New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has asked officials to not rely just on the provision of "criminal conspiracy" while registering a money laundering case, but also add more sections such 66(2) of the PMLA to ensure they stand the court scrutiny, official sources said Monday....
Mumbai: Veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal, who heralded the Indian parallel cinema movement in the 1970s and 1980s with films such as ‘Ankur’, ‘Nishant’ and ‘Manthan’, died Monday, his daughter Pia said. He was 90. The filmmaker passed away at Mumbai's Wockhardt Hospital due to chronic...
New Delhi: The first meeting of the 39-member Parliamentary panel on 'one nation, one election' is set to be held January 8, setting the tone for nationwide deliberations on the key poll reform measure of the BJP-led NDA government. Parliamentary sources said the first meeting...
Tokyo: Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan have announced plans to join forces, forming world's third-largest automaker by sales as the industry undergoes dramatic changes in its transition away from fossil fuels. The two companies said they had signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday and...
Dhaka: Bangladesh's interim government said Monday that it has sent a diplomatic note to India to send back deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina to Dhaka. Hasina, 77, has been living in exile in India since August 5 when she fled the country amid the student-led...
Mumbai: Poet Kumar Vishwas has made an indirect sly comment about veteran Hindi film actor Shatrughan Sinha and his daughter Sonakshi Sinha and said that “the 'Lakshmi' of your house is taken by someone else." Vishwas was speaking at a poetry event in Meerut, Uttar...
Hyderabad: Six persons arrested for the attack on actor Allu Arjun’s house over Sandhya Theatre stampede issue were granted bail by a court in Hyderabad Monday. Leaders of the Osmania University Joint Action Committee (JAC), arrested by the police Sunday, were produced before a judge...
Agartala: Bangladesh owes Tripura Rs 200 crore in electricity dues but no decision has been taken on halting power supply to the neighbouring country yet, Chief Minister Manik Saha said Monday. Tripura supplies 60-70 megawatts of power to the neighbouring country according to an agreement...
Bijnor: The Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested the mastermind of a gang involved in the abduction of actor Mushtaq Khan and comedian Sunil Pal on the pretext of inviting them for an event, officials said Monday. Lavi Pal alias Rahul Saini was arrested after an...
Hyderabad: Top Telugu actor Allu Arjun did not leave the theatre during the screening of Pushpa-2 December 4 despite being told to do so in view of a stampede in which a woman died, police officials claimed. Speaking at a press conference on the annual round-up...
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