9 Apr 2017, 10:19
The government and the Reserve Bank of India pulled out all the stops to ensure that those with stashes of old notes were caught off guard.
9 Apr 2017, 10:34
Earlier, Modi drew praise for restraining increases in agri support prices, thus helping tame inflation. But he has now reversed gear and gone populist.
9 Apr 2017, 10:21
India, 5 times economically weaker than China, can hardly afford to take a tough stance. But Trump's China-bashing gives it a chance to play the Tibet card.
9 Apr 2017, 12:16
Jairam Ramesh, the politician in the United Progressive Alliance government, was an early opponent of importing so many different types of reactors.
9 Apr 2017, 12:20
The Chinese Navy also came to the help of the ship while the Indian Navy provided air cover. The PLA deployed 18 of its personnel to sanitise the ship.
9 Apr 2017, 12:03
As the BJP government, flush with recent electoral successes, consolidates its political supremacy, it is being cheered on by a set of foreign-bred Hindutva activists.
9 Apr 2017, 10:58
Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje, who has been silent about the lynching, was also berated on Twitter for talking about Stockholm instead of violence closer to home.
9 Apr 2017, 07:55
A Brahmin who went on to discover the delights of a succulent steak only to give it up later in life has few regrets about either.
9 Apr 2017, 09:32
In June 2012, PM Sheikh Hasina conferred the “Friend of Bangladesh” award on Tara, who was commissioned into 14 Guards in the Indian Army in 1963 and retired as a Colonel in 1994.
9 Apr 2017, 08:32
All the polling stations have been declared as either sensitive or hyper-sensitive keeping in mind threats from various militant outfits and separatist groups.
9 Apr 2017, 09:00
Yogi’s comment comes after a controversy that sparked recently when a few corporators of Meerut Municipal Corporation protested the singing of Vande Mataram at the corporation hall.
9 Apr 2017, 00:00
The RK Nagar by-poll, scheduled for April 12, is being keenly contested and watched, despite its result having no effect on the stability of the government.
9 Apr 2017, 00:01
Ragi (finger millet), the staple diet food of southern Karnataka was down from 7.88 lakh hectares in 2010-11 to 6.46 lakh hectares in 2012-13.
9 Apr 2017, 08:20
Both mobile internet and fixed line broadband connectivity were suspended in the three poll-bound districts which constitute Srinagar-Budgam parliamentary constituency.
9 Apr 2017, 00:29
The state’s potato harvest this year (the tuber harvest typically begins in end-January and continues through February) has seen a 22% jump.
9 Apr 2017, 00:00
Legalising betting, lotteries and such activities that generate large illicit cash, and taxing agricultural income may help shrink the sanctuaries being used by black money hoarders.
9 Apr 2017, 06:27
India and Bangladesh signed five defence-related MoUs, including a $500 million line of credit for defence purchases from India.
8 Apr 2017, 22:10
In a very unfortunate incident, a TV anchor of a regional news channel of Chattisgarh had to read out a breaking-news of her husband’s death on Live TV.
8 Apr 2017, 19:59
"I wish Chinese officials accompanied me during my visits to find out if I am doing or saying anything against them," Dalai Lama said.
8 Apr 2017, 22:40
"The documents published by some media houses and doing the rounds in WhatsApp are what we had seized during our raids yesterday (Friday)," an I-T official confirmed.
