The US Federal Reserve’s decision to scale down its economic stimulus programme by $10 billion should not affect the Indian markets, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said Thursday. “This decision was expected and should not in any way surprise or affect the Indian markets,” Chidambaram said in a statement after the US Federal Reserve announced that […]
Lt Governor Najeeb Jung said Thursday that he has asked Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to send him a proposal if he wants a probe into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. “Arvind met me and expressed the wish for a SIT probe into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. So I have told him to sent me a […]
Along with the government decision to raise to 12 the cap on annual availability of subsidised LPG cylinders, the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs Thursday decided to suspend the direct benefit transfer for LPG (DBTL) scheme till a committee conducts a review of its implementation. “Pending the committee examining the issues, the Aadhaar-linked LPG subsidy […]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will Thursday review its preparations for the April-May Lok Sabha polls and discuss the controversies involving its members. “The meet (Thursday) will review the preparations for Lok Sabha elections and discuss the number of seats to be contested,” a party statement said. “Discussions will also be held on various controversies […]
Both houses of the Andhra Pradesh legislature, by a voice vote Thursday, rejected the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill 2013 on creating a separate Telangana state. Amid protests by legislators from Telangana, the presiding officers in the legislative assembly and the council announced that official resolution for rejecting the bill were carried and adjourned the houses […]
Police in Puducherry recovered a pipe bomb Wednesday near central minister V. Narayanasamy’s residence, following which security was beefed up, an officer said. “The minister’s driver saw some suspicious object near the house around 8.00 or 8.30 a.m. Police were informed and the object was secured. It was a bomb and was diffused,” Puducherry Director […]
The centre informed the Delhi High Court Wednesday that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has not responded to a notice on its source of its funds. A division bench of Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Jayant Nath asked the petitioner, advocate M.L. Sharma, to include AAP as a respondent in the case and posted the […]
Two people were Wednesday detained and one kg of gold worth Rs.30 lakh seized from them at the airport here, an official said. Another person was arrested at Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Airport for carrying 50,000 euros, the official added. “We have detained two people for illegally carrying gold. Nearly 500 grams of gold […]
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev said tutors from his Patanjali Trust would soon be teaching yoga in Goa’s government schools. On the sidelines of a media briefing in Panaji Tuesday, Ramdev told IANS: “Our experts from the Patanjali (Yogpeeth) Trust will be soon teaching yoga at the government schools here.” He made the announcement after meeting […]
Jammu and Kashmir’s National Conference (NC)-Congress alliance headed by Omar Abdullah Wednesday resolved the deadlock over the creation of new administrative units in the state after NC patron and union minister Farooq Abdullah invoked the intervention of 10 Janpath. Authoritative sources told IANS Omar Abdullah and his father finally managed the intervention of Congress president […]