Sixty-nine NGOs have been barred from receiving foreign funds since May 2011, the government told parliament on Tuesday. ...
The CPI-M is set to recommend amendments to the Aadhaar bill, which is listed to be tabled in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, the last day before the budget session goes on over a month-long break....
Trinamool Congress vice president Mukul Roy on Tuesday termed the footage on the sting operation against his party that has sparked off a major political row as a "manufactured video". ...
The Pope during consistory of cardinals on Tuesday announced September 4 as the date for Mother Teresa's canonisation, the media reported. ...
The government will soon provide a single-window clearance for urban development projects and setting up of monuments by citizens and others, Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu said in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. "Earlier for all these, people had to come to Delhi. Now there will be online approval," he said while piloting the Real ...
Visiting Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar on Tuesday met the agitating Madhesi leaders here in connection with their dialogue with the Nepal government. Jaishankar arrived in the capital on Monday night to attend the Saarc Ministerial Meeting in Pokhara, some 200 km west of Kathmandu. Madhesi leader Raj Kishor Yadav said Jaishankar inquired about t...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Uttar Pradesh twice in April to participate in programmes organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), an official said on Tuesday. Modi will take part in an event on April 14 marking the birth anniversary of Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar. A series of programmes and events have been lined up in April that will start on the b...
Lok Sabha members including from the ruling BJP, the CPI-M and the Congress on Tuesday raised matters concerning a "sting operation" against Trinammol Congress members and demanded a house probe into the allegations. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Mohammad Salim of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) said the Lok Sabha...
Myanmar's parliament on Tuesday elected U Htin Kyaw of the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party as the new president, the first civilian to lead the country after over 50 years of military rule. U Htin Kyaw, a 69-year-old academic and long-time aide of NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi, was elected with 360 votes while U Myint Swe from the Union Solid...
A petition was filed in the Delhi High Court on Tuesday seeking action against JNU Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar on a sedition charge for saying that the Indian Army is responsible for rapes of women in Kashmir. Justice Pratibha Rani would hear the case post-lunch on Tuesday. "Indian Army is an integral part of the nation and ...
