A parliamentary panel, headed by BJP MP S.S. Ahluwalia, is meeting on Monday to try to reach consensus in sorting out the land acquisition imbroglio which remains unresolved even after a colonial era law was replaced in 2014 by a new law....

"We have taken the decision to change the dress of swayamsevaks. We have decided to replace khakhi shorts with brown coloured full pants," Bhaiyaji Joshi, an RSS leader, told the here on Sunday...
Business tycoon Vijay Mallya said in comments published on Sunday that he was not on the run but was also in no hurry to return to India....

Grammy Award-winning musician John Legend started a Twitter war with business tycoon and US presidental candidate Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr, telling him that his father is "racist". ...
Indian pugilist Vijender Singh dedicated his fourth consecutive victory in professional boxing to the martyrs of Indian armed forces after defeating Hungary's Alexander Horvath at the Liverpool Echo Arena here. ...

The government hopes to enact the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and bankruptcy bills in the second half of the budget session of parliament beginning April 20, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Sunday....

Four days before two ancient Jain and Hindu statues estimated to be worth $450,000 were to be auctioned off, US officials swooped on the international art auction house Christie's here and seized them, according to the Homeland Security Department. ...
Ever since then finance minister Shanmukham Chetty presented India's first budget in 1947, the event has been eagerly awaited as the first big-ticket political event of the year. Consequently it should come as no surprise that even a fortnight after Arun Jaitley presented the budget for 2016-17, commentaries continue as to whether this was fi...
More and more leaders of smaller parties and estranged partners of the ruling UDF are trying to join the Left Democratic Alliance (LDF) ahead of assembly elections in Kerala....
Showers lashed the Art of Living's World Culture Festival on the Yamuna flood plain here for the second consecutive day while union ministers Rajnath Singh and Sushma Swaraj lauded Sri Sri Ravi Shankar for conveying message of Indian spirituality and heritage to the world. ...