The budget session of parliament will begin on February 23 with President Pranab Mukherjee addressing a joint sitting of the two houses -- the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, it was announced on Thursday. The rail budget will be presented on February 25 and the economic survey report released the next day. The general budget will be presented o...
A Brazilian judge has banned the publication of Adolf Hitler's autobiography 'Mein Kampf' (My Struggle), ruling that it "incites intolerant practices" of social and religious groups against the Jews. Alberto Salomao Junior, judge from Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice, on Wednesday said in the ruling that the book, instigating racism and d...
A sessions court on Thursday awarded death to two collegians guilty of kidnapping and killing an eight-year old schoolboy on September 1, 2014 here. The sessions court's principal judge, Kishore K. Sonawane, pronounced the death verdict against Rajesh D. Davare (19) and his friend Arvind A. Singh (23) amidst a charged atmosphere outside the c...
Celebrations at Goa's popular carnival festival will pack an additional punch this year with the four-day event coinciding with a state government organised wine festival. According to the tourism authorities here, the wine festival will be one of Asia's biggest wine and lifestyle events. Carnival celebrations will begin from February 6 wit...
The CPI-M on Thursday said a cooperative-sector Kerala Bank will be established if the party is voted to power in the assembly polls later this year. ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hoped for better trade and investment between India and Hong Kong. ...
The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to entertain a plea seeking direction to three civic bodies in the capital to take steps to resolve the strike by their employees that has resulted garbage piling up in the city....
Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday moved the Supreme Court against the summons issued to them by a court here in the National Herald case filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy....
Five people suspected of assaulting a Tanzanian woman were arrested early on Thursday, Police Commissioner N.S. Megharik said. ...
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Major General Jai Shankar Menon to head the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), which monitors the Syria-Israel ceasefire in the Golan Heights....
