A massive explosion gutted Mexico’s biggest fireworks market Tuesday, killing at least 29 people and injuring 70, authorities said. The conflagration, in the Mexico City suburb of Tultepec, set off a quick-fire series of multicolored blasts and a sent a vast cloud of smoke billowing over the capital city. The market had been packed with customers buying pyrotechnics for traditional […]
» Read moreThe Income Tax department on Tuesday conducted a raid at the premises of Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary P. Rama Mohana Rao. The raids were conducted first at his residence in the morning. A senior investigating officer told The Hindu that the Chief Secretary has been under the scanner for quite some time now.
» Read moreA 17-year-old girl was shot dead in South-West Delhi’s Najafgarh on Tuesday evening. Her friend, who is alleged to be with her at the time of the incident and is currently untraceable, has emerged as the suspect. According to the police, as the victim’s mother spotted her daughter and her friend inside a car near their house, she heard the […]
» Read moreThe government’s email address for black money tipoffs has been flooded with 4,000 messages since Friday, when blackmoneyinfo@incometax. gov.in was made public. “We are getting a good response,” a finance ministry official told ET.
» Read moreThe Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) arrested an exporter on Monday and seized more than 40 kg of gold allegedly meant to facilitate illegal exchange of the demonetised Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 banknotes.Worth over Rs 12 crore, the gold was recovered from various places in Delhi. The exporter operated out of the Noida Special Economic Zone (NSEZ), from where […]
» Read moreA truck ploughed into a crowded Christmas market in the German capital Berlin on Monday evening, killing 12 people and injuring up to 50 others, police said. German police say they’ve arrested a suspect believed to be the driver of a truck that rammed into a crowded Christmas market in the center of Berlin, killing at least nine and causing […]
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