The Venezuelan government has urged the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, to intervene against the US trade and financial sanctions which are undermining the South American nation's economy....
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said the non-banking finance company (NBFC) sector crisis has plateaued but not ended yet and her ministry will monitor the emerging situation with the RBI, a day after she announced a slew of measures to address the lending concerns of the NBFCs. ...
BJP President and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday launched the party's membership campaign in Telangana by issuing a membership card to a tribal woman here. Shah had lunch at the residence of Soni Nayak at Ranganayakula Thanda, a tribal hamlet in Mamidipalli village of Ranga Reddy district on the outskirts of ...
In a severe jolt to the 13-month-old coalition government in Karnataka, eight Congress and three Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) legislators on Saturday submitted their resignations in the Assembly Speaker's office. "I came to know from my personal secretary that 11 legislators gave resignation...
Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) working President K.T. Rama Rao on Saturday termed the Union Budget 2019-20 as "disappointing and insipid" from Telangana's perspective. In a series of tweets, Rama Rao criticized the budget saying it completely ignored the state....
Union Women and Child Development, and Textile Minister Smriti Irani on Saturday visited her parliamentary constituency Amethi, where she heard people's problems by organising a 'chaupal' under 'Didi Aapke Dwar' (Sister at your doorstep) programme....
Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale paid a two-day visit to Bhutan to lay the groundwork for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the close strategic neighbour next month. Gokhale, who was in Bhutan on July 4-5, had an audience with King Jigme Khesar ...
In a severe jolt to the year-old coalition government in Karnataka, five Congress and three Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) legislators on Saturday resigned from their respective Assembly segments in the southern state, sources said....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that those criticizing his government's vision of making India a $5 trillion economy were "professional pessimists". ...
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was on Saturday granted bail by a court in connection with a defamation case filed by Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi....
