Finance Ministry issues strict instructions on foreign bank accounts.
Modi will hold the post till his superannuation on May 31, 2021.
The ED had recently conducted raids against her and her husband in connection with a Rs 8,000 crore money laundering case.
Millions of central government employees were taken for a ride on April Fool's Day.
After Income Tax, it's now the turn of the Service Tax department to issue a notice of Rs 4.94 crore dues to Yoga guru Ramdev's trust for alleged duty evasion on its income raised through country-wide 'yog shivirs' (camps).
The CBI has initiated the action on the complaint of Bank of Baroda, which was a member of consortium led by Bank of India, which had approached the agency fearing that Kothari may flee the country like Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi.
The scheme initially envisaged conferment of proprietary rights of around 20.55 lakh kanals of land (1,2,50 hectares) to occupants of which 15.85 per cent of land was approved for vesting of ownership rights.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has sent a judicial request to Hong Kong seeking information on Jubilee Sports Private Limited, accused of the alleged irregularities in laying of synthetic turf for the lawn bowl event during 2010 Commonwealth Games. The agency has sought details on the turf contract from Hong Kong through a judicial request -- letters rogatory, recently.
The searches, they said, are related to the department's probe in the biggest haul of cash and gold in Chennai post demonetisation.
The move came after a high powered selection committee comprising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Justice A K Sikri and leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, in a split verdict, decided to transfer him 21 days ahead of the completion of his tenure.
Short-term capital gains tax of 30% is likely to be levied if bitcoin is held for less than three years and 20% if held for longer than 36 months.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against three private cellular companies and former officials of the telecom department for alleged irregularities in the grant of additional 2G Spectrum and causing a loss of Rs 508 crore during the period 2001-2007.
"Post demonetisation, during November 9, 2016, to January 10, 2017, more than 1,100 searches and surveys were conducted and more than 5,100 notices were issued by the income tax department for verification of suspicious high-value cash deposits," Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha on Friday.
Lalu said that the BJP at the Centre is trying to destabilise the grand alliance government in Bihar. M I Khan reports from Patna.
'We, as a nation, must rise up and refuse to be silent spectators to the death of democracy. We stand with P Chidambaram and reiterate our unwavering belief in his innocence'
Instructions of the personal secretary to the minister were taken as instructions of the minister himself.
The home ministry has asked the revenue department to conduct a probe into the allegations of disproportionate assets against former Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan.
CBI sources said a team will soon leave for Siwan after a case is registered by it in the murder of Ranjan.
Some depts have posted bank account & income details on net for transparency; experts cry privacy breach
Mayawati said that she will address the media on her reported involvement in the National Rural Health Mission scam.
A senior official said that Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje gave the direction in this regard to the home department yesterday following which remarks of the director general of police were sought on Wednesday.
The Central Information Commission has held that Income Tax department need not furnish information to aggrieved parties on action taken by it till the investigations were completed.
Security officials at Shastri Bhawan, which houses various Central government departments, and police personnel today were sent into a tizzy after a phone call claimed a bomb was placed in one of the offices there.
The agency is probing the alleged payment of USD 5.70 million as commission to seal the deal, sources said.
A 1985-batch IAS officer with a reputation for industriousness, Murmu is currently special secretary in the revenue department.
The Union finance ministry has set up a special investigation unit to 'regulate' the funding and donations made to political parties.
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh resigned on Monday after the Bombay high court ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the allegations of extortion against him by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh.
'It's unclear whether she is the target of the investigation, or what agents were searching for. The officials said it is an ongoing investigation and no charges have been filed,' reports CNN.com, while the Post adds that "the exact nature of the investigation involving Raphel remains unclear. She has not been charged.'
The development followed the arrest of chartered accountant Rajesh Kumar Agrawal by the ED.
'The skills and abilities of civil servants are still respected, even though they become whipping boys when things go wrong.'
n February 2009, the CBI took over the investigation.
The department said that total confidentiality is ensured to those who declare their black assets and funds
As per the norms, sanction for prosecution has to be decided within four months time of the CBI seeking such a permission.
The tragic US military attack on a 'Doctors Without Borders' hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz last October was a mistake, a combination of human errors compounded by process and equipment failures, the Pentagon said on Friday.
The Shiv Sena and the NCP suspect that either of them may walk into the waiting arms of the BJP. The Congress feels that the Sena and the NCP may eventually team up and marginalise it, reports Dhaval Kulkarni
Over one crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise to decide the political fate of 342 candidates.
'During Amit Shah's recent visit to Kerala, the strategy of concentrating the attacks on the CM on false charges was clear enough.'
The department, according to officials, has reportedly traced instances of tax evasion by various Telecom firms that have been named by the CBI and the ED in their charge sheets.
Bhavana Arora, who had staged an ink attack on Kejriwal in January, hurled a slipper at the AAP leaders' car outside the Income Tax office here at around 3.15 pm.
The top boss of the I-T department said that till now, the taxman has attached 621 properties, including some bank accounts, and the total amount involved in these cases, being probed under the Benami Transactions Act, is about Rs 1,800 crore.
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