Giving concrete shape to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's budget announcement last month on recovering black money stashed away abroad, the cabinet-approved anti-black money law provides a short window to income tax assessees to declare assets, pay tax and penalty and avoid imprisonment....
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has told social activist Anna Hazare that she agrees with him the land bill brought by the Narendra Modi government was not in the interest of farmers and her party will continue its fight against it....
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday announced she would "entrust the investigation" of the gang rape of a 71-year-old nun in West Bengal's Nadia district to the CBI given its "seriousness" and "sensitivity"....
The ban on the telecast of controversial BBC documentary "India's Daughter" on the December 16, 2012, gang rape will continue, the Delhi High Court ordered on Wednesday and asked the central government to place before it the advisory issued by it to prohibit exhibition of the documentary. ...
Punjab Finance Minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa on Wednesday said no new taxes are being imposed in the state's budget for 2015-16....
A team of Australian researchers are a step closer to finding a vaccine to prevent malaria, after discovering patterns in the human immune system that help fight the disease in its early stages. ...
Haji Sardar Mohmand, president of the Peshawar chapter of Pakistan's ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), was shot dead on Wednesday. ...
The Haryana government is examining if any illegality was done in allowing the lease of five acres of prime land to the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust (RGCT) in Gurgaon by the state's previous Congress government of then chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda....
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of India on Wednesday demanded "visible" action and requested West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to hasten arrests of those who gang raped a 71-year-old nun in West Bengal's Nadia district....
Describing Kashmiris as stakeholders in the Kashmir issue, Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit on Wednesday dismissed as a "non-issue" his invitation to Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Pakistan Day celebrations in New Delhi. ...