Panaji, Feb 29 (IANS) Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Monday urged the influential iron ore mining companies to resume ore extraction and stop staff retrenchment after sops announced in the 2016-17 Union Budget proposals….
Baghdad, Feb 29 (IANS) At least 17 people were killed and 41 others were injured on Monday in a suicide bomb attack in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, a provincial security source told Xinhua. The…
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. (File Photo: Xinhua/PID/IANS) Islamabad, Feb 29 (IANS) A new book has claimed that Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif received money from Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The book “Khalid Khawaja:…
New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) A court on Monday sentenced, to a three and a half year imprisonment, former union minister P.K. Thungon was convicted in a corruption case relating to the allotment of government…
By Arun Kumar Washington, Feb 29 (IANS) Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have forged far ahead of their rivals nationally in the Republican and Democratic parties in the US presidential race before Super Tuesday’s nomination…
Kolkata, Feb 29 (IANS) The West Bengal government, which has passed a bill to take over the ailing industrial units Dunlop and Jessop, on Monday announced a monthly ex gratia of Rs.10,000 to the employees….
Chennai, Feb 29 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa on Monday said some of the schemes announced by union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley have been implemented in the state and his budget for 2016-17 lacks…
(Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday asked a Maharashtra court to hold daily hearings into the trial of Delhi University professor G.N. Saibaba from March 4 so as to…
CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) Two Left parties on Monday said the 2016-17 general budget lacks “vision” and will lead to contraction of the Indian economy. “This…
Kolkata, Feb 29 (IANS) The Congress on Monday said it has started informal seat sharing talks with the Left Front for the coming West Bengal assembly polls, but conceded there were “difficulties” in the way,…
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. (File Photo: IANS) Ludhiana, Feb 29 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had a narrow escape on Monday when the vehicle he was travelling in was attacked with stones and…
New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) The government will introduce on a pilot basis direct transfer of subsidy on fertilisers to the farmers, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Monday, presenting the Union Budget for 2016-17….
New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) The Delhi Police on Monday admitted on Monday before the Delhi High Court that “it has no video footage” which could show that JNU student union chief Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested…
New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) Former finance minister P. Chidambaram on Monday said there was “no big idea” in the 2016-17 general budget but commended the government on the fiscal consolidation issue. “There is no…
Shillong, Feb 29 (IANS) Senior bureaucrat Kuljit Singh Kropha on Monday took over as the new Chief Secretary of Meghalaya. He succeeded P.B.O. Warjri, who retired on Monday. Kropha, a 1982 batch Indian Administrative Service…
Chennai, Feb 29 (IANS) Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has not announced any drastic measures to recover the huge bad loans of government banks, said a top bank employees union leader on Monday. All India…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that the budget for 2016-17 “lacks both vision and conviction”. “Budget 2016 lacks both vision…
CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury on Monday said he is in “great company” of freedom fighters like Bhagat Singh and Mahatma Gandhi after…
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley along with MoS for Finance, Jayant Sinha, Finance Secretary Ratan P Watal and officials leaving North block office to present Annual Budget 2016-17 at Parliament, in New Delhi…
Hyderabad, Feb 29 (IANS) Legislators disrupting the governor’s address in Telangana legislature will be suspended from the assembly for one year, the assembly rules committee decided at its meeting here on Monday. The committee decided…