The government is not considering extending the December 30 deadline for depositing the demonetised Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, whose demonetisation was announced on Novemeber 8, Parliament was informed on Tuesday....
Reacting to an RTI revelation that the Centre has spent over Rs 1,100 crore in advertisements featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi, opposition parties on Tuesday said the government machinery is busy hiding its failures....
Suicide bombers armed with guns and grenades stormed a military artillery base near Jammu on Tuesday, triggering a fierce pre-dawn gunfight that left three soldiers and four attackers dead, officials said. Three more militants died in another shootout with security forces near the International Border with Pakistan here....
Union Minister of State for Finance Santosh Gangwar on Tuesday said that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was focussing all efforts to bridge the shortfall of the new Rs 500 currency notes....
Proceedings in the Rajya Sabha were repeatedly disrupted on Tuesday and the house eventually adjourned for the day as the opposition insisted on the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging that the upper house of parliament was sought to be bypassed. ...
The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed by a voice vote a bill to amend the income tax laws to facilitate levy of 60 per cent tax on undisclosed income or investment or cash credit deposited in banks after the November 8 demonetisation....
The Congress on Tuesday accused the Narendra Modi government of "bulldozing bills" in the Lok Sabha on the strength of their numbers, and called the situation an "undeclared emergency". ...
Congress President Sonia Gandhi has been admitted to the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) here after she developed fever, a senior hospital official said on Tuesday....
In his first remarks after assuming charge as the chief of Pakistan's army, General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Tuesday said that the current tensions on the border with India will ease soon. ...
A plane carrying Brazil's Chapecoense football team crashed in Colombia and as many as 75 of the 81 persons on board were feared dead, media reported on Tuesday....
