Six Indians find place in Forbes top-50 list of ‘Asia’s Power Businesswomen 2015’. A businesswoman from Chennai too figures in this illustrious list. Akhila Srinivasan, Managing Director, Shriram Life Insurance Company Ltd., joins the list that includes leading names in the banking field such as Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairman and Managing Director of State Bank of […]
New Delhi, March 7 Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Saturday called on men “to learn from women” and make the national capital a city where “every woman feels free and lives happily”. Kejriwal, currently in Bengaluru for naturopathy treatment for high blood sugar and cough, made the appeal in a nearly one-minute radio message on […]
Srinagar, March 7 The Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday released separatist leader Masrat Alam from preventive detention after more than four years, police said. Alam was arrested during the 2010 unrest in the Kashmir Valley. He was accused of inciting youth during the unrest in which at least 112 people were killed in bloody […]
New Delhi, March 7 The government stands to gain an additional Rs.12,600 crore on Day Three of the coal auction on Saturday, potentially swelling its kitty by nearly Rs.145,000 crore from the 19 rounds in the first tranche and the three rounds thus far in the second leg, as per the latest data. The Tara […]
New Delhi, March 7 Financial business, including a discussion on the railway and general budgets for 2015-16, and consideration and passing of the bills to replace the ordinances will be the main issues before both houses of parliament next week. Government business in the Lok Sabha for the next week includes consideration and passing of […]
A principal reason for Narendra Modi being swept to power in May was disgust with Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Manmohan Singh – indecisive, short on ideas, bereft of charisma and supervising a government of scams. In a house of 543, the Congress had 209 seats. The shortfall of 63 was made up of coalition […]
Islamabad, March 7 Pakistani authorities have arrested 46 Indian fishermen and seized their boats for allegedly violating the country’s territorial waters in the Arabian Sea, officials said. The fishermen were detained by the Maritime Security Agency (MSA) on Friday after they strayed into Pakistani waters for fishing illegally, a MSA statement said, Xinhua reported. India […]
New Delhi, March 6 Giving a major fillip to India’s neighourhood outreach in the Indian Ocean region, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a five-day visit to the three key island nations of Seychelles, Mauritius and Sri Lanka from March 10. However, the Maldives leg of the visit is not on, in view of […]
New Delhi, March 6 Day three of the e-auction of radio frequency spectrum, or airwaves, with the eight companies in the fray made an offer for Rs.77,000 crore at the end of the 17th round, the government said on Friday. “Seventeenth round was completed with Rs.77,000 crore commitment today (Friday),” the government said. It was […]
Patna, March 6 A rescue and rehabilitation centre has opened in Bihar to protect and conserve the Garuda, an endangered species of the stork family. The first-of-its-kind centre opened this week in Bhagalpur district, said Sanjay Sinha, a divisional forest officer. Nearly eight years after these endangered birds started nesting and breeding in Bhagalpur, their […]