Refusing to accept the recent Supreme Court ruling on the SYL canal which held the termination of water sharing agreements as "unconstitutional", the Punjab government took a defiant stance with an assembly resolution on Wednesday stating clearly that Punjab would not spare any water for Haryana. ...
Nearly 40 deaths -- including suicides, cardiac arrests in long queues, hospital casualties and a murder in a fit of rage -- in the past few days have been attributed to demonetisation. The move has caused a huge cash crunch in the country and turned life upside down for the lower middle class and poor families in India....
The opposition on Wednesday tried to corner the government in the Rajya Sabha over the demonetisation issue on the first day of the Winter Session of Parliament, accusing it of leaking the information of demonetisation beforehand to a select few and demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the matter. ...
Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and leaders of three other parties including the Shiv Sena on Wednesday sought President Pranab Mukherjees intervention over the problems faced by people following the "financial calamity" unleashed by the demonetisation move....
BSP chief Mayawati on Wednesday questioned the government's preparedness for the demonetisation of high-value bank notes, accusing it of spending the last ten months on settling the black money of its people....
One civilian was killed and two others were injured when unidentified gunmen fired at a vehicle near a forested area in Tinsukia district of Assam on Wednesday, police reports said. ...
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday visited the 144MLD water treatment plant at Sikandra which supplies piped drinking water to around two million residents of the Taj city....
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, witnessing military exercises showcasing combat-readiness of the armed forces near the Indian border, in an apparent warning to India on Wednesday said any effort to harm Pakistan's national security interests will be met with a "befitting response"....
British charity Christian Aid on Wednesday slammed Britain's four biggest banks for what it said was lack of preparedness in the face of climate change, calling on them to shift their customers' money from 'dirty to clean energy'. ...
The prevailing currency crunch is likely to affect food production in Tamil Nadu as distribution of crop loans by cooperative banks/institutions and payment for farm inputs have been impacted, the state government said on Wednesday....
