May 28, 2015
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government does not have any “information” on Bollywood actor Salman Khan’s 2002 hit-and-run case as the files pertaining to it were gutted in a fire at the secretariat office, an RTI (right to information) query has revealed.
May 28, 2015
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that he has consciously avoided choosing a "populist course" and had instead opted for a "more difficult path" of correcting the defective government machinery.
May 27, 2015
New Delhi: Hours after slamming the NDA government, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today met Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Singh went to 7 Race Course Road residence of the Prime Minister to meet him.
May 27, 2015
New Delhi: Amendments in the land acquisition bill in the interest of farmers, poor, village and nation will be accepted, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday asserting that along with GST bill the measure will be passed by Parliament in "a matter of time".
May 27, 2015
By Geeta Goindi
Rockville, Maryland – On May 24, Natya Bharati, the Washington area’s pre-eminent theatre group, presented an eye-opening play, ‘Lal Batti Express’ (Red Light Journey), more like a series of skits featuring girls from India who played their real life roles highlighting one of the most important issues of our time – human trafficking.
May 26, 2015
New Delhi: Yet another book has come out damming the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government with former Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chairman Pradip Baijal alleging that the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had warned him of harm if he did not cooperate on 2G telecom licenses.
A file photo of Manmohan Singh.
May 26, 2015
Drones may edge closer and closer to becoming our common couriers, photographers and even hunters, but when it comes to autonomous electric flying technologies, there's still one area that seems out of reach: personal transportation. Joby Aviation aims to change that with its battery-powered aviation technology.
May 26, 2015
NEW DELHI – Union Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Monday asked tax officials to squeeze the parallel economy but gave an assurance to honest taxpayers that they should not be afraid of the ‘black money Bill’ as it is meant to target individuals who have stashed illegal assets abroad.
May 26, 2015
Karachi: Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain's son escaped unhurt when a powerful roadside bomb planted by Baloch separatists targeted his convoy, killing at least three persons and injuring 15 others in the restive Balochistan province.
May 25, 2015
NEW DELHI – In her small home, Nagamma is seated just a few feet away from her husband's dead body. 24 hours ago, he collapsed after the temperature crawled past 47 degrees in Nandigama in the western part of Andhra Pradesh.
A family friend says Nagamma's husband was rushed to two hospitals in quick succession. "They administered intravenous fluids but he died in 15 minutes," he said.
