Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitely (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Government money by way of various subsidies and welfare schemes should reach the right hands, union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Wednesday….
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Financial services group Orix Corporation has formed a joint venture with IL & FS to expand renewable energy business in India with a special focus on wind energy, a company…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Former Meghalaya finance minister Conrad K. Sangma was on Wednesday elected the new national president of the National People’s Party (NPP) following the demise of former national president of the…
By Anurag Dey Kolkata, March 16 (IANS) With administrative astuteness in her genes and good friend Sourav Ganguly to guide, former sports administrator Jagmohan Dalmiya’s daughter Vaishali is confident of fulfilling her political aspiration of…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) The process for online application for this year’s Kailash Manasarovar Yatra has begun, the ministry of external affairs announced on Wednesday. The ministry said applicants should access the website http://kmy.gov.in…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked Delhi’s civic bodies to pay sanitation workers their salaries for February before March 21. A division bench of Chief Justice G. Rohini and…
By Kavita Bajeli-Datt New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) The unusually warm winter is melting into summer and falling, as usual, in the cusp of this yearly weather transition is Holi, a heady festival of colour…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Janata Dal United (JD-U) president Sharad Yadav on Wednesday called for repealing the sedition law in the country, saying it may “divide the nation”. “Sedition law enforced in colonial era…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday protested Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s decision to refer the issue of a sting operation allegedly involving party leaders to the Ethics Committee of the…
By Preetha Nair New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Veteran Pakistani politician and former minister Syeda Abida Hussain, who has also served as her country’s ambassador to the US, feels that India-Pakistan relations are unlikely to…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) The law on sedition is under review of the Law Commission and the home ministry has asked for a report on the issue as soon as possible, Minister of State…
Mumbai, March 16 (IANS) Key Indian equity indices were trading in the red during the afternoon session on Wednesday ahead of another crucial meeting of the US Federal Reserve later in the evening. The 30-scrip…
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Multi-disciplinary robotic surgery has proved its efficacy in India in just five years and it is now time for the government to step in to ensure that…
By Vishnu Makhijani Gurgaon, March 16 (IANS) It’s a Swedish word that translates into right amount of everything. True to this, Lagom, a newly-opened kitchen and microbrewery in this corporate hub adjoining the national capital,…
Guwahati, March 16 (IANS) BJP’s chief ministerial candidate for Assam assembly elections Sarbananda Sonowal on Wednesday filed his nomination papers from Majuli (reserve — ST) constituency in Jorhat district. Sonowal, accompanied by party’s central observer…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday witnessed acrimonious scenes during the zero hour over a sting operation in West Bengal as members from the Trinamool Congress and the Communist Party of…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Wednesday referred the matter related to a sting operation against certain Trinamool Congress leaders to the Ethics Committee for investigation. She made an announcement…
By Vikas Datta Title: Mohammed Rafi – Golden Voice of the Silver Screen; Author: Sujata Dev; Publisher: Om Books International; Pages: 238; Price: Rs.595 Statistics tells us he sang 4,425 Hindi film songs but the…
Actor Anupam Kher. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Veteran Bollywood actor Anupam Kher on Wednesday said chanting “Bharat Mata Ki Jai” should be the “only definition” of nationalism for those living in…
Shimla, March 16 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh High Court has rapped the central and the state government authorities on the misuse of oxytocin and directed for measures to regulate the manufacture, import and distribution of…