NEW DELHI – In this teeming capital city of more than 20 million people, a worsening drought is amplifying the vast inequality between India’s rich and poor. The politicians, civil servants and corporate lobbyists who live in substantial houses and apartments in central Delhi pay very little to […]
BENGALURU – India’s government will turn on the fiscal taps in the federal budget on Friday and revise its borrowing target slightly higher for this year and next, prompted by a slowing economy and weak jobs growth, a Reuters poll of economists showed. After winning a second term […]
every citizen has to abide by the law and the law never confers the power on a citizen to become the law unto himself or take law into his hands Guidelines of Supreme Court laid in case tiled as ” Tehseen S. Poonawalla …Petitioner(s) Versus Union of India […]
New Delhi, Jun 19: Rajasthan MP Om Birla was on Wednesday chosen as speaker of the Lok Sabha. The motion to choose Birla as the speaker was moved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is also Leader of the House, and passed by a voice vote “That Shri Om […]
Mumbai, Jun 12: Mumbai and some neighbouring coastal areas of Maharashtra witnessed a windy Wednesday morning as cyclone ‘Vayu’ turned into a “very severe cyclonic storm”, the weather department said. As the cyclone continued to progress towards Saurashtra and Kutch regions of neighbouring Gujarat, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) […]
India has suspended trade across its disputed Kashmir border with Pakistan, alleging that weapons and drugs are being smuggled across the route, as tensions simmer between the nuclear-armed neighbours. Kashmir has been on edge since a February suicide attack that killed 40 Indian paramilitaries and brought the two […]
New Delhi : India is expected to be among the top-10 entertainment and media markets globally by 2021 in terms of absolute numbers, according to a joint study by ASSOCHAM-PwC. The country’s per capita media and entertainment spending is likely to be capped at USD 32 or Rs 2,080 […]
NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD – India and Pakistan are quarrelling over reports of an alleged kidnapping and religious conversion of two Hindu girls in mostly Muslim Pakistan last week. The spat began on Sunday when India’s Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted that she had asked the country’s high commissioner in […]
NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD – The sparring between India and Pakistan last month threatened to spiral out of control and only interventions by U.S. officials, including National Security Advisor John Bolton, headed off a bigger conflict, five sources familiar with the events said. At one stage, India threatened to fire […]
Beijing, Mar 8: India and Pakistan should quickly turn the page after the Pulwama terror attack, meet each other halfway and transform the present crisis into an opportunity for a long term and fundamental improvement in their bilateral relations, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday. He […]
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