Chandigarh : Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal today urged the Union Finance Ministry to release the cash credit limit (CCL) worth Rs20,900 crore for wheat procurement, which begins tomorrow. Manpreet, who held a meeting with Union Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa in New Delhi this afternoon, said the latter had promised to get the CCL released […]
New York, April 1 : A judge in North Carolina has ordered a woman to pay $5,00,000 for writing a Facebook post falsely accusing her former friend of killing her son. According to a report in Telegraph.co.uk, Jacquelyn Hammond from Asheville wrote on Facebook, in 2015, of Davyne Dial: “I didn’t get drunk and kill […]
New Delhi, April 1 : The Election Commission has sought a detailed report from the district poll authorities in Bhind, Madhya Pradesh, on media reports that VVPAT was only dispensing slips of BJP symbol during a demonstration exercise. An Assembly bypoll is due in Bhind next week and the demonstration was part of the familiarisation […]
Washington, April 1 : Sikhs in the US are reporting an increase in violent threats and harassment against the community amid rising incidents of hate crimes against Indian-Americans in the country.Chairman of the Sikhs Political Action Committee (SikhsPAC), Gurinder Singh Khalsa, said so far there have been two death threats and two reports of vandalism […]
New Delhi, April 1 : The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday launched a country-wide operation and conducted searches at 100 locations in 16 states as part of its crackdown on shell companies. Officials said multiple teams of the ED on Monday visited these locations and raided the premises of about 300 shell firms in prominent […]