Kolkata Mayor Sovan Chatterjee, former Indian cricketer Laxmi Ratan Shukla, retired IPS officers Abani Joardar and James Kujur and singer Indranil Sen will be among the new faces in West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's new council of ministers to be sworn in on Friday....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said his government will soon take a decision to extend the retirement age of government doctors to 65 years....
The VHP on Thursday accused the Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh of polarising people on communal lines by creating "unnecessary controversy" over a Bajrang Dal training camp in Ayodhya....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said in the two years in office his government has made policy changes to curb corruption and opened up more of the economy to foreign investment while filling gaps in rural infrastructure....
The Indian embassy in Kinshasa, Congo, has urged all Indian nationals to "keep a low profile" for the next couple of days after some shops belonging to Indians were attacked and a few Indians injured, apparently in retaliation to the killing of a Congolese national in New Delhi last week....
Within hours of taking charge as the state's chief minister, the veteran Communist leader has etched the stamp of his authority on the government, giving plum cabinet berths to his chosen ones, and keeping the Home and Vigilance portfolios with himself. ...
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the second Italian marine, Salvatore Girone, under probe for the shooting of two Indian fishermen, return home till international arbitration goes on in the case that has soured bilateral ties between the two countries....
Argentine Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra has shaken up the race for the new UN secretary general with her late entry that makes her the 10th candidate and the fifth woman in an election tipped to favor a female. Malcorra, who put in her bid Monday about a month after the nine others had made their pitches to the General Assembly, is like...
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said that international pressure must be put on Pakistan to act against underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. "International pressure should be put on Pakistan to act against underworld don Dawood Ibrahim," Rajnath Singh said in an interview to a TV channel here marking two years of the Na...
As the government fine-tunes tax regime with countries it has the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) with, India Inc. has asked the Income Tax department to ensure that Indian firms are not subjected to double taxation. “Difference in accounting practices followed by different countries would lead to a double taxation...
