Chandigarh, August 2 : Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Wednesday asked the Chief Minister’s Office to take a call on the recovery of alleged tax evasion of Rs 20,000 crore by Fastway Transmissions Private Limited. Addressing a press conference here, Sidhu quoted the rough figures provided by Supreme Court advocate Vineet Bhagat. Hinting […]
New Delhi, August 2 : The Reserve Bank on Wednesday slashed benchmark lending rate by 0.25 basis points to 6 per cent citing reduction in upside risk to inflation, a move that will lower EMIs for home, auto and personal loans. This is the first rate cut since October 2016 and the interest rate is […]
Amritsar : The Union Ministry of Home Affairs and Justice has directed the Punjab Government to take appropriate action against the cops who had framed Kirpal Singh Randhawa (56), a human rights activist and a key witness in the Jaswant Singh Khalra murder case. Khalra, also a human rights activist, was kidnapped and murdered by the […]
Amritsar : Pathis (priests) working at the Golden Temple today protested against “low wages” in the presence of SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal and Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal, who had organised an “akhand path”. The pathis, supported by colleagues from Gurdwara Shahidan Sahib, Gurdwara Budha Sahib and Gurdwara Baba Bakala, refused to accept fresh […]
Zhukovsky (Russia), August 1 : Russia will always be India’s strategic partner despite New Delhi’s growing ties with countries like the US, France and Israel as there are certain defence products and technology that “no one else will give” except Moscow, a top Russian official has said. Sergei Chemezov, the CEO of the Rostec State […]