Youth Congress leader M. Vikram Goud, who was injured in a firing last week, had stage-managed the incident and offered Rs 50 lakh to the gang he had hired to execute the plan, a senior police officer said on Wednesday....
Subdued inflation and demand prompted the RBI on Wednesday to reduce its key lending rate by 25 basis points (bps), which, however, failed to lift the sentiments of the business fraternity who felt a steeper cut would have been better. ...
A day after NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Arvind Panagariya resigned from the post, his colleague Bibek Debroy on Wednesday said while speculations were doing the rounds, he did not know Panagariya was going to quit....
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday urged the Election Commission (EC) to withdraw the provision of NOTA from the ballot papers for the August 8 election to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat....
With students protesting against the JNU administration accusing it of various charges, including one of corruption, the university said a "misinformation campaign" is being run by a "handful of students"....
Britains 96-year-old Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, will carry out his final solo public engagement on Wednesday before he retires from royal duties....
The Asia Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC) sponsored by India and Japan is welcome -- as long as it does not try to trip China's Belt and Road initiative, a Chinese newspaper said on Wednesday. Announced by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May, the AAGC, essentially a maritime corridor, was seen by some as a counterbalance to the Belt an...
The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed legislation to extend the Goods and Services Tax (GST) to Jammu and Kashmir, making it part of the "one nation, one tax" regime. The House passed the the Central Goods and Services Tax (Extension to Jammu and Kashmir), Bill, 2017 and the Integrated Goods and Services Tax (Extension to Jammu and Kashmir), Bill, 2017 aft...
Cisco Executive Chairman John Chambers says it was wrong to replace American workers by bring in software professionals from abroad, cautioning "we have to be careful not to misstep" when it comes to H-1B visa. "You cannot go in and take a whole bunch of H1-B visas and displace American workers because you can do it at lower cost...
India has not pulled out its troops in Doklam where they are locked in a stand off with the Chinese army for nearly two months, government sources said on Wednesday, rebuffing a claim by China that fewer Indian troops were stationed in the area in Sikkim sector. "Status quo continues, there has been no pullout," government sources said. Ch...
