Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday called for fine tuning India's development model for delivering progress at the grassroots and said growth of 115 "aspirational districts" will bring a rapid transformation in country's ranking in the Human Development Index (HDI). Inaugurating the National Legislators Conference in the Central Hall of...
The Congress on Saturday announced its support for the candidature of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) nominee Bhim Rao Ambedkar for the Rajya Seat from Uttar Pradesh, polling for which will be held on March 23. The decision was announced by the leader of the Congress legislature party in the state assembly, Ajay Kumar 'Lallu', after a meeting with the...
On expected lines, the parliamentary board of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) that met here on Saturday gave its nod to M.P. Veerendra Kumar to file his nomination papers for the vacant Rajya Sabha seat from Kerala. The 80-year-old media baron will file his nominations on March 12 and the elections will be held in the Kerala assembly on March ...
On the last day of campaigning, the CPI-M-led Left Front on Saturday withdrew its candidate from the Charilam assembly constituency claiming "extremely terrible situation" in the tribal dominated areas of Tripura "due to massive reign of terror" by the BJP. The move comes after the poll authorities "remained silent" over the Left's request for p...
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council on Saturday finalised April 1, 2018 for the nationwide mandatory rollout of inter-state e-Way Bill, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said here. "Intra-state e-Way Bill will be rolled out in phased manner with four groups of states. Each group will come under it every week after April 1 and ef...
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday met business executives of Indian origin in Malaysia and said he "valued actionable solutions over rhetoric". He also assured them that "their interests will be suitably addressed in his party's manifesto". Gandhi met the business executives of the Malaysia India Business Council, Asean India Busines...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi received French President Emmanuel Macron at Hyderabad House here on Saturday ahead of bilateral talks between India and France. "Another chapter in the glorious book of our friendship! PM @narendramodi welcomes President of France, @EmmanuelMacron at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi ahead of the bilateral talks," Externa...
Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay on Saturday urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to resolve the issue of Tibet through dialogue. He also demanded a Unesco fact-finding mission to visit the holiest Jokhang shrine in Lhasa in Tibet and investigate a fire incident there that destroyed hundreds of Tibetan artefactd a few weeks back. "A...
A paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper committed suicide on Saturday in Srinagar. This is the third consecutive sucide by security men in three days. Constable Sukhdev of the 79 Battalion of CRPF committed suicide in the high security Sonwar area, police sources said. "The jawan shot and killed himself with his service rifle. An FIR...
On her first visit to her home state Kerala after the Supreme Court upheld her marriage with Shafin Jahan, Hadiya on Saturday said "all this happened as I embraced Islam". "The Constitution gives all the freedom to choose their religion, which is a fundamental right of every citizen and all this happened because I embraced Islam," said Hadiya wh...
