Gurgaon: An income-tax survey at the city’s prime Badshapur tehsil has revealed that a single fictitious PAN (permanent account number) ‘ABCDEF1234’ was used to register nearly 25,000 properties over the last two years, indicating a large-scale scam to keep high-value transactions under the tax radar.A seven-member team of the I-T department’s directorate of intelligence and…
A stretch of the Orange Line tracks along Bypass Kolkata: Charging of the third rail on the stretch between Beleghata and Sector V stations of the Orange Line has started, a step that precedes the trial run of trains, scheduled to begin from Mahalaya.“Charging of the third rail means that henceforth, there will be continuous…
A delegation of farmers under Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) (Krishak) met NPCL officials over inflated power bills Noida: For the past couple of months, farmers in Greater Noida have been getting inflated electricity bills ranging from Rs 10,000 to Rs 20,000 from the usual Rs 2,000-Rs 3,000 a month. The farmers also said the discom…
BJP workers staged a peaceful protest at Dabolim airport ahead of Karnataka chief minister D K Shivakumar’s arrival in Goa on Thursday evening Vasco: BJP workers marched towards Goa International Airport at Dabolim, protesting Mhadei water diversion ahead of Karnataka chief minister D K Shivakumar’s arrival on Thursday evening to attend Goy Rakhonn Yatra at…
Varanasi: BJP national president Nitin Nabin on Thursday said politics should not divide the country’s youth, asserting that young people should be identified by their ideas, abilities and aspirations rather than categorised as “alpha, beta and gamma”.Interacting with young people at Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith on the second day of his Varanasi visit, Nabin said:…
Ahmedabad: A 45-year-old salesman from Gota lost Rs 17.3 lakh to fraudsters who allegedly promised him a job and work permit by posing as representatives of Canadian companies, cybercrime police said on Thursday.The complainant had come across a Facebook advertisement in May offering warehouse, farming and housekeeping jobs in Canada. After clicking on it, he…
Rajbir Ghuman, OSD to Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann’s OSD, Rajbir Singh Ghuman, has approached Punjab and Haryana high court, challenging the FIR registered by CBI against him in connection with allegations of influencing transfers, postings and official decisions, contending that the agency proceeded without prior approval of Punjab…
A headmaster in Maharashtra’s Beed, who didn’t want to be named, said supplies of foodgrains and pulses have been coming in, but school heads have been paying for cooking fuel and vegetables since June 15. Pune: For the last four months, since the start of the academic year, teachers and headmasters across govt schools in…
Surat: An eight-year-old girl was raped in the Ichhapore area of Surat on Monday. Police arrested the accused, a 36-year-old man, on Wednesday night. He suffered a forehead injury on Thursday after an alleged suicide attempt in the police lockup.Assistant commissioner of police Sweta Daniels told TOI, “We received a complaint for rape on an…
Congress functionaries try to breach police barricades at a protest in Guwahati Guwahati: Police detained several Congress functionaries during a protest outside the Rajiv Bhavan in Guwahati on Thursday against the crackdown on opposition leaders in New Delhi a day earlier, where demonstrators had demanded chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation.Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC)…
