Lower lending rates following a series of policy rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of India and a sharp cut in the corporate tax rates will spur a recovery in India next year, a report said on Monday. "The turnaround is likely to show up beginning in the October-December quarter,...
The Congress in Kerala on Monday made it clear that if voted to office they would wind up the proposed Kerala Bank. "If we are elected to office, we will wind up the Kerala Bank. We are soon going to approach the court as this Bank has been created by completely ...
Bharatiya Janata Party leader from Karnataka Ananth K. Hegde sparked off a major political controversy by alleging that in his 80 hours tenure, the former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis "moved Rs 40,000-crore back to the Centre"....
In a shocking case, a 17-year-old girl in Rajasthan's Jalore district was kept chained and allegedly raped repeatedly by her father in their home, the police said. In a police complaint, the minor has accused her father of keeping her hands and legs tied with heavy chains and raping her after she saw him in a ...
Opposition members in the Lok Sabha led by the Congress on Monday raised the gang-rape and murder of a young woman veterinary doctor in Hyderabad with Speaker Om Birla advising them to take up the matter in Zero Hour. Soon after the House assembled for the day, several opposition members were on ...
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday advised lawmakers to improve the quality of questions they raise in the House during Question Hour and mentioned that state subjects are not dealt by the Centre. Birla's remarks came when an MP requested the Centre to install drinking water...
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has said the state government will "review" the Rs 1.10 lakh crore Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train project, considered as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's dream offering to the nation. The Sunday move came barely a couple of days after he stopped work on another ...
Fifteen people were killed on Monday when a wall collapsed on their houses near Coimbatore as torrential rains lashed Tamil Nadu, said police. According to the police, at around 5.30 a.m., the 20-foot wall fell on four houses, resulting in their collapse and killing the victims while they were ...
The Congress on Monday will hold a key meeting of its Haryana unit to prepare for the proposed rally on December 14 at the Ramlila Maidan here that will highlight the issue of economic slowdown, unemployment, farmers distress and soaring prices, besides putting up a show of strength by the Opposition....
A West Bengal Civil Service executive has courted controversy by comparing Swami Vivekananda with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, saying that he gets recharged and derives strength when he stands before the photographs of either of them. Speaking at a relief distribution programme in North 24 Parganas district,...
