Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday to prepare a 20-year roadmap on financial inclusion to mark its 100th anniversary in 2035, and said geographical inclusion must also be addressed to bridge the east-west divide....
Likening union minister Giriraj Singh to people with a "narrow mindset" over his "white skin" remark which suggested she was accepted as party chief due to her skin colour, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday declined to comment on it. ...
Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam and several party activists were detained when they staged a protest against visiting Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Thursday, an official said....
The Supreme Court should not have organised a judicial conference on Good Friday, which is a solemn occasion for Christians, Congress Rajya Sabha MP from Goa Shantaram Naik said on Thursday....
As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) commenced its largest strategy meet on Thursday since coming to power at the centre, it remained unclear if veteran leader L.K. Advani will address the national executive meet....
Over 350 Indians were safely airlifted from strife-torn Yemen, but the returnees on Thursday were apprehensive about their future and hoped they would land jobs....
Nairobi, April 2 : At least 15 people were killed and over 50 injured after gunmen reportedly of the Al Shabaab terrorist group forced their way into a university in the town of Garissa in central Kenya and opened fire at the students early Thursday. Kenya Red Cross officials said at least 56 people, including two policemen, were injured during the attack at ...
Srinagar, April 2 : A soldier and a police official were killed on Thursday in a fierce gunbattle with guerrillas in Kashmir's Baramulla district, police said. Security forces on Thursday morning surrounded a house in Hardashuru village, near Tangmarg, after receiving information about militants hiding there. "As the security forces closed in on t...
New Delhi, April 2 : Jet Airways Thursday said that it has entered into a code share agreement with Germany’s second largest airline, airberlin, from April 2015. "We are pleased to commence our codeshare partnership with airberlin, offering our guests convenient flight connections to Berlin and Dusseldorf via Abu Dhabi," said Raj Sivakumar, ...
Bhopal, April 2 : Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday said that the party will not compromise on the land bill passed by the UPA government and termed as "anti-farmer" the new bill brought by the Modi government. Gandhi, who visited Madhya Pradesh to meet farmers whose crops have been damaged in the recent untimely rains, said that the party was f...
