Govt hikes customs duty on mobile phones to 20 percent
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley yesterday announced a hike in customs duty on mobile phones to 20 percent from 15 percent in a bid to boost local value ...
Earthquake hits Maharashtra's Satara
An earthquake of magnitude 3.4 hit Maharashtra's Satara district on Friday morning.As per the meteorological department, the earthquake occurred at ar...
BSF foils infiltration bid along IB in Samba
BSF troops foiled an infiltration bid along the International Border (IB) in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said today."Suspicious mov...
Budget negative, super flop show,anti people: Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee dismissed the union budget presented yesterday as "negative and a super flop show" and said the "anti-peopl...
BJP backs out of joint declaration to boycott Nagaland polls
Bhartiya Janata Party has announced that it will contest the Nagaland assembly elections. BJP's state media cell convener, K James Vizo, made the anno...
Chief Justice Dipak Misra makes public the roster of allocation of cases to judges
Supreme Court Chief Justice Dipak Misra has made public the roster of allocation of matters to judges. CJI has decided to keep the Public Interest Lit...
Union budget shows that govt works for welfare of weaker sections: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said initiatives announced in the Union Budget showed it did not merely talk about the welfare of the weaker sections but...
Four AAP MLAs booked for assaulting Vijender Gupta and two mayors
Four AAP MLAs have been booked for allegedly assaulting Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta, two city mayors and others at the resid...
Nearly 20 pc reduction in budget for metro projects
The Centre has kept an outlay of Rs 14,264.60 crore for metro projects across the country in the Union Budget for 2018-19, a reduction of nearly 20 pe...
Rs 10,000 cr to boost fisheries, aquaculture and animal husbandry: Jaitley
New Delhi: Extending the facility of Kisan Credit Card to farmers engaged in fisheries, aquaculture and animal husbandry, Finance Minister Arun Jaitle...
Labour Unions, Including RSS Affiliated BMS, To Hold Nationwide Protests Against Jaitley's 'Fixed-Term Employment' Plan
New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's budget proposal to introduce system of 'fixed-term employment' in all sectors of the industry has already g...
Jaitley reduces corporate tax rate to 25% for Rs 250 cr turnover
New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday proposed to lower corporate tax rate to 25 per cent for businesses with turnover up to Rs 250 cro...
Rajasthan& WB Bye-poll results: Congress wins Rajasthan's Mandalgarh seat, TMC wins Naopara and Uluberia in Bengal
Counting of votes has been underway on Thursday for the bye-elections that were held in Rajasthan and West Bengal on Monday.In Rajasthan, bye-election...
SC adopts roster system for allocation of matters to judges
New Delhi: In a major development, the Supreme Court on Thursday adopted the roster system for allocation of matters to judges - an issue raised by fo...
Maha CM Devendra Fadnavis hails Arun Jaitley's Railway Budget
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government allocated Rs 40,000 crore in the Union Budget towards enhancing transportation in Mumbai. Maharashtra ...
Lok Sabha adjourned until Monday
The Lok Sabha was today adjourned until Monday following the presentation of the Union Budget by Finance Minister Arun Jaitely.There will be no Lok Sa...
Centre to contribute 12% of wages to new employees under EPF: Arun Jaitley
The government on Thursday announced that it would contribute 12 per cent of the wages to new employees under the Employees Provident Fund Organisatio...
Jaitley announces Rs.10,000 cr allocation to boost telecom infrastructure
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today announced Rs 10,000-crore outlay for the 2018-19 fiscal on the expansion of telecom infrastructure under various g...
Union Budget 2018:Jaitley announces Rs.1.48 lakh cr for railways
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today announced a capital expenditure of Rs 1.48 lakh crore for the Indian Railways in his Budget 2018 speech.Most of th...
Snowfall in higher reaches of Kashmir
The higher reaches of Kashmir received fresh snowfall and the plains were lashed by rains today, even as the minimum temperature across the Valley sta...
Key benefits to education sector in the Union Budget 2018
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has announced a number of schemes and measures that are expected to benefit the education industry and also improve infr...
Congress leads in Alwar and Ajmer,moves ahead in Mandalgarh
The Congress was maintaining a significant lead in Alwar and Ajmer parliamentary seats in Rajasthan and it moved ahead in Mandalgarh assembly seat whe...
Union Budget 2018: Govt announces new LPG connections to 8 cr women under Ujwala scheme
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presents the Union Budget 2018 - the last budget of the BJP-led NDA government in the Parliament.Earlier in the day, mar...
New e-way bill system comes into force from today
A new e-way bill system will come into effect from today. Under the new system, every transporter will have to carry a system-generated bill to move g...
Sushma Swaraj to embark on two-day visit to Nepal today
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will embark on a two day visit to Nepal today. She will hold discussions with various political leaders on iss...
PM Modi launches Khelo India School Games
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that sports should occupy a central place in the lives of the youth of the country as it is an important means o...
Scrutiny of nominations for Tripura Assembly elections to be taken up today
Scrutiny of nominations for the Tripura Assembly elections will be taken up today. Yesterday was the last day for filing of nominations. State Electio...
India cannot become refugee capital of the world: Centre tells Supreme Court
The Centre has told the Supreme Court that it does not want the country to become the refugee capital of the world.Additional Solicitor General Tushar...
Union Budget for the next fiscal in Parliament today
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will present the Union Budget for the next fiscal in Parliament today.He will first present the budget in the Lok Sabha ...
Rajasthan bypolls: Congress leading in Ajmer, Alwar seats
The Congress was leading in Ajmer and Alwar parliamentary seats while the BJP was leading in Mandalgarh Assembly seat, according to initial trends in ...
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