June 29, 2016
NEW DELHI: The cabinet's decision on Wednesday to clear the 7th pay commission recommendation of 23.5 percent increase in compensation of government employees and pensioners has come at a right time for a growth-hungry economy.
June 29, 2016
Renowned statistician Nate Silver revealed his general election forecast on ABC's "Good Morning America" Wednesday, and he's placing Hillary Clinton at a near 80% favorite to win in the fall.
June 23, 2016
LONDON — Britain voted to leave the European Union after a bitterly divisive referendum campaign, sending global markets plunging Friday, casting British politics into disarray and shattering the stability of a project in continental unity designed half a century ago to prevent World War III.
June 22, 2016
MAGNANVILLE, France — The first time Larossi Abballa appeared on the radar of French terrorism investigators, the only act of violence they could pin on him was killing bunnies.
June 21, 2016
BRAZIL – A jaguar trotted out for the Olympic torch's passage through Brazil's Amazon was killed shortly afterward when it escaped its handlers and threatened a vet, the Brazilian military said Tuesday.
June 21, 2016
New Delhi – Challenged by increasing cases of defaulters who smartly evade paying due taxes, the Income Tax department has asked its officers not to shy away from invoking the rare provisions of arrest, detention and auctioning of attached assets of the accused.
June 21, 2016
NEW DELHI -- On Sunday, two top ministers of the Narendra Modi government - Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu - were seen attending an event organised by yoga guru Ramdev at Rajpath in New Delhi.
Yoga Chakras
June 20, 2016
Karachi: Police in Pakistan's Sindh province have arrested a shopkeeper who sold shoes with sacred Hindu word 'Om' inscribed on them and seized the offensive footwears following protests by the country's minority community.
June 20, 2016
India’s entry into an elite club controlling nuclear technology is not on the agenda of the group’s meeting this week, China said on Monday, but diplomats from the bloc’s other member-states insisted New Delhi’s candidature will be taken up.
June 20, 2016
New Delhi: Government on Monday relaxed Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) norms in a host of sectors including civil aviation, single-brand retail, defence and pharma by permitting more investments under automatic route.
File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI)
