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Union finance minister Arun Jaitley today filed defamation suits against Arvind Kejriwal and other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders for accusing him of corruption in Delhi`s cricket body DDCA (Delhi and District Cricket Association). The minister has
Maharashtra now has a clear policy on solar power. According to the state-run power distribution company consumers can install solar panels for their power generation and consumption. As per Maharashtra State Electricity Distributio
Maharashtra’s teachers’ recruitment scandal is getting murkier with nearly 30% files on appointment process are missing. After 32 teaching and non-teaching staff approvals made by Pune Municipal Corporation education officer Baban Dahi
The supreme court today rejected a petition filed by the Delhi commission for women against the release of the juvenile convict in what is known as the Nirbhaya gang-rape case, saying it "shared" the concern of general citizens` but its
The Central government will today introduce the Bankruptcy Bill in the Parliament. The Bill when enacted will improve ease of doing business in India. The Rajya Sabha, which has passed only one Bill during the ongoing session of Parliament because
The Patiala House court on Saturday granted unconditional bail on a personal bond of Rs 50,000 each to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul. Then the court in New Delhi posted the hearing of high-profile National Herald ca
IT industry veteran and Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has said that hike in work visa fee (HiB and L1 visa) in the US, will not have an impact on the Indian IT industry`s growth. "I don`t think it is an issue at all, $2,000 or $4,000 tha
As Delhi government prepares to unveil its plan to restrict vehicles with an aim to reduce pollution in the capital, air quality in Delhi is once again in the category of ‘very poor’ and is likely to stay that way over the weekend.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi are set to appear in Delhi`s Patiala House court in connection with the National Herald case at 3:00 pm today.The mother-son duo was summoned by a trial court on the charges of
An all-party meeting convened by Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari today failed to bring a consensus on the passage of the GST bill, but members of the upper house decided to pass six other pending bills - the SC ST (prevention of atrocities) amen
In the age of need for security the 9th International Fire & Security Exhibition and Conference (IFSEC) India Expo 2015, held last week at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, offered a wide range of products. Inaugurating the event, Delh
Do not deprive the right of the already deprived, was the anguished remark of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen. Touching the subject on literacy as an essential criterion to contest panchayat elections, he said there is a need for a Constitution bench t
Deficit rains and resultant fall in agricultural output has forced the government lower the GDP growth forecast for the current financial year to 7-7.5%. The latest GDP forecast, given in the Mid-Year economic review of the economy
With the Delhi high court on Friday refusing to pass any directive, the juvenile convicted in the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder of Nirbhaya will walk free on Sunday. The parents of Nirbhaya, as the paramedical student brutally ass
Policing Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest state with 20 crore people (2011 census), is no easy task. So when Dharmendra Singh, a native of the state, made it to the IPS in 2006 and was allotted the Uttar Pradesh cadre, he knew how challenging
If Delhi is struggling to tackle air pollution, the metropolis of Mumbai is battlling overcrowding of suburban train services. Again the judiciary has come up with suggestions to solve the problem faced by the capital of Maharashtra.
Mumbai Central railway station is going live next month, courtesy Google. The tech giant’s India-born CEO Sunder Pichai has promised to provide free and high-speed wi-fi access to railway commuters at over 400 stations in India. Google
Prime minister Narendra Modi has spoken with US president Barack Obama about the concerns of Indian IT industry and professionals on the proposed legislation in the US Congress relating to popular H 1B and L1 visas.Meanwhile, the US Congress has r
For the first time, Railways has invited suggestions and innovative ideas from the public to include them in its forthcoming budget to improve its operations and amenities to a satisfactory level.Suggestions can be given under 15 heads.The suggest
