Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday asked various central ministries to remain in a state of readiness for implementing schemes and projects as funds would be made available from April 1. “This time the Finance Bill would be passed by Parliament before March 31, 2017, therefore, different ministries should be[Read More…]
A day after making a ‘sexiest’ comment on former First Lady Michelle Obama admiring utensils while cooking in her kitchen, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has come with another remark that is likely to take the internet by storm. Addressing a convention of Congress workers at Ram Lila Maidan, Rahul[Read More…]
Claiming that the voice of working women in India is stifled under pressures of a daily work commute and the responsibility of managing their households, JLL India, a professional services and investment management firm specialising in real estate, has listed safer and more convenient areas where women can live, work[Read More…]
Kerala budget presented by finance minister on Friday proposed a revolutionary decision to make Internet access a human right. As the country is on the race to become digitally empowered, Kerala is all set to become first state to recognise the right to Internet access. The project named K-FON (Kerala[Read More…]
Experts on Tuesday emphasised that the appropriate and interesting reading material in child’s language and access to libraries are necessary conditions to build a reading nation. “To build a reading nation, it is important to start with children. Unless we create age appropriate and interesting reading material in the child’s[Read More…]
At least one suspected terrorist opened fire at security forces in Thakurganj area of Lucknow, on Tuesday afternoon. The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad is currently engaged in an operation in Thakurganj area of Lucknow. The area is among the densely populated areas of Lucknow. Security officials had to fire tear-gas[Read More…]
Director Vidhu Vincent’s ‘Manhole’ has been selected as the best film of 2016 in Kerala State Film Awards. Minister of state for cinema AK Balan announced the award at a press conference in Thiruvananthapuram. Vinayakan bagged the best actor award for his realistic performance in the movie Kammatipaadam, while Rajisha[Read More…]
Cricket’s law-makers are to limit bat-sizes and introduce sendings-off among a new batch of rules which will take effect this year. Bats will be measured with a bat gauge to make sure they don’t exceed 108mm (4.25 inches) in width, 67mm in depth and 40mm at the edges, the Marylebone[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announcements yet to see the light of day even after 18 months as Bihar still awaits the bounty of Rs 1.25 lakh-crore announced by him during the poll campaign in October 2015 elections. Ironically, the promises which were made during Bihar polls are yet to be[Read More…]
The Bihar government has decided to allocate about 50 acres of land at Bhagalpur College of Engineering (BCE) to the Union ministry of human resource development (MHRD) for building up a unit of Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT). The plan has been in discussion since 2010. Energy minister Bijendra[Read More…]
Former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba along with four others were sentenced to life in jail by the Gadchiroli court on Tuesday under Sections 13, 18, 20, 38, 39 of UAPA and 120 B of the IPC, said advocate Barun Kumar, who represented them in the court along with[Read More…]
India put in one of their best bowling performance under pressure in recent time to defend a total of 188 in the second against Australia Test at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore on Day 4, beating Australia by 75 runs. They thus brushed aside the harrowing Pune defeat and brought 1-1[Read More…]
Days after the report of hate crimes against Indians, an anti-immigration website that features the video and photo of Indian families chilling in Ohio has Indian communities across the US worried. A report titled “Ohio – A Journey to Indian Park”, and an accompanying video, has been posted in the[Read More…]
Terming Yadav family feud as awful, Mulayam Singh Yadav’s wife Sadhna Yadav on Tuesday admitted that she want her younger son Parteek Yadav to enter in politics. “Yes I feel bad after what happened in the family, I don’t blame anyone (for allegations on her),” she said when asked about[Read More…]
Pankhuri Pathak, 25, is making her mettlesome presence felt on national television debates regularly; and these days even more so because of the ongoing Uttar Pradesh elections. The youngest media face of Samajwadi Party, Pankhuri, is a strongly opinionated young woman who has risen up the rungs of politics with[Read More…]
There is huge space for a new political party to come forward as existing parties are family-owned enterprises, said former Union finance minister P Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram while speaking at a forum, Generation 67 (G67). He also stressed that these existing parties have closed their doors for the new[Read More…]
Maharashtra Police on Sunday retrieved as many as 19 female foetuses from a sewer in a village in western Maharashtra’s Sangli district. The police, while investigating the death of a 26-year-old woman after an illegal abortion, discovered the abandoned foetus in plastic bags in the sewer a few metres away[Read More…]
As clashes erupted between a mob and security personnel in Assam’s Dhemaji district, a number of people including police personnel. The clash turned violent as the mob even allegedly attacked several vehicles, the police was forced to resort to lathicharge and fire teargas on protesters. Meanwhile, the conditions worsen at[Read More…]