New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presents national budget 2016-17 at the Parliament House in New Delhii on Feb, 29, 2016. (Photo: IANS/ Lok Sabha TV) New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) The Aadhaar bill…
Mumbai, March 16 (IANS) After opening flat and dipping into negative territory, key Indian equity market indices ended higher on Wednesday as investors dropped caution ahead of another crucial meeting of the US Federal Reserve…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) BAE Systems world-class, battle-proven M777 ultra lightweight howitzer, for which India and the United States are in discussions for a Foreign Military Sale for the Indian Army, will take centrestage…
JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) After an advocate, who filed plea to cancel six-month interim bail to JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar in a sedition case,…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Japan has signed for grant assistance of 16 million yen (over $140,000) for two grassroots projects in Delhi and Assam. The signing ceremony of the grant contracts for the two…
Kolkata: BJP leader Siddharth Nath Singh shows videos from a sting operation conducted on Trinamool leaders during a press conference in Kolkata, on March 14, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Kolkata, March 16 (IANS) The Congress and…
Bhubaneswar, March 16 (IANS) The Odisha assembly on Wednesday witnessed pandemonium after the opposition Congress and BJP members raised the issue of an alleged scam in the assistant executive engineers’ recruitment process and demanded a…
By Sheikh Qayoom Jammu/Srinagar, March 16 (IANS) The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) camps in Jammu and Kashmir are more upbeat about government formation today than they ever have been…
New Delhi: Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravishankar, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, Union Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs, and Information and Broadcasting Arun Jaitley, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Union Minister for…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Indians are more comfortable in buying sexual wellness products like sex toys, arousal gels, condoms, sprays and creams online rather than from retail shops owing to shyness, a new study…
Panaji, March 16 (IANS) Under the flak for derecognising the coconut palm as a tree, Goa chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Wednesday promised a string of measures to promote cultivation and enhance the production of…
Mumbai, March 16 (IANS) Personal computer (PC) shipments in India totalled around 2.6 million units in the fourth quarter of 2015, a 10.6 percent increase over the corresponding period of 2014, according to information technology…
Lucknow, March 16 (IANS) In a major reshuffle in the Utter Pardesh Police department, the government on Wednesday transferred eight Indian Police Service (IPS) and 22 Provincial Police Service (PPS) officials, a home department spokesman…
Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar. (File Photo: IANS) Panaji, March 16 (IANS) UB Infrastructure Projects Limited, a company linked to beleaguered billionaire Vijay Mallya’s business empire, applied for a casino licence in Goa, Chief Minister…
Mumbai, March 16 (IANS) A benchmark index of Indian equities markets, the 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex), on Wednesday provisionally closed the day’s trading 131.31 points, or 0.53 percent higher. The wider 50-scrip Nifty of the…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) A court here on Wednesday reserved for March 18 its order on a bail plea of JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, facing sedition charge. Delhi Police opposed the…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Describing BJP president Amit Shah and Samajwadi party leader Azam Khan as the most “dangerous politicians in the country,” historian and author Ramachandra Guha has cautioned that India needs to…
Ranchi, March 16 (IANS) The Jharkhand assembly witnessed disruptions for the second consecutive day on Wednesday over the opposition demand for a domicile policy in the state. When the house assembled at 11 a.m., leader…
New Delhi: Deputy chairman of Rajya Sabha P. J. Kurien during Rajya Sabha session at the Parliament in New Delhi,(Photo: IANS/RSTV Grab) New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P.J. Kurien on Wednesday…
New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Opposition members in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday questioned the status of the Aadhaar Bill as a money bill and also its validity and opposed its introduction in the upper…