KOLKATA: A day after a tense standoff with an ED team during its raid at I-PAC office in Kolkata on Thursday, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee lodged on Friday two FIRs against “unidentified” ED officials for “theft, criminal trespass, criminal intimidation and tampering with electronic data” and led a 6km-long protest march in Kolkata, ending…
KOLKATA: BJP Friday alleged “file chori” by Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee during ED raids at I-PAC office in Kolkata and sought governor’s intervention. A BJP delegation submitted a memorandum to governor C V Ananda Bose and urged him to seek a report from state govt on the nature of documents “that were removed”. BJP’s Ravi…
KOLKATA: Union home ministry on Friday sought a report from ED and CRPF on the sequence of events that transpired on Thursday involving ED’s searches at I-PAC office in Kolkata and at the residence of its chief Pratik Jain, reports Rohit Khanna. ED officials, who were part of the searches, have already filed a report…
KOLKATA: Alleging violation of ‘right to privacy’, TMC, in its petition against ED before Calcutta HC, said the search and seizure at the office of its political strategist I-PAC and the residence of the firm’s director came after party chief Mamata Banerjee threatened to go to Supreme Court against the chaotic implementation of SIR process,…
BHOPAL: The New Year began on a worrying note for the foresters and conservationists of Madhya Pradesh. Two tiger deaths were reported from Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, in Umaria, in the first nine days of the year, while a cub has been missing from the reserve for the past four days. On Thursday, the carcass of…
BHOPAL: The central zone bench of National Green Tribunal on Thursday questioned the rationale and legality of permission granted to NHAI for felling more than 8,700 trees to widen a 16km road stretch in Bhopal, reports Ashutosh Shukla. Referring to a petition in this regard, the bench asked the NGT chairperson to transfer the plea…
TOI correspondent from Washington: In the wake of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick’s claim on a podcast that the bilateral trade deal wasn’t signed as PM Modi didn’t call President Donald Trump, the Indian authorities have maintained that the deal could not materialise last summer due to the Trump administration’s insistence on lowering tariffs on…
NEW DELHI: Asserting that the Modi govt over the past six years has created a next-generation shield against terrorism, home minister Amit Shah on Friday virtually inaugurated the National IED Data Management System (NIDMS) – a repository of data on attacks involving improvised explosive devices (IED), designed to aid investigation of terror blasts, analyse patterns…
AYODHYA: The Ayodhya administration has banned the delivery of non-vegetarian food in a radius of 15 kilometres of the Ram temple, following “complaints that food delivery companies are supplying non-veg food in the periphery of Ayodhya town that is marked under ‘paanch kosi parikrama’ area”. A warning has also been issued to hotels and homestays…
Principal secretary to the PM, Shaktikanta Das, said govt’s push for atmanirbharta or self-reliance would enable the country to be an architect of global growth NEW DELHI: Amid a shift in global power dynamics, India will back a rules-based global order while forging partnerships and strategies to secure its national interest, a top govt official…