The National Green Tribunal on Friday gave three weeks to Art of Living (AoL) to pay environmental compensation of Rs.5 crore for holding World Culture Festival on the Yamuna floodplains in Delhi. The NGT held a hearing on Friday over implementation of its Wednesday's order. AoL told the tribunal that it will abide by the ruling and sought four week...
Myanmar parliament's two houses on Friday elected U Htin Kyaw and U Henry Van Htee Yu of the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) as two of three vice presidents to be nominated for a presidential race after qualification scrutiny. ...
In what could herald a new era to treat aggressive forms of breast cancer, a combination of two targeted drugs shrunk cancerous tumours and even made those disappear within 11 days in a clinical trial. Nearly a quarter of women with “HER2 positive†breast cancer who were treated with a combination of the t...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said 97 percent adult Indians now have an Aadhaar card and that the bill introduced by him in the Lok Sabha will go a long way in ensuring government subsidies and services directly reach the beneficiaries in entirety. Initiating a debate on the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Ben...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has ordered a probe into allegations of irregularities committed by public, private and foreign banks to claim achievements of targets in lending to farmers and the agro-sector, an official said on Friday. The probe has been ordered following a detailed memorandum listing the alleged frauds, submitted by the...
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday urged Indians abroad not to be misled by callers claiming to speak on behalf of her ministry. ...
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking to quash criminal case against Gujarat Police personnel involved in Ishrat Jahan shootout case in view of Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Headley's statement....
Member of Parliament Vijay Mallya on Friday said that he did not abscond from India and has full faith in the country's judicial system. ...
Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) President Kanhaiya Kumar was on Thursday roughed up by a man on the university campus who allegedly wanted to teach him a lesson for raising "anti-india slogans"....
Even as the government on Thursday assured that "every possible action will be taken" against beleaguered liquor baron Vijay Mallya, the Congress hit out at the Centre asking "how did it allow Mallya to leave the country". ...
