EC orders out West Bengal DGP, Mumbai civic bosses

Seeking to ensure a level-playing field in the Lok Sabha elections, the Election Commission on Monday ordered the removal of home secretaries of Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Himachal......

'My 7 years in Anda cell were the most inhuman form of solitary confinement'

'When there was no crime committed, everything had to be fabricated.' 'They see it as a war, and everything is fair in love and war.' IMAGE: Prashant Rahi. Photograph: Kind courtesy Jyoti Punwani......

Tamil Nadu film producer, who was expelled by DMK, held in drugs case

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Saturday said it has arrested Jaffer Sadiq, a Tamil Nadu-based alleged dealer of narcotics, in connection with an international drugs trafficking investigation......

Truckers' stir turns violent in Rajasthan; fuel rush across many states

Petrol pumps in many cities witnessed long queues on Tuesday as people came to fill up their vehicle tanks fearing shortage of fuel amid the protest by truck drivers against a provision in the new......

Over 400 top-level posts lie vacant in the Income Tax department

Due to the vacancies 18 chief commissioners are holding additional charges going up to eight in some cases. Amid economic uncertainties owing to the pandemic, the government’s key revenue......

The many battles that Amazon is fighting in India

Among all the geographies where Amazon is fighting regulators, India is the only place where its lines are also tangled in a major corpor­ate battle. Subhomoy Bhattacharjee reports. Several......

New-look FRDI bill to offer higher deposit insurance

The government would be ironing out issues related to the controversial ‘bail-in’ clause in the earlier Bill, explore hiking the deposit insurance cover of customers, and decide whether......

Net closing in on PNB, IL&FS, ICICI-Videocon, AugustaWestland

'The web of transactions is so complex that it requires expertise to understand the strategies involved in each fraud.'Shrimi Choudhary reports. IMAGE: India expects Nirav Modi, who is currently......

Why no state funeral for Ramakant Achrekar?

'It is somebody's mistake and communication gap. I as a government representative, I'm sorry. This is very sad' IMAGE: Sachin Tendulkar, right, rides in the truck ferrying coach Ramakant......