New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Faulting every concerned government agency over a cultural event to be held on the fragile banks of Yamuna this weekend, a green court has slapped a Rs.5-crore fine on its…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) The government on Wednesday expressed the hope that parliament will pass the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill in the ongoing budget session for enacting the comprehensive reform of…
Patna, March 9 (IANS) The use of army personnel for a private or a non-governmental organisation’s event, like the mega cultural show of the Art of Living Foundation in Delhi, is a wrong precedent, Bihar…
Mumbai, March 9 (IANS) The proposed Navi Mumbai International Airport is expected to be operational in three years and the first flight is targeted to take off from there in 2019, Maharashtra Governor C.V. Rao…
Ranchi, March 9 (IANS) Jharkhand will set up a Primitive Tribe Development Authority for the development of basic infrastructure and other works to benefit these sections of society in the state, Chief Minister Raghubar Das…
(Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday extended, till April 28, the interim bail granted to social activists Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand in the alleged misuse of funds…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Wednesday the controversies over spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living (AoL) event should now end. ”Now that NGT (National Green…
Kolkata, March 9 (IANS) Ridiculing the Congress and the CPI-M for forging an electoral understanding, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday wondered if their own party people would accept such a “selfish” and…
Patna, March 9 (IANS) Amid the opposition’s demand for the resignation of a Bihar minister for meeting former MP Mohammad Shahabuddin in jail, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said he had asked the IG…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Over 90 percent of the total foreign direct investment (FDI) received during the first nine months (April-December) of this fiscal came through the automatic route, parliament was informed on Wednesday….
Chandigarh, March 9 (IANS) Two AAP MPs from Punjab on Wednesday offered to pay from their MPLADS funds the expenses borne on the deployment of paramilitary forces during a terror attack on the Pathankot Air…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Lack of “structural stability” is among five major “shortcomings” detected by Delhi Police in the infrastructure being readied for the three-day World Culture Festival being organised by Sri Sri Ravi…
Kolkata, March 9 (IANS) At least 50 children in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district fell ill on Wednesday following a de-worming exercise to bring down parasitic infections, an official said. “In Basanti area of…
MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday termed as an “anti-minority legislation” a bill on enemy property introduced by the government in the Lok…
Gurgaon, March 9 (IANS) The family members of a schoolboy admitted in an upscale private hospital after an accident on Wednesday accused its doctors of keeping them in the dark over his condition just to…
Chandigarh, March 9 (IANS) A fourth of the promised Rs.5.84 lakh crore investment in Haryana during the just-concluded ‘Happening Haryana’ global investors’ summit has been made for three districts worst affected by violence during the…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: IANS/PIB) New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked the Congress on Wednesday, comparing it to “death” which he said never gets criticised, even as he…
Guwahati, March 9 (IANS) In a development that might benefit Assam’s ruling Congress ahead of the April assembly elections, the BJP and the AGP have split over the alliance between the two. Both the newly…
Chennai, March 9 (IANS) India’s central bank, the RBI on Wednesday said that the restrictions placed on the purchase of Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd’s shares are withdrawn immediately. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Regional rural banks employees’ unions have called a two-day nationwide strike from Thursday in support of their demands and to protest against alleged moves to denationalise RRBs. The strike, called…