Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said that India now needs to move to a lower level of taxation to be globally competitive. "What you need is lower level of taxation, to provide services more competitive in nature. Competition is not domestic, it is global. This is one important change you will witness while you will be in service," Jaitley...
Hundreds of people living in Tamil Nadu's coastal districts on Monday paid homage to those who were swallowed by the 2004 tsunami on this day. Silent rallies were held in tsunami affected areas as people offered milk and flowers to the sea for the dead. In 2004, giant waves swallowed thousands of people in Tamil Nadu's coastal areas li...
Night temperatures across Jammu and Kashmir again dropped several notches on Monday after improving the previous day due to cloud cover. "Cold, dry weather with foggy conditions in the mornings is expected to continue in the state during the next 24 hours," said an official of the MET department. He said after Sunday's light rain and snowfall, the night temperat...
Typhoon Nock-Ten, which made landfall in the Philippines on Sunday, lost intensity as it moved through the archipelago, weather authorities said on Monday. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services reported that the typhoon, known as Nina in the Philippines, weakened on its way to the provinces of Batangas and Cav...
The automated control systems for two nuclear power plants in Tamil Nadu's Kudankulam will start arriving to India from Russia 2018 onwards, the Russian State Nuclear Corporation (Rosatom) said. Automated control systems are key components needed to ensure the safe operation of the nuclear power plant. They include a range of sp...
A South Korean special prosecutor's team on Monday raided former President Park Geun-hye's chief of staff's home to collect evidence of his illegal involvement in a ministry's personnel management. The raid was part of the investigation into a scandal that had led to the Park's impeachment earlier in December, Xinhua news agency reported. ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded the US ambassador to provide "clarifications" after Washington abstained from a UN vote on the illegitimacy of the West Bank settlements....
At least 40 pilgrims were injured, three of them seriously, in a stampede at the Sabarimala temple on Sunday night after a barricade gave way in the huge rush, authorities said....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said he was also "feeling the pain" demonetisation has caused to people across the country but defended the move to curb corruption and black money in India....
Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Sunday said Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has been regretting his decision to leave the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance....
