LS poll slows down CV volume growth

NEW DELHI: India’s general elections are slowing...

Lalu corners Congress by seeking reservation for Muslims

NEW DELHI: As the former Bihar Chief...

Navtan Kumar

Rise in complaints against E-commerce sites

There has been a steep 16-fold increase in the number of complaints related to E-commerce shopping in the last five years. According to data of...

Ayushman Bharat from 15 August

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has set the ball rolling for the implementation of the Narendra Modi government’s ambitious mega health...

Reward up to Rs 1cr for benami property tip-off

The Centre is planning a massive crackdown on “benami” properties holders by using the information received from the general public. It has also declared...

BJP identifies 200 LS seats for fight with Congress

BJP will target Rahul Gandhi in these constituencies in an organised manner.   With Opposition parties failing to put up a united prime ministerial candidate for...

Opposition plans to stall Triple Talaq Bill in Rajya Sabha

Opposition parties may stall the passage of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017, better known as the Triple Talaq Bill,...

Yogi government gearing up for Kumbh

Wants to showcase it as a global religious-cultural event. Asks business houses to utilise CSR funds in it.   The Yogi Adityanath-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...

World Hindu meet in Chicago to mark 125 years of Swamiji’s historic address

The World Hindu Congress will be organised in Chicago in September this year to commemorate 125 years of Swami Vivekananda’s historic address in the...

JDU ready to settle for fewer seats in Bihar

Climbdown in the JDU camp has come after the RJD flashed a strict ‘no’ sign to allow JDU into the RJD-Congress alliance.   As Bharatiya Janata...

Pathalgadi movement in Jharkhand turns toxic

The recent wave of tribal unrest under the banner of the Pathalgadi movement in tribal-dominated Jharkhand, has unnerved the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, which...

Lalu no to Nitish on Tejashwi advice to keep JDU out

Tejashwi Yadav was able to convince his father that Nitish Kumar’s re-entry would not be in the party’s interest.   Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu...

Maintain separate racks for generic medicines: DCGI

In a significant move, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has issued instructions to the state drug controllers to ensure that the private...

Cabinet reshuffle expected before monsoon session

According to BJP sources, its largest alliance partner Shiv Sena’s representation is likely to be increased.   A short Cabinet reshuffle is likely to take place...

Coordination pays off, coal production rises

Better coordination between the Ministries of Coal and Railways in the last few weeks has led to increased coal production, which, in turn, has...

Railways likely to continue with flexi-fare system

Though the government had formed a panel to review it, sources said the dynamic pricing system will stay.   The government is unlikely to do away...

Odisha likely location for Arcelor-SAIL JV

Irrespective of the location of the new facility, the hot-rolled input products for it will be supplied by SAIL’s hot strip mill in Rourkela.   Global...

Delay in picking Rajasthan BJP chief

‘Shah is in favour of Gajendra Singh Shekhawat as the new state chief, but Raje does not want him.’   Delay in appointment of the state...

RS election will be next NDA-opposition battleground

Efforts are on to woo “fence sitters” such as the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and the YSR Congress, for...

Meeting with Nitish may be on Shah’s agenda

Also, BJP plans to woo other parties in order to widen the alliance.   After reaching out to alliance partners Shiv Sena in Maharashtra and Shiromani...

UP will start green Ganga-banks project

Plantation will be done on both sides, all through the river’s 1,140 km long stretch in UP.   While the Centre is pushing hard to clean...

Vivek Agnihotri’s film on Shastri’s death will be ‘investigative drama’

His Twitter message and the reaction of the Twitterati to that message prompted filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri to make a film on the mysterious death...

BJP may go for organisation rejig in poll-bound states

The party has also started organisational reshuffle in states like Andhra Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.   With Karnataka elections over, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...

Parties want time to prove majority reduced

Post-Karnataka, some political parties, including the Congress, have demanded that the time period allowed to prove majority in the case of a hung House...

More than 2 lakh patients used Centre’s free dialysis schemes in two years

More than 2.3 lakh poor patients have availed the Centre’s free dialysis scheme in the last two years. The Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Programme (PMNDP),...

Seven flagship schemes will be BJP’s poll plank

The NDA government plans to finish implementing these schemes in all the villages of the country before the Lok Sabha elections.   The BJP-led NDA government...

‘United opposition is not a threat to NDA’

The Bharatiya Janata Party said on Saturday that the Opposition unity, as witnessed in Bengaluru after the Karnataka Assembly elections, would not pose any...

‘Congress not in position to lead opposition against BJP’

‘Congress has ceased to be a pole for the anti-BJP forces.’   The Congress’ loss in the Karnataka elections as well as its surrender of the...

Increase in housing sales gives hope to real estate sector

Housing sales increased by about 25% in seven major cities in the country in April, giving some hope that real estate sector may be...

Retailers plan to challenge Walmart-Flipkart deal

Traders fear that Walmart will take the Flipkart route to enter the Indian retail market.   New Delhi: Retail traders are all set to challenge the...

Only 22% funds utilised in six Housing Ministry schemes

The Centre has been able to utilise only 22% of the funds allocated for the execution of six flagship schemes under the Ministry of...

JDS set to play kingmaker, say most exit polls

Most of the exit polls have predicted that none of the three major political parties will be able to get a majority in the...

Banks not making ATMs, Point of Sale devices compliant to EMV chips

Banks are not following the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) directive to make the automated teller machines (ATMs) and Point of Sale (POS) devices...

20 GW solar power ahead of deadline

Centre has launched several schemes for promotion of solar energy.   India has achieved the ambitious target of setting up solar power plants of 20,000 MW...

Railway advances deadline to eliminate unmanned crossings

Indian Railways is planning to advance the deadline for complete elimination of unmanned level crossings (UMLCs). According to an official of the Ministry of Railways,...

Academicians stress on ‘originality’ in research work

Researchers who indulge in plagiarism may lose their registration and teachers who do so could lose their jobs.   With University Grants Commission (UGC) approving a...

Electric vehicle makers want FAME II rolled out

The Centre had recently decided to extend the current FAME India scheme till 30 September.   Electric vehicles manufacturers want the Centre to roll out the...

BJP leaders eye Patna LS seat as Shatru courts RJD

With cine-star turned politician and BJP MP from Patna Sahib, Shatrughan Sinha, exploring options in Lalu Prasad Yadav’s RJD, leaders of the Kayastha community...

Centre says 82% rural households have toilets

As per the figures, 373 districts and as many as 353,461 villages have been declared Open Defecation Free.   The Centre has said that 82% rural...

Coal shortage may push up power tariffs

The shortage is also affecting the health of captive power producers.   The reducing Plant Load Factor (PLF) or the efficiency of the independent power projects,...

Corruption complaints to CVC decline by 52%

The CVC, in its report tabled in Parliament recently, said it received a total of 23,609 complaints in 2017, the lowest since 2011, as...

Centre working to fill SC-ST vacancies in jobs

As many as 28,713 posts under the reserved category are lying vacant in 10 major ministries and departments.   The Centre has swung into action to...

State governments lax on implementing SC/ST Act

The average conviction rate under the Act remained only 24% in the last five years.   State governments have been lax towards implementation of the Scheduled...

Karnataka BJP wants Sriramulu as Dy CM face

By giving the ticket to Sriramulu, the party leadership has overruled its policy of not fielding MPs in state Assembly polls.   A section of the...

Sugar production expected to rise by 45%

Record sugar production in the country is all set to bring cheer to the consumers, with the prices expected to come down further. The...

I would love to do an Indian movie some day: Franco

Italian actor Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparaner is famously known as Franco Nero in the world of cinema. The 76-year-old superstar is especially popular for...

Geert Chatrou is popularising the art of whistling

All of us are familiar with whistling. Many of us love to whistle in our leisure time. But hardly any of us believe that...

Muscat International Film Festival hosts global stars

The 10th Muscat International Film Festival (MIFF), got off to a colourful start on 26 March, featuring celebrities from across the world, including Bollywood—a global mix...

Significant reduction in terror attacks in NDA’s four years

The country has seen a considerable reduction in the number of terror attacks taking place in the first four years of the NDA government,...

‘No information on benefits of reservation to Scheduled Castes’

The government has no information about the benefits of reservation given to people in the Scheduled Castes (SCs) category and has no mechanism to...

Buyers want government intervention in unsold flats

Buyers want intervention of the Union Urban Development Ministry so that over 4.40 lakh residential units, lying unsold across the country, are sold. According...

Four years on, CBI yet to file coal scam charge sheet against officials

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has not filed any charge sheet against the officials of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) under then Prime...

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