Information disclosed in response to an RTI request made by The Wire has confirmed that former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan indeed notified Narendra Modi of the need to probe key defaulters as early as eight months into his prime ministerial tenure – advice that the government failed to act upon.
CBI Additional SP S S Gurm alleged in the Delhi High Court on Wednesday that Special Director Rakesh Asthana, who has filed a petition seeking the quashing of an FIR against him in a bribery case, was misleading the court by placing "selective" facts before it.
A policeman who was critically injured in Tuesday's Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district died in a private hospital here Wednesday, police said.
Former Union minister M J Akbar on Wednesday appeared before a Delhi court to record his statement in a criminal defamation case filed by him against journalist Priya Ramani.
A personal security officer of Kerala Irrigation minister Mathew T Thomas, allegedly shot himself to death, using his service revolver early Wednesday, police said.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sentenced 16 former policemen to life imprisonment for killing 42 people of a minority community in the 1987 Hashimpura massacre case at Meerut in Uttar Pradesh.
The Ayodhya controversy is a two edged sword for the country. It is evident to almost everyone that no matter what the verdict is going to be, it will never be good enough for the country. And they even know why BJP and Sangh Parivar is all enthused about this with elections approaching. Hence it is perceived as the best decision when the Supreme Court does not deliver any verdict on this issue yet. With all this the whole country’s attention was trained towards the highest court on Monday. Supreme Court’s decision on not pronouncing any verdict is the best decision so far on this issue. A bench would decide on the matter of hearing of this case. The Judge said the case would be heard in January.
Slamming the government for reportedly referring to a never-used clause of the RBI Act directing the central bank to implement its wishes, former Union finance minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday alleged that the BJP dispensation is "hiding facts" about the economy and is desperate.
Mangaluru: Mangaluru Literary Foundation will be organising the Mangaluru LiteFest 2018 under the theme 'The Idea of Bharat' at the Dr. TMA Pai International Convention Center in the city on November 3 & 4, informed the event organisor Dr. Rohinaksha.
The smashed fuselage of a crashed Indonesian jetliner may have been found, the country's military chief said Wednesday, two days after the deadly accident feared to have killed 189 people.
