NEW DELHI: The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal Tuesday rejected an appeal from Congress against the I-T department for withdrawing a tax exemption to the party for the assessment year 2018-19 and adding Rs 199 crore as its income through donations.The tribunal, headed by judicial member Satbeer Singh Godara and comprising M Balaganesh, declined to interfere…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has slammed the Telangana Police for converting a civil land dispute into a criminal case at the behest of an influential builder to arrest and harass a retired Major General’s 70-year-old widow, quashed the FIR and asked the complainant to pay Rs 10 lakh to her.The Delhi-based woman owned a 500…
NASHIK: Maharashtra’s agriculture minister Manikrao Kokate, who ‘played rummy’, ignited a fresh controversy as he referred to govt as a “beggar” while explaining a previous remark, in Nashik on Tuesday.Kokate, who represents Nashik’s Sinnar assembly constituency, was interacting with media persons, and was questioned about his previous remarks suggesting that even beggars do not accept…
MUMBAI: The 11/7 case is not the first time ATS’s methods and conclusions have faced judicial scrutiny. In 2016, a special NIA court discharged 8 Muslim men who were labelled “terror accused” by ATS in 2006 Malegaon serial blasts case. The presiding judge stated that these individuals, due to prior criminal records, were made scapegoats…
July 2007 Mumbai local blasts MUMBAI: A day after the Bombay high court judgment acquitted him from the charge of conspiracy in the 11/7 train blasts, Mohammed Ali Shaikh’s Govandi residence was filled with relatives and neighbours who greeted him with sweets, while phones buzzed with congratulatory calls.“The happiness of reuniting with my family cannot…
NEW DELHI: The first truly supersonic fighters to be inducted by the Indian Air Force from Russia in 1963 but plagued by an alarmingly high crash rate in later years, the MiG-21s will fly for the last time in Indian skies this Sept.The IAF is now left with only two MiG-21 ‘Bison’ squadrons, totalling 36…
Opposition protest over Bihar SIR NEW DELHI: Parliament on Tuesday witnessed a strong opposition offensive against the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, with members across party lines forcing a washout of proceedings in Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha, and holding a sit-in in the Parliament complex.INDIA bloc members Rahul Gandhi, Akhilesh…
Vice Chief of the Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan (right) with Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Gen Anil Chauhan. (ANI File Photo) NEW DELHI: Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan on July 31 will take over as the next chief of the premier Mumbai-based Western Naval Command (WNC), which played a crucial role during Operation Sindoor,…
Preparations for NISAR mission NEW DELHI: The world’s most expensive earth observation satellite, NISAR, which has been jointly developed by Nasa and Isro, will be launched after much delay from the Sriharikota spaceport at 5.40pm on July 30, the Indian space agency has said. Both India and the US have been working on the Nasa-Isro…
Mumbai: The Bombay high court questioned the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) over the “integrity” and deletion of call data records (CDRs) in its probe into the 11/7 train blasts, adding “the reluctance of the prosecution to bring CDRs on record and their destruction raises an adverse inference against the prosecution.“The HC said the prosecution’s case was…