Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to personally intervene to ensure best medical treatment and security to an Indian housemaid allegedly attacked by her employer in Saudi Arabia....
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A Eurozone stimulus package and lowered chances of a US rate hike, coupled with healthy quarterly results from India Inc., propelled the key bellwether indices of Indian equities to gain over 0.60 percent in the just-concluded weekly trade....
BJP president Amit Shah has said that the central government would spend the entire proceeds from offshore seizure of black money on welfare programmes for the poor and there was no question of transferring Rs.15 lakh into each citizen's bank account. ...
Maldivian Vice President Ahmed Adheeb Abdul Ghafoor was arrested on Saturday after he was charged with "high treason" over his involvement in a blast on a speedboat carrying President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom last month. ...
Suicides by farmers are continuing in Odisha as the deadly cocktail of debt and drought claimed three more lives on Saturday. ...
Communal tension was reported in Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh when some Hindu groups took to the streets on Saturday after some posters and banners of Bhagwati Jagran were found ripped off the walls in a locality. ...
The defence ministry has approved an Indian Air Force proposal to induct women as fighter pilots, and the first batch would be commissioned in the IAF in June 2016, an official said....
A day after Sahitya Akademi condemned the killing of rationalist M.M. Kalburgi and assured some action would be taken, many writers said that they are glad the institution had broken its long silence on the issue...
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday paid obeisance at the Harmandir Sahib, popularly known as the Golden Temple, here and said "no one could live in peace after insulting holy scriptures"...