Rebutting social media rumours swiftly, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said no commercial banks are going to be shut. Finance secretary Rajiv Kumar described such social media messages as "mischievous" saying the government was in process of strengthening public sector banks by infusing...

The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has clarified that the rumours circulating over social media about a proposal for reducing the age of superannuation of central government employees are baseless. There is no such proposal either, sources added. "The rumours circulating...

Antigua Prime Minister Gaston Browne has said that fugitive Mehul Choksi will be extradited to India after he exhausts his appeals. Speaking to news agency ANI in New York, Browne called him a crook and added that Indian officials are free to come and interrogate him. Choksi and his...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to frame guidelines to regulate social media and put in place a mechanism to track origin of fake news, rumours and objectionable material on social media platforms, including Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter and YouTube. Pointing to social media...

The Supreme Court today held that police cannot attach immovable properties during investigation of a criminal case. A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna held that Section 102 of the Code of Criminal Procedure or CrPC does not include the...