The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has expressed confidence that it will win nine Rajya Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. MLAs in Uttar Pradesh are voting to fill up 10 Rajya Sabha seats today. The BJP, which has a three-fourths majority in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, has enough numbers to get candidates election on eight Rajya Sabha seats. The Samajwadi Party is likely to win a Rajya Sabha seat as well while the final seat will see a close contest between the BJP and the Bahujan Samaj Party. It is this contest with the BSP that the BJP says it is confident of winning. A BSP MLA has alrea ... Read More

Pakistan-based crime syndicate D-company has diversified in many other fields, US lawmakers were told. D-company, like Mexican drug organisations, has diversified. They traffic weapons, counterfeit DVDs, and provide financial services through their extensive system of hawala operators, Dr Louise Shelley, Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government, said during a Congressional hearing organised by the Committee on House Financial Services Subcommittee on Terrorism and Illicit Finance. D-Company is headed by fugitive Indian underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. Wanted in India for a serie ... Read More

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday conducted searches at 9 locations in Mumbai, Gwalior and Shimla at the offices of Financial Technologies of India Ltd (FTIL) and the residence of its former chairman Jignesh Shah in a case of alleged irregularities in launching the initial public offer (IPO) of Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) in 2012. We have registered a case against Jignesh Shah, then MD MCX, four former chairmen of Forward Market Commission and 6 others in a case relating to allegation that accused had facilitated Multi Commodity of India Ltd (MCX) in getting the status ... Read More

The controversial China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project cannot progress without Indian cooperation, Pakistan said on Thursday. Stressing the need for strengthening regional cooperation, Islamabad added that India holds the key to peace in South Asia. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad on Thursday, Pakistan Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms Ahsan Iqbal said, The CPEC would bring prosperity to the region, including China and Pakistan, reported Pakistani Daily Dawn. The ministers comments came nearly two weeks after Iran invited Pakistan to become a part of th ... Read More

In what is likely to brighten the face of many Bengaluru residents, the Indian railways has now sanctioned a Rs 492.87-crore project to ease traffic congestion in the IT city. According to a tweet from the Union Rail Minister, Piyush Goyal, the Railways has given its nod to a quadrupling project with a provision of two additional lines from Bengaluru Cant to Whitefield at a cost of Rs 492.87 crore. The 25-km stretch will involve six most important stations--Bengaluru Cantonment, Bengaluru East, Baiyyapannahalli, Krishnarajapuram, Hoodi and Whitefield. The project is likely to benefit ... Read More

Jawaharlal Nehru University professor Atul Johri, who was arrested for sexual harassment of several women students was on Tuesday granted bail by a Delhi court. Duty magistrate Ritu Singh granted bail to Johri and directed him to furnish a bail bond of Rs 30,000 for each of the eight first information reports registered against him. It is settled proposition of the law that bail, not jail is the rule except where the circumstances are suggestive of fleeing of accused from justice or thwarting the cause of justice or repetition of offences said the court. It took into account the fact ... Read More