Lucknow, Nov 8 (IANS) Union Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday attacked the family of Congress President Sonia Gandhi by dubbing it a “family synonymous with graft” and said demonetisation was a tragedy for the family….
New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) India Inc. on Wednesday expressed mixed responses on the first anniversary of demonetisation. The Associated Chambers of Commerce of India (Assocham) said its stand on demonetisation — “short term pain,…
Greater Noida, Nov 8 (IANS) Around two dozen cars crashed into each other in the season’s first vehicle pile-up on the Yamuna Expressway on Wednesday morning, injuring at least eight Delhi residents as blinding haze…
New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju on Wednesday asked the sector regulator to probe the October 15 incident in which an IndiGo airline passenger was manhandled by the carrier’s staff…
Bhubaneswar, Nov 8 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday ordered a judicial probe and also a simultaneous Crime Branch investigation into the alleged rape of a tribal girl in Koraput district by four…
New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and a Supreme Court-appointed environment body have recommended “free of cost public transport” in Delhi for the next few days as the region faces…
New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday held a protest march outside Thyagaraj Stadium here with around 1,000 party workers raising slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government’s decision…
Mumbai, Nov 8 (IANS) Heavy selling pressure in metals, automobile and banking stocks, coupled with negative global cues and outflow of foreign funds, suppressed the key Indian equity indices on Wednesday. Market observers opined that…
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 8 (IANS) Kerala’s main rival political fronts, the CPI-M-led Left and Congress-led UDF, on Wednesday for a change appeared to have a common agenda when they both slammed the Modi government over demonetisation,…
Shimla, Nov 8 (IANS) Sixty-eight Assembly seats will on Thursday go to the polls in a single phase in Congress-ruled Himachal Pradesh, where the BJP is determined to take power. Officials said everything was in…
Hyderabad, Nov 8 (IANS) The Telangana government has sealed the office of the State Wakf Board, pending an inquiry into alleged irregularities. Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao is likely to announce in the Assembly on…
New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Five years after the Nirbhaya gang rape case in Delhi, rape victims are still facing barriers to getting justice in India, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. Rape survivors in…
Washington, Nov 8 (IANS) Syria has announced it will join the Paris climate agreement, leaving the US as the only country in the world which has not signed on to the landmark deal. Syrian officials…
New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) A court here on Wednesday sent nine persons, arrested on charges of funding terror in Jammu and Kashmir, to NIA custody till November 21. During in-camera proceedings, District Judge Poonam…
Madurai, Nov 8 (IANS) Scotching speculation that DMK was getting close to BJP, M.K. Stalin on Wednesday said the “dream” of some people of such a possibility cannot be realised and warned the Modi government…
New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) One of the nine accused arrested by the NIA introduced himself as a former senior DRI official to facilitate exchange of spiked currency of Rs 36.34 crore, even as the…
Islamabad, Nov 8 (IANS) The accountability court here on Wednesday dismissed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s plea for clubbing three corruption references filed against him by the anti-graft body in the so-called Panama Papers scandal….
Guwahati, Nov 8 (IANS) Assam Police on Wednesday arrested 14 officers recruited by the Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) for their alleged involvement in a cash-for-jobs scam amid indications that another 11 officers will be…
New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) With air pollution in Delhi increasing to the severe level, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday urged his Haryana and Punjab counterparts for a meeting in order to jointly tackle…
Bhubaneswar, Nov 8 (IANS) A year after demonetisation, scrapped Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes continue to find their way into donation boxes at some temples in Odisha. Unable to dump their old currency notes,…