Parliament on Thursday passed The Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill which seeks to empower the government to fix the period of maternity leave and the tax-free gratuity amount with an executive order. The Bill got Parliament's approval after it was passed by the Rajya Sabha through a voice vote. It was passed amid a din by the Lok Sabha o...
An Indian Navys Remotely Piloted Aircraft operating from Porbandar in Gujarat crashed close to an airbase on Thursday morning, an official spokesperson said here. The incident, the cause for which is not known, happened shortly after it took off around 10 a.m. No casualties were reported. According to preliminary information, suspected engine failure co...
The Delhi government presented its 2018-19 budget on Thursday. The total budget was of Rs 53,000 crore, state Finance Minister Manish Sisodia said in the Assembly. The budget in 2014-15 was Rs 30,940 crore and Rs 26,402 crore in 2011-12, he added. ...
A 35-year-old man was shot dead for resisting a robbery by two bike-borne assailants on Thursday, police said. Arun Kumar of Karawal Nagar here had returned from Agra and hired an autorickshaw near Anand Vihar in east Delhi around 4.40 a.m. when he was waylaid. The assailants put a gun on his forehead and asked him to hand over his bag, a police of...
Ajay Pandey, the CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), will make a presentation on Aadhaar before a Supreme Court bench at 2.30 p.m. on Thursday. The five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra will view the presentation which will demonstrate that the biometric and demographic data of people collected at t...
The Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day shortly after the House met on Thursday amid an unending Parliament deadlock on the 14th consecutive day of the second half of the budget session. However, the government managed to pass a key legislation that empowers it to fix the period of maternity leave and the tax-free gratuity amou...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has apologised for the data debacle that has upended the social media giant and said he was ready to testify before Congress, a media report said....
A campaign to create awareness of Sikhism and its followers in the US and fight prejudice has won a top award for excellence in public relations programming to promote public causes....
As Facebook got mired into its biggest-ever controversy, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday admitted that the social media giant "made mistakes" over the Cambridge Analytica scandal and a "breach of trust" had occurred between it and its users....
Elon Musk's Boring Company is among the two final bidders to design, build, finance and operate an express rail system from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to downtown area, Chicago mayor's office confirmed on Wednesday....
