New Delhi: Union Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs and Information and Broadcasting Arun Jaitley addresses at the India Investment Summit 2016, in New Delhi on Feb 4, 2016. Also seen the Secretary, Department of Economic…
MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi. (File Photo: IANS) Lucknow, Feb 4 (IANS) MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday appealed to the people of Uttar Pradesh to help him uproot the Samajwadi party (SP) from the state….
Kochi, Feb 4 (IANS) BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday held meetings with top leaders of the state BJP units from Tamil Nadu and Kerala on preparations for the upcoming assembly elections. Four central ministers…
Kolkata, Feb 4 (IANS) Describing intolerance as a huge crisis faced by the country, eminent poet Ashok Vajpeyi on Thursday hit out at the “corporatisation” of politics, saying its sole aim now was to remain…
New Delhi: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia addresses a press conference in New Delhi, on Dec 15, 2015. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) The AAP government will appeal the Delhi High Court’s…
New Delhi: (L to R) Delhi Municipal Corporation Mayors Harshdeep Malhotra, Ravinder Gupta and Subhash Arya meets Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia regarding the non-payment of dues in New Delhi on Feb 4, 2016….
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday sought a report from the Karnataka government on the assault by a mob on a…
Kohima, Feb 4 (IANS) The Nagaland government is ready to play any role in bringing Myanmar-based Naga insurgent group NSCN-K to re-enter a ceasefire agreement with the Indian government, Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang has said….
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) The budget session of Parliament will begin on February 23 with President Pranab Mukherjee’s address to a joint sitting of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. The General Budget…
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) The Narendra Modi government will push a constitutional amendment in the coming budget session of parliament for increasing reservation for women in panchayat bodies from 33 percent to 50 percent,…
Kolkata, Feb 4 (IANS) Asserting that everybody has the right to express his dissent, veteran actor-director Amol Palekar on Thursday wondered why there was so much fuss over people returning their awards as a mark…
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) In the next three years, the government aims to take digital literacy to at least 50 percent from the current level of 15 percent, Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar…
Jammu: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti meets Jammu and Kashmir Governor N.N. Vohra at Raj Bhavan in Jammu on Feb 2, 2016. (Photo: IANS) By Sheikh Qayoom Jammu/Srinagar, Feb 4 (IANS) Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president…
New Delhi: Union Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari addresses a press conference in New Delhi, on Sep 22, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Greater Noida, Feb 4 (IANS) The central government will soon consider…
New Delhi: Chief Executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, CY Leung calls on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in New Delhi on Feb 4, 2016. (Photo: IANS/PIB) New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Prime Minister…
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 4 (IANS) The CPI-M on Thursday said a cooperative sector Kerala Bank will be established if the party is voted to power in the assembly polls later this year. Communist Party of India-Marxist…
New Delhi: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi during a programme organised to pay tribute to former Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his 126th birth anniversary in New Delhi on Nov 14, 2015….
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) As the suicide of Rohith Vemula puts the focus back on the contentious issue of Dalit rights, former IAS officer and author P. Sivakami says that the community is denied…
Actor Anupam Kher. (File Photo: IANS) Islamabad, Feb 4 (IANS) Indian actor Anupam Kher being denied a Pakistani visa is “reflective of the byzantine and thoroughly nebulous visa regime that exists between India and Pakistan”,…
Alleppey (Kerala), Feb 4 (IANS) Kerala’s ruling Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) is “supremely confident” of retaining power in assembly elections this year, Revenue and Coir Minister Adoor Prakash said on Wednesday. “The Congress will…