The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has made refunds of a record total of Rs.65,000 crore so far in the current financial year, the government said on Saturday....
Indian track and field athlete O.P. Jaisha says she has been dreaming of an Olympic medal since her childhood and would not leave any stone unturned to grab it at the Rio Games later this year....
It's 2016 and a native of Hyderabad, Syed Akbaruddin, is India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. But it is still 1948 for an amnesiac Pakistan. Gaining no traction on internationalising the Kashmir issue, Islamabad is continuing to rake up before the Security Council the accession of the Hyderabad nizamdom to independen...
Whenever assembly elections are round the corner in Punjab, political fireworks are expected. This time is a little different with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), a relatively new entrant in Punjab's political space, firing up the scene and promising to take the state's politics on a new trajectory....
The apex bank's efforts to arrest the sliding rupee value, coupled with massive outflows of foreign funds from equity and bond markets depletes India's foreign exchange reserves (Forex) kitty by $1.43 billion, experts said on Saturday....
At least 126 hostages were freed and three attackers killed on Saturday as security operations at the Splendid Hotel in Burkina Faso's capital ended, a senior official said....
Almost 30 years after late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi visited Dharavi, once ranked as Asia's biggest slum, his son and Congress vice president took out a padayatra (walk) in the same areas here on Saturday....
A court hearing the now infamous 'bar scam' case here on Saturday asked the vigilance probe team to hand over all the case documents to it....
Describing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent conversation with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif as a "welcome sign" the US says it wants the two countries to continue to have a dialogue to fight terrorism. "We want them to continue to have a dialogue and to continue to look for ways to cooperate against a common threat," US State Department...
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh for what he termed as their "rigid thinking" which hampers creativity and start-ups in the country. Interacting with B-school students of the prestigious Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) here, Gandhi said the BJP...
