Enforcement agencies have launched a massive exercise to identify and plug the sources that fund the activities of Islamic State (IS) sympathisers. Using the funds, some of the sympathisers have alre...
Atleast 40 faculty members from the IITs at Mumbai, Delhi, Khargapur and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore have, as of Wednesday, signed the petition lambasting Free Basics — a Facebook init...
An engineer was found murdered in Bihar’s Vaishali district on Tuesday, the second such incident in four days after two engineers were shot dead in Darbhanga for apparently defying extortionists’ dem...
The Narendra Modi government’s grand plans to bring in the private sector into the defence sector has received its first reality check with Russia refusing to sign up with a private sector partner fo...
Political vendetta seems to be the commission’s agenda, says Justice R.S. Sodhi.
The recent war of words between eminent professional historians and Sangh Parivar outfits reached a new high on Tuesday, with the Indian History Congress (IHC) passing a resolution against the arriva...
In a GATS regime, there would be no means of ensuring that only high-quality universities enter the fray to set up shop, nor would there be any means of controlling the cost of education they provide
India’s relation with the West Asian region is expected to be in focus during the first few months of 2016 as South Block appears set to host top Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Diplomatic sources t...
We need to provide full Internet at prices people can afford, not privilege private platforms. This is where India’s regulatory system has to step in
As bilateral relations get a boost from the Modi-Sharif bonhomie, it is time to widen the constituency for peace in Kashmir by scaling up trade across the Line of Control
If the objective is to connect the whole world to the Internet, then Free Basics by Facebook (previously known as internet.org) is a controversial method to achieve it. The company wants to provide a...
Senior office-bearers of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) will be meeting for three-day confabulations in Jalgaon in Maharashtra between January 6-8 to discuss a variety of issues, before they m...
A day after BJP workers clashed with their Congress counterparts in Assam’s Guwahati district, the Congress has called for a State-wide agitation on Wednesday to protest what it perceives as a “well ...
Amid concerns over the rising air pollution, the Union government is going to notify norms soon for vehicles to shift to clean fuels under Euro V and VI emission standards. “We are going to notify ...
Sovereign and pension funds from Russia, Singapore, the U.K. and the UAE are among those to express interest in the Rs. 40,000-crore National Investment and Infrastructure Fund, Union Finance Ministe...
The Krishnagiri police have warned that permission would not be given to conduct culturally degrading obscene dance events during the New Year celebrations.The police press release seeking to lay down...
The Goa police on Tuesday told the Children’s Court that they were thoroughly investigating the case of verbal abuse of a teenage girl by pop star Remo Fernandes. In their reply to a notice, they den...
The Centre on Tuesday announced Rs. 5083 crore as financial assistance to the drought-hit States of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.A high-level committee on Central assistance, after examining the pr...
The Election Commission of India On Tuesday announced that it will launch a Nationwide programme to link the server of Registrar of Birth and Death of each District with its server for “automatic del...
Come January and members of the Union Council of Ministers would be hitting the road to at least two constituencies other than their own, in an exercise to cobble up feedback for what Prime Minister ...
Putting his foot down, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said he would go ahead with the Commission of Inquiry into the alleged corruption in the Delhi and District Cricket Association ...
Under the scanner for corruption and other issues, the DDCA is trying to ring in some reforms, including stripping the Sports Committee of some its powers, in the New Year.The committee, originally f...
Even as the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is dragging its feet on having an electoral understanding with the Congress for the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal, it is increasingly emphas...
Sometimes, when the state is faced with a legal challenge to its policy, all it needs to impress the judiciary is to make a suitably pious claim. Kerala, a State that accounts for nearly 14 per cent ...
The Barack Obama administration’s decision to raise the visa fee for skilled professionals seeking temporary work in the U.S. is set to hit Indian companies in the IT sector. Nasscom, the trade assoc...
