In a separate action, the Maharashtra government suspended the officer, Maruti H. Sawant, Director-General, Maharashtra Council of Agricultural Education & Research (MCAER), Agriculture Minister Eknath Khadse said in Mumbai Friday evening....
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday visited Rajasthan where she met rain and hailstorm affected farmers and assured them that she would take up their plight with the state and central governments....
The ghastly accident took place at Bachharwan railway station near Rae Bareli town when the Dehradun-Varanasi Janata Express was proceeding to Varanasi, an official statement said. ...
New Delhi, March 20 : A bill on unearthing black money and punishing those with ill-gotten wealth was tabled in the Lok Sabha on Friday, the last day before parliament goes into its scheduled month-long recess. The Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets (Imposition of New Tax) Bill, 2015, proposes a short window to overseas income tax assessees to declare...
India is likely to put into orbit its fourth regional navigation satellite on March 28, with the country's space agency now in the process of loading the rocket with the satellite, an official said on Thursday. ...
A court here on Thursday extended till March 21 the police custody of two people allegedly involved in the leakage and sale of confidential government documents....
The Congress asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday to "apologise" to farmers and to "withdraw" the land acquisition ordinance, calling it a "sinister attempt" to kill the spirit of the 2013 Land Act brought when the UPA was in power....
At least 10 people were killed in an attack carried out by the Boko Haram militants in a Nigeria-Cameroon border town in Borno state, a security source said Thursday. ...
Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday spoke to Jammu and Kashmir Police chief following a militant attack on a police station in Jammu in which two policemen were killed, official sources here said. ...
DMK president M. Karunanidhi urged the central government on Friday not to go ahead with the land acquisition bill and reconsider it. ...