Urging Australian pension funds to invest in India, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said here the country will continue on its current path of development towards "eliminating the curse of poverty". ...
An explosion in a building in central Paris on Friday left five people injured, the media reported. ...
Two days after her acquittal by a Delhi court, rights activist Irom Sharmila is continuing her fast unto death in her security room in Imphal's J.N. Institute of Medical Sciences, a kind of sub-jail. ...
Profit booking, coupled with negative global cues and caution ahead of key macro-economic data, subdued the Indian equity markets on Friday....
New Delhi, April 1 A team of Indian investigators will visit Pakistan to further probe the terror attack on the IAF base in Pathankot in Punjab, the NIA announced on Friday. "We told them we want to send a team to Pakistan. They have welcomed the idea," National Investigation Agency Director General Sharad Kumar said. ...
President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday gave his nod to an ordinance authorising expenditure beyond April 1 in Uttarakhand which is under central rule, official sources here said. ...
As leaders from over 50 nations gathered in Washington to discuss the nuclear terror threat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a strong call to the world to drop the notion that terrorism is someone else's problem and that "his" terrorist is not "my" terrorist. ...
The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court on Friday took a grim view of the state-level Yash Bharti awards given to 46 persons and sought the Uttar Pradesh government's response on the issue. Hearing a petition filed by Indian Police Service officer Amitabh Thakur, a bench of Justice A.P. Sahi and Justice A.R. Masudi asked the government...
President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday gave his nod to an ordinance authorising expenditure beyond April 1 in Uttarakhand which is under central rule, official sources here said. "The president signed the ordinance yesterday (Thursday)," a union home ministry official told IANS. The union government approved an ordinance on Wednesday to...
A petition was filed on Friday at the Calcutta High Court for a court-monitored probe into the flyover tragedy here that has claimed 24 lives so far. Filed before the bench of Chief Justice Manjula Chellur, the PIL (public interest litigation) seeks a CBI investigation as well as a panel of experts from IIT Kharagpur to probe the caus...
