An estimated 47 lakh serving central government employees and 52 lakh pensioners, including defence personnel, on Thursday had reasons to cheer with the 7th Pay Commission recommending a 16-percent salary hike....
The CBI on Thursday evening arrested former media tycoon Peter Mukerjea in connection with the murder of his step-daughter Sheena Bora....
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday dared the government to jail him if he had done any wrong, saying the RSS and BJP had been throwing muck at his family for years....
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday said Indira Gandhi taught the nation to stay united and people must follow that path....
More than a dozen Goan Sahitya Akademi award winning writers who had threatened to agitate during the IFFI which begins in Goa on Friday have decided not to go ahead with their protests, claiming the issue had become politicized....
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked its collegium to go ahead with the appointments of judges to the high courts and the apex court which have been put on hold ever since government notification setting up the NJAC was challenged. ...
The growing China-Pakistan ties are not against any other country and the latter has been simultaneously promoting relations with all major regional and world powers, Pakistan's adviser on foreign affairs, Sartaj Aziz has said....
Key Indian equity indices surged on Thursday as investor mood was upbeat over some key reform-oriented decisions taken by the government, as also on account of some fresh positions, following the profit-taking the day before. ...
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RBI employees will go on a day's mass casual leave on Thursday to protest the government's move to relieve the central bank of some of its vital operations "in the name of the draft financial code and legislative reforms". ...
