtra on Monday. The helicopter developed a technical snag during take off causing it to crash land. The chief minister and the team in the chopper have escaped unhurt. “Our helicopter did meet with an accident in Latur but me and my team is absolutely ...

The Income-tax Department (ITD) has initiated actions under the new Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Act, 2016 (the Act) w.e.f. 1st November, 2016. The Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Rules, 2016 have been framed in this regard. As per the Act, Benami property includes movable or immovable property, tangible or intangible property, corporeal or incorporeal property. It empowers provisional attachment and ...

Only a handful of IAS officers from Uttarakhand have filed their Immovable Property Return (IPR) for the year 2016. The filing of IPR information has been made mandatory for all IAS officers for which January 2017 was the deadline. As many as 81 officers are working in Uttarakhand against the authorised strength of 120. The officers were required to file ...

A second murder of a lower-caste person in the wee hours of Wednesday, the second such in less than 24 hours, rocked Saharanpur even as the Yogi Adityanath administration struggled to maintain the peace in villages surrounding Shabbirpur, where a Dalit youth was killed on Tuesday. The state government scrambled to contain the situation, suspending Saharanpur District Magistrate NP Singh ...

It is very heartening that credit deposit ratio (CDR) has increased, but still there is scope left for further progress. said Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat while addressing the 61st state level bankers committee meeting in Dehradun. He asked the bank officials to ensure that the banks contribute to the vigorous development process being undertaken  by the state government by introspecting ...

Uttarakhand government, which was under stress since  united forum of Uttarakhand roadways union had gone on hunger strike and announced would stop operating buses by may 25 as part of indefinite strike, has got sigh of relief when they called off its proposed strike. Now there would not be any hitches on char dham yatra. They have been told that ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought status of Deoband-Roorkee rail track laying project  and also into CCTNS (crime and criminal tracking network system) from the state chief secretary S Ramswami while  reviewing PRAGTI (Pro Active Governance and Timely Implementation), through video conferencing.  Chief secretary has assured that the half of the cost-estimated to be around Rs 153 crore aside from Rs ...

Acting against some bureaucrats across Uttar Pradesh, the Income Tax department on Wednesday conducted raids on their premises in the state. “Raids are being carried out against some government functionaries in the state,” a senior I-T department offical said. “The raids are being carried out at the premises of Hriday Shankar Tewari, presently posted as Director (Health). A total of ...

The Islamabad High Court today allowed an Indian woman, who has sought refuge at the Indian mission here after accusing a Pakistani man of forcibly marrying her, to return to India, a media report said. Uzma, in her early 20s, had travelled to Pakistan earlier this month. She has said that Pakistani national Tahir Ali “forced” her to marry him ...

The 45-foot-long whale carcass that washed ashore in two pieces at Juhu and Madh beaches on Sunday is the largest mammal to have reached Mumbai’s coastline, officials from the state mangrove cell said. A day after the decomposed carcass washed ashore, the state mangrove cell confirmed that the whale was a Bryde’s whale that was 13.7 metres in length. The ...