June 17, 2015
New Delhi: Is Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan becoming collateral damage of the spike in Maoist insurgency? The pace of building toilets, key to ending the problem of open defecation, is slower in Naxal insurgency affected states.
June 17, 2015
NEW DELHI – Finance Minister Arun Jaitley says there are 16 cases pending against Lalit Modi, former chief of the Indian Premier League (IPL), for violating the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) and its adjunct, the Anti-Money Laundering Act. In 15 of them, show-cause notices have been issued by the government.
June 17, 2015
By Geeta Goindi
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi Graces the Event
June 16, 2015
United Nations: Indian peacekeepers faced allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse in three separate cases between 2010 and 2013, according to a new UN report.
June 16, 2015
More than any other smartphone brand in the world, Indians want to get their hands on an iPhone—and Apple may be finally moving to meet that demand.
June 16, 2015
Lalit Modi is a creation of Vasundhara Raje. Is the proverbial Frankenstein now being destroyed by her own creature?
June 16, 2015
Two samples of milk produced by Mother Dairy have been found to be substandard, and one of them contained detergent, a food watchdog official said on Tuesday.
A Mother Dairy official denied the charges, saying the company conducts "stringent quality tests", and the substandard milk was wrongly attributed to it. © IANS
June 15, 2015
New Delhi: Calling it "ModiGate", Rahul Gandhi on Monday accused Narendra Modi of "protecting" Lalit Modi and asked the Prime Minister to sack External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for her help to the former IPL Chairman in obtaining British travel documents.
June 14, 2015
The average price of regular grade gasoline rose by 3 cents over the last two weeks, the smallest gain in more than two months of steady increases, according to the Lundberg survey released on Sunday.
