(Photo: Sunil Majumdar/IANS) Singapore, Jan 21 (IANS) India is changing its taxation laws towards greater stability and predictability in the tax regime and trying to settle previously pending disputes, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on…
New Delhi: People’s Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti at Agenda 15 organised by Aaj Tak in New Delhi, on Dec 12, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Jammu, Jan 21 (IANS) Even as PDP president Mehbooba Mufti has…
Ashok Nagar (West Bengal), Jan 21 (IANS) Castigating the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal over the Malda violence, union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday assured that those behind the incident would be unmasked…
(AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) Bengaluru, Jan 21 (IANS) A letter cautioning French President Francois Hollande not to visit India for the coming Republic Day parade has been received by the French consulate here, Bengaluru Police said…
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. (File Photo: Xinhua/PID/IANS) Islamabad, Jan 21 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif vowed to continue efforts to wipe out terrorism and extremism from the…
Jaipur, Jan 21 (IANS) The Pakistani security establishment is unlikely to be happy with Indian military aid to Afghanistan, and in the short run this could lead to more Pathankot-like attacks, says South Asia politics…
New Delhi: Union Minister for Human Resource Development Smriti Irani addresses at the presentation ceremony of the National Awards for Innovation in Educational Administration, in New Delhi on Dec 10, 2015. (Photo: IANS/PIB) New Delhi,…
Credit: Youtube New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) Lok Janshakti Party’s Lok Sabha member from Bihar Chirag Paswan on Thursday demanded a probe into a letter written by union minister Bandaru Dattatreya to the HRD ministry…
(160120) — CHARSADDA, Jan. 20, 2016 (Xinhua) — Pakistani army soldiers cordon off Bacha Khan University following an attack by gunmen in northwest Pakistan’s Charsadda, Jan. 20, 2016. A splinter group of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)…
New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) A contingent of soldiers from France will participate in this year’s Republic Day parade on Rajpath here, the first ever by any foreign country. French President Francois Hollande will be…
Patna, Jan 21 (IANS) Ahead of a formal ban on ‘desi’ or country-made liquor in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday launched a campaign to encourage people to abstain from alcohol. Nitish Kumar reiterated…
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh. (File Photo: IANS) Ashok Nagar (West Bengal), Jan 21 (IANS) Calling on people to vote fearlessly and bring the BJP to power in West Bengal, union Home Minister Rajnath Singh…
New York, Jan 21 (IANS) Insurgent groups should immediately stop intentionally targeting journalists and civilians, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. The Wednesday suicide attack on a minibus in Kabul ferrying journalists affiliated with Tolo…
Kolkata, Jan 21 (IANS) As the Indian government prepares to declassify secret files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on January 23, his 120th birthday, those espousing different theories about the eventual fate of this revolutionary…
New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula’s suicide in Hyderabad shows the “anti-Dalit attitude” of the central government as the human resource minister and the Bharatiya Janata Party “justified” it, the Congress said…
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. (File Photo: IANS) Hyderabad, Jan 21 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday demanded the dismissal of the vice chancellor of Hyderabad University over the suicide of a Dalit…
Panaji, Jan 21 (IANS) A day after Subhash Velingkar, who heads the RSS in Goa, attacked the BJP for alleged betrayal of Indian regional languages over English, the Nationalist Congress Party in the state has…
Kolkata: Filmmaker Prakash Jha during a press conference regarding his upcoming film “Jai Gangaajal” in Kolkata, on Jan 20, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Kolkata, Jan 21 (IANS) Filmmaker Prakash Jha, who had wanted to become an…
New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) Hitting back at the Congress, the BJP on Thursday accused the opposition party of “giving a communal colour or caste angle” to every untoward incident in the country. “What has…
Hyderabad, Jan 21 (IANS) The executive council of University of Hyderabad on Thursday revoked the suspension of four Dalit research scholars. The executive council at its meeting on Thursday took the decision even as the…