New Delhi, Aug 29 (IANS) Indian states are growing at around 10-11 per cent and a dialogue between them and American investors can help in boosting Indo-US bilateral trade, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on…
Bhubaneswar, Aug 29 (IANS) Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Jairam Ramesh has urged the Odisha government to take urgent steps to save the population of tigers in the state. In a letter to…
New Delhi, Aug 29 (IANS) Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will launch a month-long Mahayatra in Uttar Pradesh covering 39 districts from September 6, the Congress announced on Monday. Giving details of the Mahayatra, Congress…
Amritsar, Aug 29 (IANS) The Punjab Police and other security agencies are investigating the recovery of old bombs and a rocket launcher which were found by a labourer from garbage in a locality here, police…
Hyderabad, Aug 29 (IANS) Krishnapatnam, India’s largest all-weather, deep water port on the east coast, on Monday launched its weekly mainline service to China The service to be operated by Maersk line in partnership with…
Chennai, Aug 29 (IANS) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan on Monday called for ushering new owners or managers for companies whose loans accounts have gone sticky, to improve their operational efficiency. In…
New Delhi, Aug 29 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday assured Myanmar, which has newly attained democracy, that India will stand by it every step of the way in its bid to develop as…
Ranchi, Aug 29 (IANS) At least 30 school girls were hospitalised after suspected food poisoning in Jharkhand’s Gumla district on Monday, police said. The students of Kasturba Girls School at Ghaghra, around 130 km from…
Bhubaneswar, Aug 29 (IANS) The coal production and transportation at all mines of Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) was affected due to a 48-hour economic blockade launched by a local group in Talcher on Monday. Due…
Kolkata, Aug 29 (IANS) The West Bengal Assembly on Monday passed a resolution proposing the name of the state be changed to ‘Bangla’ in Bengali or ‘Bengal’ in English. The government resolution under rule 169…
Shimla, Aug 29 (IANS) All 73 passengers were injured when a private mini bus carrying them skidded off the road and rolled down a hill in Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district on Monday, police said. The…
New Delhi, Aug 29 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday permitted the self-styled godman Asaram to travel to Delhi from Jodhpur jail by air for his check-up by a medical board at the All India…
New Delhi, Aug 29 (IANS) Following their agitation against rights abuses and the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Baloch activists will on Tuesday stage protests in three German cities to mark the International Day of…
Mumbai, Aug 29 (IANS) After a heated debate, both houses of the Maharashtra legislature on Monday unanimously ratified the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill, making it the ninth state in the country to do…
Chennai, Aug 29 (IANS) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will train its focus on “mis-selling” of insurance products by banks to their customers and also see whether new regulations are needed for protection of…
New Delhi, Aug 29 (IANS) Chemicals & Fertilisers Minister H.N. Ananth Kumar on Monday said he is pursuing the case for making an independent ministry for pharmaceuticals so that all decisions regarding the industry could…
Mumbai, Aug 29 (IANS) Reserve Bank of Governor (RBI) Raghuram Rajan on Monday ruled out any further interest rate cuts till such time the inflation came down to the comfort zone, and once again asked…
Gurgaon, Aug 29 (IANS) After one and a half hours of heavy rain on Monday afternoon, Gurgaon came to a standstill again. Following water-logging in several parts of the city similar to what happened on…
Anuppur (Madhya Pradesh), Aug 29 (IANS) The bodies of a man and a woman, who had been missing for two days, have been discovered in the district of Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh, in a suspected case…
Agartala, Aug 29 (IANS) Three months after six Congress MLAs in Tripura joined the Trinamool Congress, they were on Monday recognised as TMC legislators by the assembly Speaker. Trinamool leader Sudip Roy Barman, after the…