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A fire broke out at the Secretariat here on Monday but it was immediately extinguished, officials said. The fire broke out following a suspected short circuit in the AC unit of the information department, fire and rescue department officials said, adding, there were no casualties nor any major damage to property. Government officials said it […]

On Monday, the CBI told a special court that it would not file further final reports for the time being in any coal blocks allocation scam case as the Supreme Court has restrained it from doing so. Special Public Prosecutor R S Cheema told Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar that the agency was ready with

The CBI today sought more time in a Delhi court to give clarifications on queries posed to it in connection with a closure report filed in coal block allocation case in which an FIR was lodged against top industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and others. Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) R S Cheema told Special CBI Judge

Armed with the multi-crore Saradha financial scam issue, the Congress and CPM launched attack on the TMC at two separate events here on Sunday. Congress leaders, holding a convention at Ashutosh College’s Memorial Hall said they would move Supreme Court against state law minister Chandrima Bhattacharya for “contempt of court”. “We have seen how the

Intensifying its probe into the multi-crore chit fund scam in Orissa, the CBI on Sunday night arrested Manoj Dash, owner of Oriya TV channel Kamyab TV, and Madhu Mohanty, owner of Oriya daily Odisha Bhaskar, over their alleged link with chit fund firm Artha Tatwa. Mohanty allegedly took Rs 65 lakh from Artha Tatwa chief

Besides the local population, the Army too has been hit by the floods in Jammu and Kashmir. With the Badami Bagh Cantonment, the headquarters of Srinagar-based 15 Corps, submerged, the ordnance depots, family quarters, vehicles and offices have been damaged. Moreover, landslides on the Jammu-Srinagar-Leh highway and other arterial roads have affected the Army’s crucial

GUWAHATI: A first-semester student of Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, was found dead on campus on Sunday. Police suspect Tushar Yadav committed suicide by jumping from the fourth floor of his hostel the previous night. Tushar, who was studying electronics communication and engineering, was from Gurgaon. Police said they had found a letter in Tushar’s

NEW DELHI: In a reprieve to bar owners in Kerala, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked the state government to maintain status quo and not implement its new liquor policy till September 30. The SC also asked the Kerala HC to decide expeditiously pleas challenging the state government’s new liquor policy, which are listed for

The magistrate returned the chargesheet with directions to police that the case should be re-investigated as there were many lacuna in the sections slapped on Shah, they said. The rejection left the Akhilesh Yadav government red-faced as the BJP state unit has alleged that the Samajwadi Party government added new sections — some serious and

A CPI (M) activist on Thursday surrendered before a magistrate court in Kannur in connection with the murder of an RSS leader. This came after the police issued a lookout notice against the CPI(M) leader. Police identified the surrendered CPI (M) activist as Vikraman, who was suspected among a gang that hacked to death RSS