In a pre-dawn swoop, the CBI on Thursday raided residences and an office of some people linked to senior Congress leader and MP DK Suresh at five places in Bengaluru, Kanakapura and Ramanagara for alleged illegal exchange of demonetised currency notes in 2016.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today visited the India-Singapore Enterprise and Innovation Exhibition at Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre here and viewed an exhibition of 30 startups from the two countries. Modi was joined by Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Minister for Communications and Information S Iswaran.
The BJP suffered reverses managing to win just one of the four Lok Sabha seats and one of the 10 assembly seats, where bypolls were held. The NCP and the RLD won one Lok Sabha seat each while BJP ally NDPP emerged winner in the lone Nagaland seat.
The Brahmaputra originates in Tibet and it enters Bangladesh, where it meets the Ganges and drains into the Bay of Bengal. Bangladesh high commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali batted for joint-dredging of rivers and said the prime ministers of the two countries had an extensive discussions on the issue.
The ED today slapped a penalty of over Rs 121 crore on the BCCI, its former boss N Srinivasan, former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi and others for alleged violation of the FEMA law during the T-20 cricket IPL edition in 2009, officials said.
EC has sent two teams to Kairana in Uttar Pradesh and Bhandara-Gondiya in Maharashtra to trace the reasons behind high cases of defects and failure in the voter verifiable paper trial (VVPAT) machines. The reports are likely to be submitted by June 5, sources in the poll panel said.
The reverses in the bypoll results on Thursday have underlined the challenge that the BJP may face against a likely united opposition in the Lok Sabha elections, but its leaders asserted that national issues combined with the Modi factor will pave the way for its win in 2019. 
Rajnath Singh said the government has succeeded in curbing Maoist activities to a large extent. "In India, Maoists are now confined to 90 districts only. Earlier, 126 districts were affected by them," he said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched three Indian mobile payment apps in Singapore at a business event here aimed at internationalisation of the country's digital payment platforms. At the 'Business, Innovation and Community Event' here where digital platform was the main theme, Modi launched India's BHIM, RuPay and SBI app.
The Punjab Cabinet made fraudulent practices by financial establishments a non-bailable offence, inviting up to 10 years of imprisonment, with provisions for attachment of properties. The cabinet has approved a new legislation to this effect to safeguard the interests of depositors and curb fraudulent practices.
The JD(U) on Thursday cautioned the BJP following reverses in the bypoll results, saying the saffron party should make the ruling NDA coalition more "cohesive" and address "concerns" over issues related to farmers and dalits, as well as the petroleum price rise.
Kajal Sharma had told the CBI that Indrani had forced her to forge Sheena Bora's signature on a resignation letter and on a letter seeking cancellation of Bora's leave and licence agreement with her employer. This purportedly happened after Sheena's death.
PM Modi, who arrived in Singapore on the last leg of his three-nation tour earlier today, said that the defence relations between the two countries are among the strongest and the two sides are building a "partnership of our age."
In a big setback to the ruling BJP, opposition parties on Thursday won 11 bypolls, limiting the saffron party and its allies to just three. The opposition made impressive gains in the bypolls to four Lok Sabha and 10 Assembly seats spread across 11 states -- riding high on strengthening non-BJP unity in run-up to the 2019 general elections.
The CPM general secretary feared that the loss in the bypolls would push the RSS-BJP to spread communal tension and create a divide between religious communities to consolidate the "Hindutva votebank" ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Asked about the BJP's performance in the by-elections to 11 Assembly and four Lok Sabha seats in various states ahead of next year's general polls, Singh, in a lighter vein, said, "For a massive leap, one always has to go two steps backward."
Railways has revised its reservation form to allow passengers booking tickets from counters to use the alternate train accommodation scheme which is currently available only on online bookings, the ministry said today.
The BJP and its coalition partner in Jharkhand, the AJSU, suffered a setback on Thursday with the opposition Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) winning both the assembly seats for which bypolls were held on Monday.
Indonesia comes in third with 74 million smokers. As many as 200 million of the world's 367 million smokeless tobacco users are in India, the report (2016 estimates) highlighted. The WHO estimates that, worldwide, there are at least 367 million smokeless tobacco users aged 15 years or over.
"This is a defeat for those who do not believe in democracy and play divisive politics. People have given a befitting reply to the BJP," Akhilesh Yadav said at a press conference after the opposition candidates had established decisive leads in the counting for both constituencies.
The ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal today won the Maheshtala assembly bypoll defeating its nearest rival, the BJP, by a margin of 62,831 votes. TMC candidate Dulal Das secured 104,818 votes against 41,987 by BJP's Sujit Ghosh, Returning Officer Sarmishtha Ghosh said.
The ordinance, which amended the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (Posco), brought down the age of the victims from 18 to 12 years. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), a statutory body under the WCD ministry, has been mandated to monitor Pocso.
The BJP lost the crucial Lok Sabha bypolls in Kairana in Uttar Pradesh and Bhandara-Gondiya in Maharashtra. It, however, managed to retain the Palghar Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra.
Special public prosecutor Lalan Kumar Sinha said all five convicts - Imtiyaz Ansari, Haider Ali, Mujib Ullah, Omair Siddiqui and Azharuddin Qureishi - should be awarded imprisonment for life.
Ukraine is investigating alleged kickbacks to the tune of $2.6 million (Rs 17.55 crore) in India's purchase of spares for military transport aircraft An-32 in which its Anti-Corruption Bureau suspects the involvement of Indian Defence Ministry officials, the report alleged.
The former prime minister was the target of Arvind Kejriwal's anti-graft campaign during the 2013 Delhi Assembly polls and the Lok Sabha polls the following year.
Police said two persons armed with axes tried to snatch the service rifle of a CRPF trooper near the mini secretariat in Kulgam town that houses the office of the district magistrate.
In Kairana, RLD candidate Tabassum Hasan defeated her nearest rival, BJP's Mriganka Singh by over 55,000 votes. SP candidate Naimul Hasan won in Bijnor's Noorpur by 6,211 votes defeating Avani Singh of BJP, adding to the party's humiliating defeat in bypolls barely a year from general elections.
PM Modi discussed with his Malaysian counterpart Mahathir ways to boost economic and cultural relations between India and Malaysia. This is the first meeting between the two leaders. Modi last visited Malaysia in November 2015.
BSP supremo Mayawati has vacated a government house in Lucknow, claiming compliance with a Supreme Court order, while holding on to a second official bungalow which her party says is a memorial to Kanshi Ram.
During her visit to forward areas, defence minister, Nirmala Sitharaman also interacted with local state government functionaries and representatives of other security agencies. She also met local community leaders of the area and appreciated their cooperation in maintaining security.
The Udhampur-based Northern Command is considered very crucial as it looks after Army's operations in Jammu and Kashmir besides guarding the LoC. Lt Gen Singh succeeds Lt Gen Anbu who will take charge as Vice Chief of the Indian Army on Friday.
The minister, Maneka Gandhi, has drawn attention to the fact that in some states the interim compensation to child victims of sexual abuse is not being awarded to meet the immediate medical and other needs of the child for relief or rehabilitation.
