Shillong, March 14 (IANS) Liquor, petroleum and limestone will be more expensive in Meghalaya as the government on Monday levied fresh taxes on them to meet shrinking resources after the National Green Tribunal banned coal…
Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar. (File Photo: IANS) Panaji, March 14 (IANS) Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Monday said he was invited to Vijay Mallya’s birthday bash but he rejected “with folded hands” the…
Shimla, March 14 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Governor Acharya Devvrat, as part of his initiative to promote the value of the girl child, on Monday visited two panchayats in Mandi district where girls were born and…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The row between Punjab and Haryana on the former’s decision to enact a law denotifying the 5,300 acres of land acquired for Sutlej-Yamuna Link Canal on Monday reached the Supreme…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) The third reverse e-auction for stranded gas-based power plants to get government subsidy for buying costlier imported natural gas will get underway for two days here beginning on Tuesday. Auctions…
Silchar, March 14 (IANS) While the Left parties are finalising ‘seat adjustment’ with the Congress in West Bengal for the forthcoming assembly polls, they will be decrying their ‘friendly’ party’s “misgovernance” in the neighbouring Barak…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Opposition members in the Rajya Sabha on Monday urged the government to extend the session of the house to discuss and pass bills, and informed sources said the request is…
Thiruvananthapuram, March 14 (IANS) Congress leader A.K. Antony, JD-U’s M.P. Veerendra Kumar and the CPI-M’s K. Somaprasad were on Monday declared elected to the Rajya Sabha from Kerala. With Monday being the last date for…
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Gearing up for the upcoming peak season of India’s $1 billion plus carbonated beverages market, PepsiCo on Monday announced a 150-ml mini can for its flagship cola, and pet bottles…
Kolkata, March 14 (IANS) The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) is expanding its database of genetic sequences to enable precise identification of animals using DNA barcoding which will aid in wildlife crime detection and control,…
Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Revised pensions under the ‘One Rank One Pension’ (OROP) scheme have been given to over two lakh defence pensioners along with the…
Mumbai, March 14 (IANS) Key Indian equity market indices ended higher on Monday following global cues and on hopes of better retail inflation numbers expected later in the day. A benchmark index for Indian equities,…
Kolkata, March 14 (IANS) A simple click of a button will soon tell you which animals live where in India, courtesy a GIS-enabled web-based platform where information on over 96,000 species will be provided by…
Bhubaneswar, March 14 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday urged the central government to direct the ASI to send its best experts for repairing the hall facing the sanctum sanctorum of Shri Jagannath…
New Delhi: War veterans return their medals to press for faster implementation of OROP at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Nov 10, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Mumbai, March 14 (IANS) The State Bank of India…
Kolkata, March 14 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress and the opposition in West Bengal on Monday indulged in a war of words after a sting operation by a news website accused several ruling party leaders of…
Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar. (File Photo: IANS) Panaji, March 14 (IANS) The first day proceedings of Goa assembly’s budget session got off to a stormy start on Monday, with the Opposition accusing the state…
Chennai, March 14 (IANS) A 23-year-old Dalit man who married into the politically influential Thevar community was hacked to death in front of a large number of people in a Tamil Nadu town, police said…
Imphal, March 14 (IANS) The Manipur government may have to close down a new temporary marketing complex here which was built to house women vendors whose shops were damaged in the January 4 earthquake. Women…
Patna, March 14 (IANS) RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Monday credited his wife and former chief minister Rabri Devi for the change in the RSS’s dress code from khaki shorts to trousers. “Rabri Devi has…