In a setback, the much-touted Opposition unity also came undone as the BSP was absent from the House when the motion moved by Trinamool Congress’s Derek O’Brien was put to vote. The NCP did not take part in the debate and Congress sources said its four members, too, were not present during voting.

A top Finance Ministry bureaucrat being moved out and seeking voluntary retirement puts a question mark on key announcements in the Union Budget 2019-20 including the planned overseas bonds.

By identifying seven Bills which they want sent for Parliamentary scrutiny, the Opposition leaders want to not just allay concerns but also make the point that they can’t be brushed aside

When The Indian Express had visited Kumar’s Jhajjar home in April, his mother Meena (50) had said that her son left for Chandigarh at 7 am on April 20, and his phone was switched off thereafter.

The decision to lend to a Sterling Group company in 2015 by the SBI-led consortium has come under the scanner of investigating agencies because the RBI norms mandate that no new credit facilities can be given to promoters and companies who are on the list of wilful defaulters.

The picture sparked outrage on social media and drew remarks such as “Modern Day Maharaja’’ and “Shri Shri Shri DC Ramban Ji going for an outreach program on a Palki’’.

Sources in the BJP said B S Yeddyurappa is likely to convene a meeting of party MLAs on Thursday before they approach Governor Vajubhai Vala. “Things will be on fast-forward in Bengaluru on Thursday,” party sources said in the evening.

ISRO said the next raising of orbit would happen on Friday (July 26), followed by similar operations on July 29, August 2 and August 6.

Dhoni’s wife Sakshi Singh Dhoni was a director and a 25 per cent shareholder in a group company called Amrapali Mahi Developers Pvt Ltd, where Amrapali Group CMD Anil Kumar Sharma held the remaining 75 per cent stake.

“I decided to prove our majority to clear the air... What happened today is not just voting in favour of one Bill but to prove our majority,’’ Kamal Nath said.

Sources said there was “absolute clarity” that Modi had not made any such suggestion during his meeting with Trump on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka on June 27.

Mumbai’s latest coastal zone management plan, approved by the Centre on August 16, 2018, shows that the portion in question is located in the inter-tidal zone.

Betrayal, BJP misled rebel MLAs, says Congress; victory for democracy, says BJP’s CM candidate Yeddyurappa.

Addressing a Tamil Brahmins global meeting in Kochi on July 19, Justice Chitambaresh said: “Who is a Brahmin? A Brahmin is twice born, because of his poorva janma sukratham (good deeds of his past life)."

While acquitting them on Monday, the High Court said the prosecution had failed to provide evidence of conspiracy. It said the prosecution could not establish any link between them and the main accused, Dr Abdul Hameed, whose death sentence was upheld.

From Ajit Wadekar, Sunil Gavaskar, Dilip Vengsarkar and Sandeep Patil to Sachin Tendulkar, several generations of Mumbai cricketers have made that unspoken dash in these maidan games.

The bench said the entire episode “goes to indicate how at large-scale middle-class home buyers have been defrauded of their hard-earned money, taken away by the affluent and the officials in connivance with each other. Law has to book all of them”.

Despite the publicly known differences with some top leaders in the party, the BJP may have to accept Yeddyurappa as its Karnataka chief ministerial candidate when the party goes to stake claim.

The Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) was signed between India and Mauritius in 1982. Under this, any entity could apply for tax residency and pay zero capital gains tax. This became the principal reason why Mauritius emerged as a top channel for investments being routed into India.

This is the first time US President Donald Trump has claimed that Modi asked him to mediate on Kashmir. The two leaders met in Osaka on the sidelines of the G-20 summit on June 27.

Nearing midnight, with the stalemate still in place, Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar adjourned the House till 10 am Tuesday, with a deadline of 6 pm to complete the floor test.

Most manoeuvres will be performed in the first 25 days when the spacecraft will incrementally raise its orbit around the earth, and gain strength for the journey to the moon.

On July 5, the Supreme Court overturned the acquittal of the accused persons by the Gujarat High Court in 2011. The apex court upheld the trial court’s conviction of the 12 accused found guilty in 2007.

Chandrayaan-2 will spend the next 23 days circling around the earth, incrementally raising its orbit, before embarking on a seven-day journey to enter an orbit around the moon.