A key supporter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has roped in former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich to back a new effort to bring Indian Americans, a traditional Democratic political base, into the Republican Party. ...
Welcoming the Reserve Bank of India's decision to cut short-term lending rates by 50 basis points, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Tuesday this will support growth, while showing that inflationary pressures were now moderating. ...
Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's US visit and said there was a need to first make India strong before expecting investment from abroad. ...
In a huge setback to corporate honcho Anshuman S. Ruia and Ravi S. Ruia and their company Essar Teleholding, the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld their trial by the Special CBI court trying 2G scam cases, rejecting their plea that they should instead be tried by a magisterial court....
Springing a surprise, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday cut its short-term lending rate by 50 basis points, but also made a pitch for it to be passed on to end-consumers in the form of cheaper personal and commercial credit....
India on Monday announced plans to contribute an additional 850 troops to the UN Peacekeeping Missions around the world and also pushed for reform of the UN Security Council....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday left for home after concluding his seven-day visit that took him to Ireland and the US....
In the first-ever definitive signs of the presence of liquid water -- and possibly life -- on the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured strong evidence for seasonal flows of liquid salty water on the Martian surface, scientists reported on Monday. ...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday rang the symbolic opening bell to mark the merger of two markets watchdogs -- the Forward Markets Commission for commodity futures with the Securities and Exchange Board of India -- at a function here. ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met US President Barack Obama here on Monday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly summit. ...
