Fresh I-T notices to Congress: Party to hold nationwide protests over weekend against ‘tax terrorism’

Lok Sabha polls: Odisha seats again remain missing in second list released by Congress

New Delhi: The Congress will hold nationwide protests over the weekend against fresh income tax demand of over Rs 1,800 crore, which it has described as an "egregious attack" on democracy and imposition of "tax terrorism" amid the crucial Lok Sabha elections. The opposition party said it has received fresh notices from the income-tax department, asking it to pay Rs 1,823.08 crore, Congress general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal has asked all...

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Uttar Pradesh court orders judicial probe into Mukhtar Ansari’s death  

Mukhtar Ansari

Lucknow: A chief judicial magistrate's court in Uttar Pradesh's Banda Friday ordered a judicial inquiry into the death of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari, a senior official said. Banda Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Bhagwan Das Gupta appointed Garima Singh, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (MP-MLA Court Banda) as the investigating officer in the case, the official said. The CJM has sought the probe report within a month. The 63-year-old Ansari was brought to the...

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EAM Jaishankar, Ukrainian foreign minister Kuleba hold bilateral talks

S Jaishankar, India, Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba

New Delhi: India and Ukraine Friday held "open and wide-ranging" talks here as part of a bilateral engagement between its foreign ministers, with discussions focussing on the "ongoing conflict and its wider ramifications". Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba's two-day visit to India comes amid efforts to seek a peaceful resolution to the more than two-year-old Russia-Ukraine conflict. He arrived here Thursday. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Kuleba at...

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Hope that in India ‘everyone’s rights’ are ‘protected’, people are able to vote in ‘free & fair’ atmosphere: UN Spokesperson

United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric. | Photo Credit: AP

United Nations: A spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the world body "hopes” that in India and any country that is having elections, people's "political and civil rights" are "protected" and everyone is able to vote in a "free and fair" atmosphere. Spokesperson for the Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric made these remarks Thursday while he was responding to a question on the “political unrest” in India ahead of the upcoming...

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Rahul-led LSG eye all-round effort against PBKS to pull things back

Lucknow: Lucknow Super Giants will aim for an improved all-round effort when they take on Punjab Kings in their second Indian Premier League match here Saturday. K L Rahul-led LSG faltered in the opening game against Rajasthan Royals, losing by 20 runs in Chandigarh. Barring Krunal Pandya, all the LSG bowlers leaked runs and also looked ineffective....

Israeli airstrikes kill 36 military personnel in Syria

Israeli airstrikes kill 36 military personnel in Syria

Damascus: Thirty-six Syrian military personnel were killed in multiple Israeli airstrikes that targeted military bases in Syria's northern city of Aleppo early Friday. The strikes hit a Hezbollah warehouse in the Jibrin area near Aleppo International Airport, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Britain-based watchdog group said the attacks, which reverberated across the northern...

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Maldives president alleges his predecessor operated on orders from ‘foreign ambassador’

Male: Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has alleged that his predecessor, President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, operated on orders from “a foreign ambassador.” Muizzu, however, neither named any country nor any diplomat. The president made the allegation when he was asked about criticism from the opposition regarding the recent procurement of military drones during an interview with the Public...

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Russia says proof show link between Moscow attack terrorists, Ukraine

Moscow: Russian Investigative Committee has said that it has found evidence connecting terrorists from the Crocus City Hall attack in suburban Moscow with "Ukrainian nationalists". "After working with detained terrorists, studying the technical devices seized from them, and analysing information about financial transactions, evidence was obtained of their connection with Ukrainian nationalists," the committee added Thursday on...

 

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