New Delhi : The Reserve Bank of India on Thursday announced it has superseded the Yes Bank Board of Directors for 30 days and has appointed former SBI CFO Prashant Kumar as the bank’s administrator. In line with the provisions of the Banking Regulation Act, the RBI will explore and draw up a scheme in […]

Mumbai : The state government’s decision to postpone the elections in districts cooperative banks citing farm loan waiver and natural calamities drew a strong response from the BJP in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday. A Bill to amend the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act 1960 was passed in the Assembly giving the government an upper hand […]

Mumbai : Accusing the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi ministers of being at variance with Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray over the implementation of CAA in the state, the BJP on Thursday called for a discussion in the Legislature to know the government’s exact position on the issue. The NCP, however, accused the BJP of raising the issue […]

New Delhi : A Delhi court Thursday issued fresh death warrants for the execution of the four convicts in the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case for March 20 at 5.30 am. Additional Sessions Judge Dharmendra Rana fixed March 20 as the new date of execution after it was told by the Delhi government that […]

Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath said last night that the role of teachers would come under the scanner when “anti-India” slogans are raised at universities and institutions of higher education. “When anti-India slogans are raised at institutions of higher education, we should be prepared to ask why this type of distortion occurrs […]

New Delhi : Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday, March 4 said the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was against the “the idea of India” and the framers of the Constitution explicitly rejected any idea of citizenship on the basis of religion. Tharoor, speaking at the inaugural Dr. N R Madhava Menon Memorial Lecture by O […]

New Dehli : President Ram Nath Kovind has rejected the mercy petition of Pawan Kumar Gupta, one of the four men facing the gallows in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, officials said on Wednesday. The mercy petition of Pawan has been rejected by the President, a Home Ministry official said. A 23-year-old […]

New Delhi : Suspended AAP councillor Tahir Hussain on Tuesday moved a Delhi court seeking anticipatory bail in a case lodged in connection with alleged killing of Intelligence Bureau (IB) official Ankit Sharma. District and Sessions Judge Sudhir Kumar Jain will hear his application on Wednesday. Mr Hussain has been booked in the murder case […]

Kolkata : Asserting that “not a single person” will be driven out of West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that all those who came from Bangladesh and have been casting votes in elections are Indian citizens and need not apply for citizenship afresh. Slamming the BJP government at the Centre for its […]

Pune : A group of locals held a rally in Nanar area of Ratnagiri district on Monday, demanding that a shelved oil refinery project be revived. But the ruling Shiv Sena said the refinery could not be planned at the original site, though it could be relocated somewhere else in the Konkan region. “The project […]