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New Delhi: The Income Tax Department on Wednesday conducted searches at multiple locations in Karnataka and Delhi related to Karnataka Energy Minister DK Shivkumar, in connection with a tax evasion probe case. 

Officials privy to the early morning raids said a team of I-T sleuths have also reached the private resort near Bengaluru to question the Minister, who was staying at the resort for the night. Shivkumar is hosting his party’s MLAs from Gujarat at a Bengaluru resort till the day of the Rajya Sabha elections on the 8th of this month. 

New Delhi: Chinese President Xi Jinping has warned that his county would never swallow the "bitter fruit" that is harmful to its sovereignty and defeat "all invasions".

In his address to top military and Communist party officials on the 90th anniversary of the People's Liberation Army, Xi said, "We will never allow any people, organisation or political party to split any part of Chinese territory at any time, in any form."

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha has passed the Central Goods and Services Tax ( Extension to Jammu and Kashmir) Bill 2017 and the Integrated Goods and Services Tax (Extension to Jammu and Kashmir) Bill 2017.

The two bills will replace the ordinances promulgated earlier in this regard. The first bill provides for the extension of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act 2017 to Jammu and Kashmir and the other provides for the extension of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax (IGST Act 2017) to the State. 

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has observed that economic rights of citizens and provision for food and other essential items could never be a ground to undermine basic fundamental rights.

The apex court`s made the observation when senior advocate C A Sundaram, appearing for the Maharashtra government, reiterated the Centre's stand that right to privacy would always take a back seat when it came to Aadhaar, which enabled the government to secure right to food, a more important right, for millions of poor living below poverty line. "What is better— two square meals or right to privacy," he asked.