As many as 87 filmmakers, many of whom are participating in the 46th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), have jointly written to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley condemning the behaviour of the festival organisers towards protesting FTII students and stifling student expression....
The government plans to set up a high-powered committee to deal with the issue of non performing assets (NPAs) or bad loans of state-run banks, a senior finance ministry official said on Friday....
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday appointed former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh as the state party chief ahead of the 2017 assembly elections. ...
In a bid to keep up another election promise, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has directed officials to provide free electricity connection to everyone in Bihar by November 2017....
Accusing the Narendra Modi government of "manufacturing" intolerance, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday said that "intolerance grows from the top and percolates down to the states"....
Refusing to permit custodial interrogation of former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran in an alleged commercial use of high-speed Integrated Digital Switch Network for the family-owned Sun TV, the Supreme Court on Friday asked him to appear before the CBI from November 30 onwards....
Indian Foreign Service officer Pankaj Saran was on Friday named India's new ambassador to Russia, an official statement said....
One of the finest athletes India has produced, Anju Bobby George was on Friday selected as the president of the Kerala State Sports Council....
India on Friday successfully test-fired the indigenously built nuclear-capable Agni-I missile from the Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast. ...
A session of the Kerala assembly would be held from November 30 till December 17, Speaker N. Sakthan said on Friday....
