Spread the love       Educational consultancy operator Shubham Khairnar, suspended junior college teacher Manisha Mandhare, beauty parlour owner Manisha Waghmare and a Latur-based paediatrician moved centre stage Thursday as CBI widened its NEET-UG 2026 paper leak probe, chasing money trails, digital footprints and a growing list of suspected beneficiaries. CBI brought Khairnar to Pune for questioning while Mandhare and Waghmare faced...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: Holding that provisions of CrPC or BNSS meant to ensure the right of an accused to a fair trial cannot be dispensed with even in case of trial under a special law like PMLA, Supreme Court has held that an accused had to be heard before a court can take cognisance of any money laundering...

Spread the love       Officials said there were instances where land sold to developers was used to show capital gains as agricultural income. In some cases, authorities used satellite maps to detect misuse of the tax provision NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has come across many cases where individuals have claimed income tax exemption on agricultural income...

Spread the love       Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez will travel to India next week for talks on oil sales, US secretary of state Marco Rubio said on Thursday, as Washington pushes to deepen energy ties with New Delhi.Rubio made the announcement before departing for Sweden and India, where he is scheduled to arrive on Saturday....

Spread the love       Crime Branch officers said that after jumping parole in 2014, Hemant Nagindas Modi (L) first resurfaced in north Gujarat’s theatre circuit, particularly in Patan, where he quietly rebuilt his life through stage performances. (Poster from “Thugs of Hindostan” starring Aamir Khan) AHMEDABAD: Long before police tracked him down as a parole jumper, Hemant Nagindas Modi, 53, had...

Spread the love       KOLKATA: Cow sacrifice is neither a part of Eid-uz-Zuha nor a religious requirement under Islam, Calcutta HC said on Thursday while refusing to quash the Bengal govt’s order regulating cattle slaughter ahead of the festival or grant interim relief based on a batch of PILs challenging the administration’s directive.The division bench of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: Signalling a push towards further deregulation, the Council of Ministers led by PM Narendra Modi spent over four hours on Thursday taking stock of recommendations of a high-level committee led by NITI Aayog member Rajiv Gauba and reforms by ministries.The discussions happened amid a clear message from PM Modi that govt shouldn’t interfere in people’s...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: Dismissing reports of any shortage, govt on Thursday asserted that there was no rationing of petrol and diesel anywhere in the country and attributed long queues at fuel pumps in some parts to bulk diesel consumers, such as industries, shifting to retail outlets due to a price gap of nearly Rs 42 a litre. Sujata...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: “A bike, a 32-inch LED TV, furniture… all this still wasn’t enough. They kept asking for more, beating her up,” claimed Suresh, a farmer and father of 25-year-old Veena Kumari, who died on Monday night after allegedly falling from the terrace of her home in west Delhi’s Dasghara village.Veena was the second among six siblings...

Spread the love       MS Dhoni and Ruturaj Gaikwad (Image credit: BCCI/IPL) NEW DELHI: Will MS Dhoni play in IPL 2027? The future of Dhoni, who did not feature in a single match in IPL 2026, remains uncertain. After Chennai Super Kings suffered a humiliating 89-run defeat at the hands of Gujarat Titans in their IPL 2026 clash at the Narendra...