He was the single-window counter for all builders, big-time contractors and land sharks operating in Noida, Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway areas. He was the de-facto broker-cum-commission agent of three land-rich authorities of the national c
A Chinese daily has said that "Modi`s plan of making `Digital India` will be just empty talk. From this perspective, India is not even close to where China was five years ago," it said. Commenting on the New York Times report that
Prime minister Narendra Modi today did not mince his words and launched a direct attack on Lalu Prasad Yadav in his election rallies in Bihar. “ I`m amazed at Lalu Ji. His dialogues in 1990s and those now are the same. No new ideas.” M
Nepal today registered ‘first amendment bill’ of the Constitution at Parliament Secretariat, which seeks to address the two major demands of Madhesis and indigenous communities. Will this mean advantage BJP in Bihar elec
In an evaluation carried out for 30 states over the last few months, Maharashtra has been ranked number one in this year`s survey on for tourism, travel and leisure. The state`s rank is due to a strong economy, good infrastructure,
Elections always highly competitive in India but the manner in which West Bengal changed its election commissioner raises many questions. On Wednesday, Alapan Bandyopadhyay cut short his official tour of Bhutan with chief minister Mamata Banerjee
The usage of Aadhaar by government and private agencies will come to a standstill and many projects will be affected by the refusal of the supreme court on Wednesday to modify its August 11 order. Many agencies, which had begun, lin
The Arvind Kejriwal government has invited Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali to perform in the national capital after his concert in Mumbai was cancelled due to Shiv Sena protests, saying "music has no boundaries". Delhi Culture Minister Kapil
Following announcements by writer Nayantara Sehgal and poet Ashok Vajpeyi to return their Sahitya Akademi awards, the literary body`s president said authors should "adopt a different way to protest" and not politicise the autonomous body
The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has invited applications for the post of chairman and managing director (CMD) at state-owned Power Finance Corp. Ltd (PFC). The company’s current head M.K. Goel will retire in September next year
NHPC Ltd. has extended the deadline for bids to construct civil works of the powerhouse complex of the 2,000-MW Subansiri Lower hydroelectric project on the Subansiri River in India`s Arunachal Pradesh State. Bids now are due for October 21.
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has paid a final equity dividend of 31% for fiscal 2014-15. In value terms, the total dividend paid for fiscal 2014-15 amounts to Rs.284 Crore, which is 58% of the paid-up capital (including an interim divid
The global roadshows at four locations to attract investments for its big-ticket stake sale in the country’s largest power producer NTPC and BEL began on Monday (Oct 5). The campaign that may fetch around Rs 6,600 crore to the exchequer, wil
As per budget announcement and to fulfill promise made under the Andhra Pradesh re-organization Act 2014, the union cabinet chaired by prime minister Narendra Modi today gave its approval for setting up of All India Institutes of Medical Sci
Telangana legislator and All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Akbaruddin Owaisi faces arrest over an inflammatory speech at an election rally in Bihar. An FIR against Akbaruddin was registered on Monday at Kochadha
"The Elementary Forms of Religious Life" is an important text by French sociologist Émile Durkheim -- at least for those who live in today`s India, when rationality is so much cowed (pun intended) down by the bigots of different h
India is home to about 2,00,000 refugees, mostly religious minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. But the country is yet to have a national policy on asylum seekers, creating an awkward situation for Sikhs and Hindus who seek shelte
Writer Nayantara Sahgal, who is also the niece of former PM Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, has returned the Sahitya Akademi Award on Tuesday protesting the Dadri lynching. She said that “people were being killed for not agreeing with the ruling id
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has promised a rational tax rate for individuals and bringing down of corporate tax to 25 per cent flat in four years beginning next fiscal along with removal of exemptions except those that encourage individual savin
“India is Asia`s Silicon Valley,” declared German chancellor Angela Merkel in Bengaluru today. Addressing an Indo-German summit hosted by Indian IT association Nasscom in association with Fraunhofer called ‘Digitizing Tomorrow To
