New Delhi: India and Pakistan will sign the agreement on Kartarpur corridor on Thursday, the media said on Tuesday. The agreement aims at ensuring visa-free travel for Indian pilgrims to Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan through a border corridor.
Crime in India 2017, the annual crime report which was published by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) after a delay of two years, shows a rise in crimes against people from scheduled caste (SC) communities across the country.
New Delhi: The SC Tuesday transferred all cases related to the linkage of social media profiles with Aadhaar pending in different high courts to itself. Facebook and WhatsApp sought the transfer of these cases to the top court so that they could have a bearing on national security.
New Delhi: Senior IAS officer Sanjeev Nandan Sahai was appointed the new power secretary replacing Subhash Chander Garg, who had sought voluntary retirement after being shunted out from the post of finance secretary soon after the budget was passed by Parliament.
The Supreme court on Tuesday granted bail to former Union minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media case lodged by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Jaipur: Two Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leaders who alleged corruption in ticket allocation in the 2018 Rajasthan Assembly polls were garlanded with shoes, their faces blackened and paraded outside the party office on Tuesday (October 22) by the party workers....
New Delhi: Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee on Tuesday (October 22) expressed concerns about the banking sector's crisis in India and called for aggressive changes to handle the situation.
"There is a need to bring in important and aggressive changes to deal ...
A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) was killed on Tuesday (October 22) as Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked mortar shelling and small arms fire along the Line of Control (LoC) in J&K’s Rajouri and Poonch districts. According to sources, the...
The conditions in which Sivkasi cracker workers toil are unimaginable. In 10x10 sqft rooms, men and women work together — from dawn to dusk, in sickness and health, in life and death to produce an array of firecrackers that illuminate the Diwali skies across India. The townscape is dotted with numerous fireworks factories — over 2,000, in addition to around 1,000 illegal units, employing an estimated four lakh people. Click here to know the working conditions of Sivakasi cracker workers.
New Delhi: Nandan Nilekani, Chairman of Infosys said on Tuesday that the company's audit committee will conduct an independent investigation on a whistleblower's allegations about CEO Salil Parekh and CFO Nilanjan Roy.
Another whistleblower has surfaced at Infosys and this time has made far more serious allegations against the IT services’ giant, ranging from how certain measures were taken to boost profits to how critical information is hidden from the audito...
Washington: India is planning to prepare a blueprint for international companies that are looking beyond China to make India as their preferred investment destination. Nirmala Sitharaman said that industry leaders, who are mulling to get their businesses out of China, are “considering India as the pitch”.
Two-wheeler exports rose by over 4% in the April-September period of the current fiscal, with Bajaj Auto leading the segment by shipping over 9 lakh units to various markets, including Africa and Latin America, as per latest data by industry bod...
Washington: India on Saturday (October 19) expressed its disappointment over the lack of support to increase the quota structure of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
IMF quotas, which are the primary source of IMF funds, determine voting shares. Quo...
Washington: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday (October 19) backed India's recent decision to bring down corporate income tax and said that it has a positive impact on investment.
"The monetary policy stimulus and the announced corporate inc...
Acting on a plea for interim protective measures for insuring around 15 lakh people whose money is blocked in the scam-hit Punjab & Maharashtra Co-operative (PMC) Bank, the Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to an urgent hearing.
The matte...
New York: Hitting back at noted economist and former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan, for his remarks that Modi's first term didn't do well on economy, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, on Tuesday (October 15), alleged that th...
Chennai/Ranchi: South African skipper Faf du Plessis on Tuesday (October 22) after facing a ruthless defeat from a dominating Indian side rued loss of their players to county cricket under the Kolpak deal and said: the team will go back with 'mental scars'.
Chennai/Turin: The 34-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo reassured Juventus supporters and his legions of fans worldwide that he's not ready for retirement yet and said: "age is just a number".
Chennai/Dhaka: Former Bangladesh cricket chief on Tuesday (October 22) added another angle to the ongoing strike by Bangladesh cricketers saying that widespread match-fixing in the country has deepened the crisis for players over wages.
Chennai/Ranchi: India captain Virat Kohli feels that time has come for the BCCI to zero in on five permanent Test centres for future home series, similar to the English and Australian model when top teams tour those countries.
Chennai/Ranchi: Indian skipper Virat Kohli on Tuesday (October 22) after clinching the team's maiden Test series sweep against South Africa spoke about former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, a notable absentee from the series.
Ottawa: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party held onto power in a nail-biter of a Canadian general election on Monday (October 21) but as a weakened minority government.
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Washington: The Trump administration on Tuesday (October 22) said while it supports India's development agenda behind the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status under Article 370, it...
Karachi: Lashing out at the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government in Pakistan, main opposition leader Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said that Prime Minister Imran Khan is not capable of completi...
London: The plans of an anti-India march, scheduled in London on Diwali next Sunday over the issue of Kashmir, was met with strict opposition from city Mayor Sadiq Khan, who said that the protest rally would deepen divisions in the UK capital.
Chennai/New Delhi: According to an FSSAI study, 37.7 percent of processed milk samples, including major brands, have failed to meet the prescribed quality norm.
