The Narendra Modi government is keeping its options open on a second term for Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan, as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was non-committal on whether he had made up his mind. In response to a question whether a decision had been taken, the finance minister just shrugged his shoulders. He […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said in the two years in office his government has made policy changes to curb corruption and opened up more of the economy to foreign investment while filling gaps in rural infrastructure. “I have actually undertaken the maximum reforms,” Modi said in an interview to the Wall Street Journal on […]
Six troopers were killed when an Assam Rifles convoy was ambushed on Sunday in Manipur’s Chandel district by insurgents of the Corcom, the apex body of six proscribed underground organisations, officials said. The attackers also snatched four AK-47 assault rifles, an INSAS rifle, a light machine gun and ammunition, before fleeing the spot. The defence […]
Key Indian equity indices opened higher on Monday morning following global cues. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex), was trading 168.82 points or 0.67 percent higher during the morning session. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was also trading 51.45 points or 0.66 percent higher at 7,801.15 points. The Sensex of the […]
Pinarayi Vijayan would be sworn-in as Kerala’s 22nd chief minister on May 25, in the state capital . The CPI-M led Left Democratic Front (LDF) won the polls on Thursday by winning 91 seats in the 140 member Kerala Assembly. The date was confirmed by Vijayan on Saturday meeting veteran party colleague V.S.Achuthanandan along with […]
AIADMK general secretary and Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Saturday met Governor K. Rosaiah and formally staked claim to form the next government in the state. She will be sworn in as chief minister for a second term at noon on May 23 at the Madras University Centenary Auditorium here. An official statement issued by […]
Breaking his silence on being an integral part of the Make in India initiative, Apple CEO Tim Cook discussed at length with Prime Minister Narendra Modi the possibilities of manufacturing and retailing Apple devices in the country as the two met here on a sweltering hot Saturday. Cook not only shared Apple’s future plans for […]
The union cabinet on Friday gave its nod to an ordinance to defer, for one year, implementation of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), which has been made mandatory for medical entrance across India following strong objections from some states, sources said. The ordinance, which puts on hold the Supreme Court’s May 9 ruling ordering the […]
One person was killed and scores of others injured as a powerful thunderstorm wrecked havoc in Hyderabad on Friday, uprooting hundreds of trees and disrupting electricity supply. A man was killed when a water tanker fell on him in Bhavani Nagar in the old city. Two labourers sustained grevious injuries as they fell from third […]
A senior operative of the Indian Mujahideen, Abdul Wahid Siddibapa, was arrested here on Friday after being deported from Dubai. A court later sent him to a week’s NIA custody. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Siddibapa, 32, at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. A cousin of Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal, he was described […]