India

Lucknow, Jul 5 (PTI) Reacting to the General Budget, BSP supremo Mayawati Friday said though the Union government tried to make it alluring, it would only help the capitalists.

"It has to be seen as to how this Budget of theirs is actually beneficial for the people of the country at the ground level," she said in a tweet, adding that the entire country was "distraught and harassed" by poverty, unemployment, poor educational and health facilities.

New Delhi, Jul 5 (PTI) The Supreme Court Friday dismissed a plea which questioned the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) in polls and sought cancellation of the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections.

A bench headed by Justice R F Nariman termed the PIL filed by lawyer M L Sharma as "devoid of merits" and dismissed it.

"What are you asking for Sharma. You want us to set aside the entire Lok Sabha elections," the bench asked.

Thane, Jul 5 (PTI) Three members of a family in Kalyan in Thane district were booked for allegedly throwing out a pregnant woman from their home over unfulfilled dowry demands, an official said Friday.

The victim had married Satya Sonar in September last year and she has told police that the latter, along with his mother Parasakti and brother Kartik Sonar, were harassing her for Rs 1 lakh dowry, the official said.

New Delhi, Jul 5 (PTI) Finance Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg Friday said the government expects Rs 90,000 crore as dividend from the RBI in the current fiscal.

This is 32 per cent jump from the previous fiscal, when the central bank paid Rs 68,000 crore to the government including Rs 28,000 crore as interim dividend.

This was the highest receipt from the Reserve Bank in a single financial year, exceeding the Rs 65,896 crore received in 2015-16 and Rs 40,659 crore in 2017-18.

Kolkata, Jul 5 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday called the Union Budget "completely visionless" which will increase the sufferings of the common people.

Allahabad, Jul 5 (PTI) BJP leader Jaya Prada Friday filed a petition before the Allahabad High Court, challenging the election of Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan from the Rampur parliamentary constituency.

Jaya Prada alleged in the petition that at the time of his election, Azam Khan held the post of the Chancellor of Mohammad Ali Jauhar University, which was an office of profit.

She also alleged that Azam Khan made religious appeals to get votes.

New Delhi, Jul 5 (PTI) In a sudden move, the government on Friday removed CBI Additional Director M Nageswar Rao and posted him as a Director General Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home Guard.

A 1986-batch IPS officer from Odisha cadre, Rao held the position of interim chief of the CBI twice.

According to an official order, he was removed from the post of CBI additional director and posted as a Director General Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home Guard.

New Delhi, Jul 5 (PTI) A school principal was arrested in southeast Delhi's Jasola area for allegedly raping a teacher, police said Friday.

A case was registered in this regard after the woman approached the Sarita Vihar police station, alleging she was raped by the school principal, they said.

In her complaint, the woman alleged that she was first assaulted by the principal in June 2017 when he called her to take extra classes after school hours, police said.

Kanpur: Expressing annoyance at non-functional two motors and electronic panels of 5 MLD Wazidpur STP during his inspection here on Friday, the Principal Secretary (Urban Development) Manoj Singh directed the officials to make its function in accordance with the set standard.

As the new 20 MLD common effluent treatment plant to cleanse tannery's polluted water prior to falling into the Ganga river has to be constructed, he maintained that the old STP should be repaired and new unit should be established on the open space available on the campus. 

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on Friday proposed heavy investments in infrastructure, the digital economy and job creation to lift a sluggish economy burdened with a 45-year-high unemployment rate of 6.1%.

Unveiling a draft budget after a major victory in national elections, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Sitharaman proposed a bigger role for foreign direct investment in aviation, media and insurance.