
The department's top boss said this when asked to clarify if it was mandatory for Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) to provide the details of their foreign bank accounts in certain return forms like the ITR-2.

Kashmiri Pandits were forced to flee the Valley in the early 1990s amid rising threats and attacks during the peak of militancy

The company's credit business arm for the second quarter in a row had almost no bad assets in its book, primarily because it does not do any unsecured lending.

Union Minister and senior BJP leader Ananth Kumar said whatever allegations Ramesh has tried to level are "baseless and unsubstantiated."

In a meeting with the relatives of the abducted Indians last week, Swaraj had said they might be languishing in a jail in Badush, north-west of Mosul where fighting was taking place.

Out of the 48 accused in the muder case of Madan Tamang in the heart of Darjeeling in 2011, 26 accused were present.

In a separate reply, Dattatreya said the ministry is implementing the National Career Service (NCS) project in mission mode to transform the National Employment Service to provide job-related services.

At least 24 people were killed and 42 wounded after a car bomb struck a bus carrying government employees in western Kabul today.

Asked whether the Doklam standoff will figure in the BRICS NSAs' meeting since the agenda included discussion on regional hotspot issues, Lu said, "China and India enjoy smooth diplomatic channels".

The Assam State Agricultural Marketing Board is heavily dependent on the check gates for its cess collection. Funds for all affairs of the Board, including salaries of 1,100 employees, are met from the cess.

TCS employees have also approached Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to ensure that the company did not leave Lucknow.

"We cannot and must not let India be hostage to those who wish to impose upon it a narrow-minded, divisive and communal vision," she said.

Jadhav is eligible to appeal for clemency to the Army chief under Pakistan's law, and if his plea is rejected, he can subsequently appeal the Pakistan president for the same.

Health department DG Dr D S Rawat carried out a review meeting here with officials for effective control and prevention of the disease and directed all district CMOs (Chief Medical Officers) to remain on alert.

The Devendra Fadnavis government has decided to waive farm loans of Rs 34,000 crore with a cap of Rs 1.50 lakh for each farmer.

The Congress and several other opposition parties, including the Left, have been critical of the ruling alliance over the cases of violence by self-proclaimed cow protectors who have often attacked Muslims and, in some cases, Dalits.

The Indians were abducted by the ISIS in Mosul in June 2014.

At least 16 pilgrims were killed and several others injured when their vehicle fell into a gorge on the Jammu- Srinagar National Highway in Ramban district.

Of these, 23.27 crore accounts were with public sector banks, 4.7 crore with regional rural banks and 92.7 lakh with private ones.

Specially serial-numbered pens with violet ink have been supplied by the Election Commission to ensure that only the writing instrument issued by it is used by voters to mark their votes tomorrow.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today expressed happiness as the beneficiaries of the Ujjwala LPG scheme crossed 2.5 crore mark.

NDA's presidential nominee Ram Nath Kovind today met MLAs and MPs of the BJP and its allies in Maharashtra and called up Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray to thank him for supporting his candidature in the July 17 election.

Inox Wind Ltd (IWL) today said it has moved the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, seeking quashing of insolvency resolution proceedings ordered by the NCLT on a plea of one of its creditors.

A total of 18 Bills have been listed for passage in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha in the upcoming Monsoon session of Parliament, a research body, PRS Legislative Research said today.

Utsav Bhasin, the son of a Haryana-based industrialist, was today sentenced to two years in jail for mowing down a motorcyclist with his overspeeding BMW car in 2008 by a Delhi court which rued that cow killers get more stringent punishment than errant drivers.