A day after presenting the union budget for 2016-17, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said efforts are necessary to sustain growth in a challenging global economic environment....
Expectations of a rate cut, coupled with budgetary announcements and positive Asian cues, buoyed the Indian equity markets on Tuesday. ...
The central government on Tuesday clarified that only that portion of the interest accrued on Employees Provident Fund (EPF) contributions made after April 1 will be taxed at 60 percent while the principal will continue to remain tax exempt....
The Supreme Court will hear a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking suo motu contempt action against former home minister P. Chidambaram for perjury and misleading the apex court and the Gujarat High Court on alleged LeT links of Ishrat Jahan. ...
Global credit rating agencies -- Moody's Investors Service (Moody's) and Fitch Ratings -- termed India's fiscal budget for 2016-17 as credit positive for sovereign rating, but pointed out certain uncertainties. "The budget is modestly credit positive for the sovereign, since it indicates a continued commitment to gradual fiscal co...
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said on Tuesday that Pakistan has decided to send a team to India to help investigate the terror attack on an air force base at Pathankot. He also said the details of the proposed visit are being chalked out. "India has handed over all the evidences collected to Pakistan in relation to Pathankot attac...
New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to attend the first World Sufi Forum (WSF) - an event that will highlight India as the "global centre for moderate" Islam - to be held here this month, organisers said. Over 200 renowned Sufi scholars from 20 countries, including Pakistan, will attend the event. Muslims constitute the lar...
Non-state actors from Pakistan were involved in the Pathankot terror attack but they cannot function smoothly without support from the state, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Tuesday in the Rajya Sabha. Replying to supplementary questions in the upper house, the minister was asked by Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut whether the P...
AIADMK members on Tuesday created a ruckus in the Rajya Sabha demanding action against former finance minister P. Chidambaram's son Karti Chidambaram, forcing four adjournments in the pre-lunch sitting. AIADMK members trooped near the chairman's podium soon after the house met at 11 a.m., raising slogans and demanding action. Slogans like "arrest ...
The Supreme Court on Monday said that it could not decriminalise a penal provision to punish hate speech as the government opposed BJP leader Subramanian Swamy's plea challenging constitutional validity of two sections of the Indian Penal Code providing for curbing hate speech and activities prejudicial to the maintenance of ...
