In a measure of relief to the fertiliser industry, a cabinet panel on Wednesday approved a special banking arrangement for a loan of Rs.7,000 crore for payment of outstanding subsidy to fertiliser firms for 2014-15. ...
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said the state cabinet has decided to revise the minimum wage of construction workers in the capital. ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the lynching of a Muslim in Dadri and the cancellation of Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali's concert in Mumbai were both "saddening and undesirable"....
The brutal killing of a man in Bisada village in Dadri in Uttar Pradesh, not far from the Indian capital, on suspicion that he consumed beef after killing a cow was more than a murder. It was an attack on one of our most cherished values, protected by the constitution: secularism. It was an assault on the very tenets of Indianness, a value we profes...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "silence" along with the silence of institutions like the Sahitya Akademi is permitting a new "degree of thuggish violence" in India, said celebrated author Salman Rushdie. ...
Amid the growing number of litterateurs giving up their literary awards over growing intolerance and attempts to muzzle freedom of speech and expression, eminent Punjabi writer Dalip Kaur Tiwana on Tuesday announced she will return the Padma Shri award conferred on her....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unveil a statue of late former president Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on Thursday to mark his 84th birth anniversary....
Six people were arrested here on Tuesday in a joint operation by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with an ongoing probe into a forex case involving Bank of Baroda, ED officials said. ...
The Shiv Sena on Tuesday patted its activists who blackened senior journalist Sudheendra Kulkarni's face for hosting a book launch of Pakistan's former foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri but a party leader said the Sena-BJP alliance was unlikely to snap. ...
With eminent authors returning Sahitya Akademi awards to protest rising intolerance, union minister Bandaru Dattatreya said it was their individual right and intellectuals were free to act as per their wish in a democracy...