New Delhi/ Bhubaneshwar, February 19: The coal ministry is taking back 31 coal blocks allocated to private firms including the Tata group and Jindal Steel and Power over delays in developing them, jeopardising
NEW DELHI: Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicles, a part of the Mahindra Group, today slashed the price of its electric car e2o by up to Rs 1.7 lakh by introducing a scheme under which a consumer pays a rental fee fo
Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) party president K. Chandrashekar Rao shows a thumbs up sign to supporters after the Indian parliament’s lower house passed the bill for the creation of new state called
New Delhi, February 18 (IANS): Live telecast of the Lok Sabha proceedings was Tuesday disrupted soon after the house started discussing the bill to create a separate Telangana state. An official said the disrup
NEW Delhi, February 18 (PTI): Seemandhra MP L Rajagopal, who had created a storm by splashing pepper spray in Lok Sabha, on Tuesday resigned from Parliament and announced quitting politics, saying he was “
NEW DELHI: There may be good news for those of you planning to buy airconditioners and refrigerators this summer as the finance minister proposed a 2% cut in excise duty for a range of consumer durable products
New Delhi, February 17 (IANS): Finance Minister P. Chidambaram Monday unveiled a 10-point agenda that would help make India the third largest economy by 2043 only behind the US and China.While presenting the in
The following are the consolidated highlights of the interim budget for 2014-15 presented in the Lok Sabha by Finance Minister P. Chiddambaram on Monday:* No change in income tax rates*
Panaji, February 17 (IANS): Capping a two-and-half-month-long investigation, the Goa crime branch Monday formally charged Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal with raping a junior colleague. Tejpal was also cha
NEW DELHI, February 17 (PTI): Amid its modernization drive, the defence ministry was on Monday allocated Rs 2,24,000 crore in the interim budget, marking a 10 per cent increase over the last budget.The allocati
New Delhi, February 17 (IANS): President Pranab Mukherjee has imposed President’s rule in Delhi and accepted the Arvind Kejriwal government’s resignation, authorities said Monday. “The Preside
New Delhi, February 17 (IANS): Perceived as anti-industry, former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Monday said his Aam Aadmi Party is actually against crony capitalism. “We are not against capitalism,
NEW DELHI, February 17 (PTI): Launching a fresh protest against bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, YSR Congress leader Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday accused Sonia Gandhi of dividing the state for political gains.Sitt
New Delhi, February 17 (IANS): Assuring activists that the government will try its best to get anti-graft and social welfare bills passed during the current session of parliament, Congress vice president Rahul
Mumbai: India’s largest cellular carrier, Bharti Airtel Ltd, will buy small mobile operator Loop Mobile for about Rs.300 crore, two sources said, the first merger in six years in an industry long seen as
BANGALORE, February 16 (TNN): They are 13 of the 14 children of Shankaranarayana Manja from Kargal in Shimoga, and, with a collective age of over 880 years, they are now staking their claim to be the oldest fam
Indian Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, in white shirt, pose for photographs while giving final touches to the interim budget in New Delhi, India on February 16. The budget for 2014-15 will be presented on Mond
Tumkur, February 16 (PTI): In a veiled attack on BJP and RSS, Rahul Gandhi today said the opposition does not respect women and their ‘ideological sangathan’ has no place for them. “Their ideo
New Delhi, February 16 (PTI): CBI has started fresh questioning of the cousins of former IAF chief SP Tyagi in the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP helicopter deal in light of claims by alleged middleman Guid
New Delhi, February 16 (IANS): Medha Patkar, Anjali Damania, Yogendra Yadav, Meera Sanyal and Kumar Vishwas are among 20 people who feature in the first list of the Aam Aadmi Party’s candidates for the Lo