Chennai, March 3 (IANS) With SEBI on Thursday giving the nod for Japanese Nippon Life Insurance to hike its stakes in Reliance Capital Asset Management to 49 percent, the latter’s name will be changed to…
New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi at the Parliament in New Delhi, on Feb 24, 2016. (Photo: Amlan Paliwal/IANS) New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra…
Kolkata, March 3 (IANS) India loses $35 billion each year in road accidents, which is slightly less than the nation’s defence budget, a road safety expert said here on Thursday. According to Kamaljit Soi, member…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) The union budget 2016-17, with the target of holding the next fiscal’s deficit at 3.5 percent of GDP, has given space to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to ease…
Srinagar, March 3 (IANS) Chairman of the moderate faction of Hurriyat Mirwaiz Umer Farooq here on Thursday blamed the government for pushing talented and educated youth to pick up the gun. “Stifling of dissent and…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) A Gorakhpur-bound flight of the Jet Airways was on Thursday held up at Delhi Airport following a hoax call that claimed there was a bomb on board. “A call regarding…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday took a dig at the Congress for poor implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in the states. Citing a…
Bengaluru, March 3 (IANS) Industrialist Vijay Mallya on Thursday objected to the State Bank of India’s (SBI) interlocutory application (IA) before the debt recovery tribunal, seeking his arrest in the Kingfisher Airline’s multi-crore loan default…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) Saying there was freedom to criticize the government in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday pointed out how Stalin could be denounced in then Soviet Union only after his…
Patna, March 3 (IANS) Around three dozen farmers in Bihar’s Vaishali district have refused to reap their standing wheat crops to make space available for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s function on March 12, officials said…
Ranchi, March 3 (IANS) The opposition in Jharkhand on Thursday forced Chief Minister Raghubar Das to express regret over one of his ministers’ alleged remark that legislators take money to raise questions in the assembly….
Shimla, March 3 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh High Court has favoured that loans of small marginal farmers up to Rs.50,000 be waived off or the farmers be allowed to pay the loans in instalments. It…
Srinagar, March 3 (IANS) Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said it is high time that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) asked the governor to dissolve…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) It will be wrong to see central Minister Ram Shankar Katheria’s anti-Muslim speech as an “aberration” and he should be removed from the central government, the CPI-M has said. CPI-M…
Lucknow, March 3 (IANS) A man was arrested on charge of smothering his minor daughter and an infant son to death here, police said on Thursday . Accused Avneesh Bajpayi first beat up daughter Divyanshi,…
Imphal, March 3 (IANS) Manipuri film producer-director M. Raghumani was in critical condition on Thursday after an attack by suspected militants seeking protection money left him half head, police said. Raghumani, a former general secretary…
Kolkata, March 3 (IANS) Freedom fighter and West Bengal’s senior most Left leader, Ashok Ghosh, who was state secretary of the All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) since 1951, died here on Thursday. Ghosh, 94, had…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) Despite opposition from the Congress and the Biju Janata Dal, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday introduced the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill,…
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) A phone call on Thursday claiming the presence of a bomb at a school here, which created a panic situation, turned out to be a hoax, police said. According to…
Imphal, March 3 (IANS) Accused of making a “seditious” and “communal” speech in Manipur, Nagaland Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang has in turn said it’s the government in Imphal that should be charged with sedition and…