The Congress's fight in the assembly elections in Assam will be against the unfair treatment the state has received at the hands of the central government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said here on Friday....
The Congress's fight in the assembly elections in Assam will be against the unfair treatment the state has received at the hands of the central government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said here on Friday....
The Lok Sabha on Friday passed the Aadhaar bill to give legal teeth to the government in ensuring its subsidies and services reach the intended beneficiaries directly, thereby going beyond the scheme's current mandate of merely assigning a unique identity to residents. ...
The National Green Tribunal on Friday gave three weeks to Art of Living (AoL) to pay environmental compensation of Rs.5 crore for holding World Culture Festival on the Yamuna floodplains in Delhi. ...
The National Green Tribunal on Friday gave three weeks to Art of Living (AoL) to pay environmental compensation of Rs.5 crore for holding World Culture Festival on the Yamuna floodplains in Delhi. The NGT held a hearing on Friday over implementation of its Wednesday's order. AoL told the tribunal that it will abide by the ruling and sought four week...
Myanmar parliament's two houses on Friday elected U Htin Kyaw and U Henry Van Htee Yu of the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) as two of three vice presidents to be nominated for a presidential race after qualification scrutiny. ...
In what could herald a new era to treat aggressive forms of breast cancer, a combination of two targeted drugs shrunk cancerous tumours and even made those disappear within 11 days in a clinical trial. Nearly a quarter of women with “HER2 positive†breast cancer who were treated with a combination of the t...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said 97 percent adult Indians now have an Aadhaar card and that the bill introduced by him in the Lok Sabha will go a long way in ensuring government subsidies and services directly reach the beneficiaries in entirety. Initiating a debate on the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Ben...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has ordered a probe into allegations of irregularities committed by public, private and foreign banks to claim achievements of targets in lending to farmers and the agro-sector, an official said on Friday. The probe has been ordered following a detailed memorandum listing the alleged frauds, submitted by the...
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday urged Indians abroad not to be misled by callers claiming to speak on behalf of her ministry. ...