New Delhi, Oct 14 (IANS) In a measure of relief to the fertiliser industry, a cabinet panel on Wednesday approved a special banking arrangement for a loan of Rs.7,000 crore for payment of outstanding subsidy…
New Delhi, Oct 14 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the lynching of a Muslim in Dadri and the cancellation of Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali’s concert in Mumbai were both “saddening and undesirable”….
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “silence” along with the silence of institutions like the Sahitya Akademi is permitting a new “degree of thuggish violence” in India, said celebrated author Salman Rushdie….
Chandigarh, Oct 13 (IANS) Amid the growing number of litterateurs giving up their literary awards over growing intolerance and attempts to muzzle freedom of speech and expression, eminent Punjabi writer Dalip Kaur Tiwana on Tuesday…
Hyderabad, Oct 13 (IANS) Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar will rename the country’s key missile complex here after noted scientist and former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on his birth anniversary on October 15, an official statement…
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) Deposits in accounts opened under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana have exceeded Rs.25,000 crore, the government said on Tuesday. The deposits have come as low-cost deposits. According to an…
Mumbai, Oct 13 (IANS) A day after blackening the face of veteran journalist and BJP leader Sudheendra Kulkarni, the Shiv Sena on Tuesday called him a “Pakistani agent”. Such “elements” may be the handful in…
Guntur, Oct 13 (IANS) Police foiled YSR Congress party president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy’s fast early on Tuesday by shifting him to a hospital, where he was forcibly administered fluids. The leader of opposition was on…
Guntur, Oct 12 (IANS) YSR Congress party president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy’s condition deteriorated further on Monday as he continued for the sixth day his indefinite fast to demand special category status to Andhra Pradesh. The…
Varanasi, Oct 12 (IANS) Phil Scanlan, a member of a US delegation in India to assess NGO Sulabh’s work, on Monday lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Swaccha Bharat’ initiative, saying it has made India cleaner…
Patna, Oct 12 (IANS) Tens of thousands voted or stood in serpentine queues at polling booths on Monday in the first round of assembly election in Bihar — the country’s biggest popularity test since the…
Vijayawada, Oct 11 (IANS) The indefinite fast by YSR Congress party president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy for special status to Andhra Pradesh entered its fifth day on Sunday. A large number of party workers gathered at…
Haveri (Karnataka), Oct 10 (IANS) Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday secured a special relief package from his party-ruled Karnataka government for distressed farmers, reeling under drought, crop failure and a spate of suicides. “The…
Narendra Modi is probably learning the veracity of Stalin’s insightful aphorism that while one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic. In a country which has seen innumerable communal riots over the decades,…
Washington, Oct 10 (IANS) With enormous progress in India-US relationship since Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power, the US says it looks forward to its further deepening and becoming more productive. “There’s been enormous…
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) About one-third of the candidates for the second phase of the Bihar assembly polls have declared their criminal cases, with the BJP, JD-U and RJD fielding the maximum number of…
Washington, Oct 9 (IANS) Overtaking China, India is expected to grow at 7.3 percent in 2015, rising to 7.5 percent in 2016, the International Monetary Fund forecast Friday lowering its April projections by 0.2 percentage…
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) The Congress alleged on Friday that Rs.6,000 crore of “black money” had been sent out of the country from a public sector bank months after the NDA government came to…