Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy. (File Photo: IANS) Thiruvananthapuram, March 16 (IANS) Proceeds from the sale of lottery tickets in Kerala soared from Rs.557 crore to a staggering Rs.5,696 crore during the five-year tenure of…
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…
Islamabad, March 16 (IANS) Pakistan on Wednesday summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner J.P. Singh and lodged a “strong protest” over the Indian government’s refusal to grant permission to its New Delhi-based diplomats to travel to…
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…
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,…
Kolkata: Pakistani batsman Mohammad Hafeez celebrates his half century during a WT20 match between Pakistan and Bangladesh at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, on March 16, 2016. (Photo: Kuntal Chakrabarty/IANS) Kolkata, March 16 (IANS) A scintillating…
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday arrived in Nepal for Saarc foreign ministerial-level meeting scheduled for Thursday. “EAM @sushmaswaraj arrives…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee releases party’s manifesto for upcoming state legislative assembly polls in Kolkata, on March 11, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Kolkata, March 16 (IANS) West Bengal Chief…
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) 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…
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…
Pokhara (Nepal), March 16 (IANS) India is pursuing with renewed vigour its neighbourhood first policy, Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar said on Wednesday. As far as India is concerned, we are pursuing with renewed vigour our…