Tamil Nadu government has pegged destruction caused by north east monsoon at Rs 8,481 crore and chief minister J Jayalalithaa has urged prime minister Narendra Modi to immediately release Rs 2,000 crore for relief work. In a letter
Maharashtra will soon have a housing regulatory authority. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has said that the housing regulator would be established within a month. The housing regulator will be a quasi-judicial body with powers to safeguard the i
Finance minister Arun Jaitley will meet heads of PSU banks today (Monday) to discuss loans, interest rate reduction and jan dhan yojana. The performance review meeting of public sector banks (PSBs) will also take stock of the credit flow to produc
Hinting at bringing in major economic reforms, prime minister Narendra Modi on Saturday called India and ASEAN `natural partners`, whose relationship goes back to `ancient times`. ASEAN is India`s fourth largest trading partner and India is
French president Francois Hollande, who has declared war against Islamic State in the wake of Prais attacks last week, will be the chief guest at India`s 67th Republic Day Parade on January 26 next year. Hollande has accepted prime minister Narend
A week after Paris attacks, the UN Security Council has unanimously approved a strongly-worded French-sponsored resolution calling on all nations to redouble and coordinate action to prevent further attacks by Islamic State terrorists and other ex
Hinting at bringing in major economic reforms, prime minister Narendra Modi on Saturday called India and ASEAN `natural partners`, whose relationship goes back to `ancient times`. ASEAN is India`s fourth largest trading partner and India is
An ambulance meekly blares away as scores and scores of vehicles remain stuck, not able to give way to the needy patient even if they wish too. That is a common sight during the rush hours in cities across India that have mushroomed organically, w
The Supreme Court today stayed the operation of the Delhi High Court order which directed the navy to give permanent commission to all women officers serving the marine force as short service commission officers. The court was told that in the nav
Even as there are mixed reactions to 7th pay commission report, international agency Fitch Ratings said today that a proposed 23.6 percent hike in salaries and pensions for about 10 million current and former government employees could hurt the co
The raja is back in Bihar with a new partner. Today, Nitish Kumar was sworn in as the chief minister of Bihar for the fifth time, with Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rahul Gandhi as partners. After breaking with BJP, Nitish Kumar took on pri
In tech driven world the speed of services matters and the government service delivery is no exception. This delivery of service is linked to performance of each employee. The 7th pay commission, which submitted its report on Thursday evening, twe
Janata Dal (united) veteran Nitish Kumar is all set to take oath as Bihar chief minister. He has become new rallying point for the anti-BJP group. But can Bihar be example for India? Can Nitish thrive under anti-Modi banner? The answer is no.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) chief Raghuram Rajan said on Friday that a drop in public and private investments were the main concerns he had about the country`s economic growth. Speaking in Hong Kong, he said weak capital investment has been a
Government today expressed its inability before the supreme court in formulating the draft Memorandum of Procedure (MOP) for appointment of judges in the higher judiciary. Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, who was yesterday asked by the five-judge c
Mumbai city may soon have underground power sub stations to overcome the challenge of availability of space. While many foreign countries have underground sub stations, in India Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has set up two u
India is world’s biggest democracy but voting average in elections is about 50% to 65% because less than half Indians think that elections are important. But over 80% think that religious freedom is important. Surprisingly for a nation
The wait gets longer, astonishingly longer in the age of nano second tech age. The World Economic Forum believes it will take another 118 years (until 2133) to close the global pay gap between men and women. The progress is so slow
If the dolphins are alive and breeding then the Ganges is not dead. Yet, according to a census undertaken by the Uttar Pradesh forest department and the World Wide Fund for Nature, India, in early October, as many as 1,263 dolphins were found in a
Ten years back a group of visiting Indian women journalists were in for a shock in Brussels. Drooling over the taste of delicious Belgian chocolates that they had tasted and bought from the metro subway store for carrying home, they saw the huge a
