Government

Centre sets up panel to suggest ways of decongesting Delhi

10 Oct 2014

PM directs due compensation to people displaced by Pak firing

10 Oct 2014

Banks open 55.2 million accounts, mobilise Rs4,268 crore under PMJDY

10 Oct 2014

Vodafone wins transfer pricing case in India

10 Oct 2014

Bombay High Court has ruled against the Indian tax authorities’ Rs3,200-crore tax demand on Vodafone Plc over alleged undervaluation of shares in a transfer pricing dispute, saying no income was generated

DIPP clears 19 proposals, including six for defence production

07 Oct 2014

Modi gifts life-long visa to PIO cardholders

07 Oct 2014

Karnataka High Court refuses to grant bail for Jayalalithaa, others

07 Oct 2014

Special public prosecutor G Bhavani Singh argued that Jayalalithaa being an influential person, if granted bail, may try to escape from conviction or abscond from the country, but said he had no objection to granting her conditional bail

Saffron divorce: war of the roses

06 Oct 2014

Maharashtra has queered the pitch for the BJP, and in a way even for Narendra Modi, with five-cornered contests that will result in legislators with wafer-thin majorities leading to an ideological vacuum, cautions senior journalist and political commentator Kumar Ketkar

Modi's `Clean India’ mission set for mega launch

01 Oct 2014

The `Swachh Bharat’ mission aims at realising Gandhi’s dream of promoting behavioural change in school children so that they become agents of change in the society

Stable government spells 5.6% growth for India this year: Fitch

01 Oct 2014

Central government offices close early for ‘Swachh ‘Bharat’ clean-up

01 Oct 2014

Jayalalithaa to spend another week in jail as bail hearing deferred

01 Oct 2014

J Jayalalithaa's conviction automatically disqualifies her from continuing as chief minister or even as an ordinary member of the state assembly under a recent Supreme Court precedent

Modi ends triumphal US visit with many agreements, but no real deals

01 Oct 2014

Prime Minister Narendra Modi left the US with reaffirmed support for India's membership of the expanded UN Security Council, and backing for "voice and vote" in international financial institutions like IMF and the World Bank

Karnataka HC to hear Jayalalitha’s bail plea tomorrow

30 Sep 2014

Winter session to see as many as 987 outdated laws discarded

30 Sep 2014

Indian govt to switch to own email services by March 2015

29 Sep 2014

The government of India will switch to its own email service for official communication within the country by March 2015

Ready for talks with Pakistan, but without shadow of terror: Modi

27 Sep 2014

Addressing the UN General Assembly in Hindi, Modi said, “I am prepared to engage in serious bilateral dialogue with Pakistan in a peaceful and violence free atmosphere.”

Jayalalithaa to serve 4 years in jail, pay Rs100 crore fine in assets case

27 Sep 2014

Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa's aides Sasikala, V N Sudhakaran and J Ilavarasi have also been convicted under the Prevention of Corruption Act and sentenced to four years in jail and fines of Rs10 crore each

Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa convicted in assets case, may have to quit

27 Sep 2014

Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa has been found guilty by a special court in Bangalore in a disproportionate assets case which she has been fighting for 18 years

Indian fans create security headache as Modi lands in NY

27 Sep 2014

Security was thrown into a state of confusion as Modi waded into the cheering crowds to receive a tumultuous welcome unseen before in New York

Maharashtra CM resigns as NCP pulls out of alliance

26 Sep 2014

Prithviraj Chavan, who took over as chief minister in November 2010, after the then chief minister Ashok Chavan got entangled in the Adarsh building scam, had since targeted NCP leaders, including Ajit Pawar, in his campaign against corruption