Public sector banks have sanctioned support to non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) and housing finance companies (HFCs) amounting to a total of Rs 4.14 lakh crore, including Rs 0.97 lakh crore for pool-buyouts of assets of NBFCs/HFCs between October 1, 2018 and September 30, 2019, Parliament was informed on Tuesday....
Maharashtra's Maha Vikas Aghadi government will ascertain if mega-projects like the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train can be shelved in view of a staggering Rs 6.71 lakh crore debt burden on the state, Minister Jayant Patil said here on Tuesday....
As Karnataka heads for crucial bypolls to 15 Assembly seats this week, the ruling BJP has high stakes in the results as it would decide the fate of the B.S. Yeddyurappa government. But the Congress and JD-S have their fingers crossed too....
The last day of the last session of the Delhi Assembly on Tuesday witnessed a ruckus over onion prices, after Speaker Ram Niwas Goel accused BJP MLAs of bringing women in the House for holding a protest and marshalled out Leader of Opposition Vijender Gupta....
A Congress leader in Assam on Tuesday slit his palm inside the Legislative Assembly to protest against the government move to privatise two paper mills at Cachar and Jagiroad. Both the paper mills which were making profits in the past have been lying ...
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dube on Tuesday requested the Centre to come up with a law to ban social media to stop it from circulating misinformation which leads to abusive remarks affecting lives of people. The MP from Jharkhand's Godda constituency raised the issue in the Lok Sabha ...
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday launched 'Madhu' app, an e-learning mobile phone application for school students to understand their subjects in a better and efficient way. The app named after 'Utkal Gourab' Madhusudan Das is developed by Ganjam ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that the Maoists have been restricted to a few areas in Jharkhand by the BJP government in the state in the last five years. "Maoists' backbone has been hit by the BJP in last five years. Maoists have ...
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will celebrate the birthday of its President Mayawati as 'Jan Kalyankari Diwas' on January 15. The BSP leaders have also been asked to use the occasion to mobilise the cadre after the recent political developments in Maharashtra Assembly elections and ...
A lawyer representing five women who have accused late American financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein of abusing them, has said that he planned to serve subpoenas to the UK's Prince Andrew to testify as a witness in all the five cases. The lawyer, David Boies told the BBC: "One of the things that we have tried is ...
