Jammu/New Delhi, Formation of BJP-PDP coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir will be announced next week as the two parties have “ironed out” differences on the contentious issues of AFSPA and Article 370 and are giving “finishing touches” to the Common Minimum Programme. Stating this here today, senior BJP leaderRead More

New Delhi, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has assured the government of cooperation in ensuring smooth functioning of the budget session of parliament beginning Monday, Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said on Sunday. Naidu reached out to the Congress party seeking its cooperation for the smooth functioning of parliament. InRead More

Male, Maldives police have arrested former President and current opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed under anti-terrorism laws. A document signed by the prosecutor general seen by The Associated Press said that Nasheed was arrested on Sunday to stand trial for his 2012 order as president to arrest a senior judge. ItRead More

New Delhi, The NDA government Sunday reached out to the opposition ahead of the budget session with Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu meeting Congress president Sonia Gandhi over its agenda that includes the contentious ordinance on land acquisition. The government agenda for the session beginning Monday includes 44 itemsRead More

New Delhi, The Income Tax department is set to launch over 100 fresh prosecution complaints for “wilful” evasion of taxes against those entities and individuals whose names have figured in the HSBC, Geneva black money bank accounts list. The department, according to sources, is also expected to collect an additionalRead More

New Delhi, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is expected to present a common man-friendly Budget on February 28 by either raising tax slabs or hiking investment limit in savings instruments, in a bid to win over the middle class after the Delhi Assembly elections debacle. The Bharatiya Janata Party lost toRead More

Washington/New Delhi, America’s wheat industry has accused India of offering export subsidies to its farmers which are illegal under its WTO pledge, saying countries like China and India have far exceeded their WTO commitments on key commodities resulting in serious trade distortions. “Increasing support levels gave Indian farmers an artificialRead More

New Delhi, The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday said it will support Anna Hazare’s protest against the amendments made in the Land Acquisition Act if the social activist ‘invites’ them to do so. “In principle we are with Anna Hazare on this issue, but as you know that AnnaRead More

New Delhi, The government has approved projects worth Rs 6,300 crore for socio-economic welfare of the minority communities under the Multi-sectoral Development Programme (MSDP) in the 11th and 12th five-year plans, a response to an RTI query has revealed. According to the response by Minority Affairs Ministry, the programme wasRead More

New Delhi, The government is working on an ambitious plan to build one smart city each at the country’s 12 major ports, at an estimated total investment of Rs 50,000 crore, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said. “Each port will construct one smart city. We are trying to do this.Read More