NEW DELHI, Oct 27 – Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today formally set in motion the process of reshuffling his council of ministers by holding deliberations with political advisor to Congress president Ahmed Patel and AICC general secretary in-charge for Assam Dr CP Joshi.

The Chief Minister is likely to call on Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice presiden...Read More

Hyderabad: A special court conducting the trial of the accounting fraud at erstwhile Satyam Computer Services Ltd will announce the date of verdict on 30 October, nearly six years after corporate India’s biggest scandal came to light.   Additional chief metropolitan magistrate B.V.L.N. Chakravarthi on Monday said he will announce the date of judgement on Thursd...Read More

After issuing a proposal order to merge National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL) with Financial Technologies (India) Ltd, the government is considering another to make a complete or partial change in the board of the merged entity. 

“Consultation among various government departments is on. We will also consider the ideas put forth by FMC,” said a senior...Read More

The opposition Congress on Monday filed a PIL in the Tripura High Court demanding a CBI probe into the multi-crore Bishalgarh RD block scam unearthed by an internal audit of the state government.

Congress spokesperson Dr Ashok Sinha, the petitioner, said the PIL was filed because “the state police is unlikely to conduct an impartial probe into the scam,&rdq...Read More

The Mizoram Police have arrested a high-ranking political party worker and his accomplice for threatening an Aizawl resident to pay Rs 20 lakhs. The Zoram Nationalist Party has however denied the party’s involvement.

Jacob Lianhuapa (40), currently chief organizer of the ZNP’s youth wing, and Vanlalliana (20), who has been living with Jacob for someti...Read More

CPI(M) on Tuesday accused BJP and ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal of communally polarising the people, saying it signalled a dangerous portend for the state which has not seen communal tension for several decades.

"The so-called clashes between the two parties are on the rise. What is dangerous is that both of them are trying to polarise the people ...Read More

Cuttack/Bhubaneswar, Oct. 27: State crime branch today arrested Khirod Chandra Mallick, managing director of Credible Micro-finance Limited, for allegedly duping depositors of over Rs 5 crore.

Mallick also happens to be the brother of the former minister and ruling BJD MLA Pramila Mallick.

Incidentally, Khirod was partly responsible for Pramila l...Read More

The chit fund scam in Orissa has claimed a victim in the most unlikeliest of places with noted bilingual writer and Sahitya Akademi fellow Manoj Das returning the remuneration that he received from one of the chit fund firms for a literary venture. After revelations about his receiving Rs 10 lakh as remuneration from chit fund firm Seashore Group over running a Odia magazine for ...Read More

BHUBANESWAR: A local court here today allowed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to take Seashore Group CMD Prasant Dash to its remand for 14 days to trace the money trail in the multi-crore chitfund scam in Odisha.

The District and Sessions Court judge D P Choudhury accepted ED's petition and allowed the investigating agency to take Dash to remand. Dash's ...Read More

The Trinamool Congress' official Twitter handle threw up something rather unusual yesterday evening - a series of tweets on the Tata Group, all of them singing praises for the company and applauding the spectacular relationship the state government shares with it. Now that Narendra Modi has praised Shashi Tharoor and your faith in the existence of miracles has been restored, ...Read More