Bhubaneswar, Aug 30 (IANS) The Odisha government on Tuesday ordered a vigilance inquiry against four Biju Janata Dal MLAs who allegedly demanded money to facilitate setting up of industries in their assembly constituencies. The matter…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said India-US trade will get a boost from business-to-business, business-to-government and government-to-government interactions, in a context where new structural reforms like GST will boost…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday said the US continues to support all efforts to bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai and Pathankot terror attacks to justice, and…
Ghaziabad, Aug 30 (IANS) Ghaziabad District Magistrate (DM) Nidhi Kesarwani on Tuesday served notice to Delhi Public School (Vasundhara), which expelled a class 8 student reportedly because her father moved the court against “arbitrary” fee…
Agartala, Aug 30 (IANS) Officials of the Union Home Ministry and two state governments on Tuesday asked Reang tribal refugees, sheltered in Tripura for the last 19 years, to return to their homes in Mizoram…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Maharashtra government if its judgment founded on the Constitution’s Article 19 could be taken away by a statute, as it sought the state’s…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) India Inc on Tuesday proposed that goods fully exempted from excise duty and VAT by states should be categorised as exempted goods in the GST regime, which is likely to…
New Delhi, Aug. Aug 30 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to interfere with Delhi High Court’s order allowing the Indian venture of US food chain McDonald to go ahead with the arbitration proceedings…
Jammu, Aug 30 (IANS) Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said the people of Jammu and Kashmir were the principal stakeholders of any process to bring peace and solve the problems in the strife-torn state….
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) The war between Delhi’s AAP government and Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung escalated dramatically on Tuesday, with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of trying to “destroy” the…
Hyderabad, Aug 30 (IANS) AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday said the Narendra Modi government should adopt a consistent approach on Jammu and Kashmir and take follow-up action after the proposed visit of all-party delegation…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said here on Tuesday that it will be difficult for India to achieve double-digit growth in the current environment of global uncertainty. “Difficult to get double-digit…
Washington/New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) India and the US signed an agreement on sharing military logistics, in a major step forward in closer bilateral defence cooperation, though both sides clarified it will not involve setting…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Centre on a petition that said privacy of WhatsApp users has been threatened by a new policy announced by Facebook…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) India and the US have inked an agreement that sets a framework for the armed forces of the two countries to share their logistics like refuelling, repairing and supplies in…
Moscow, Aug 30 (IANS) Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov, who has ruled the Central Asian nation for more than 25 years, is in intensive care after suffering a brain haemorrhage, his younger daughter confirmed on social…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) Seven people, including a couple, were arrested in Delhi for allegedly running a human trafficking racket for commercial sexual exploitation, police said on Tuesday. Saira Begum, 45, and her husband…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) Pakistan should stop providing safe haven to terrorists and terror groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and the ‘D-Company’, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Tuesday at the conclusion of…
Kolkata, Aug 30 (IANS) The BJP is miffed over the Mamata Banerjee government’s decision not to take up ratification of the GST (Goods and Services Tax) Constitution Amendment Bill in the special session of the…
Jammu, Aug 30 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said on Tuesday that children should be in schools and not on the streets, alluding to stone pelting youths in the valley. Urging the…