Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could call a snap election for next month, two years early, with a plan to boost his support by delaying another scheduled tax hike, reports said Wednesday. The first jump in sales tax, which came into effect in April, knocked a tentative revival offRead More

Asserting that it was time to commence work with India on a bilateral Free Trade Agreement, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he was keen on inking the deal within a year. He said the immediate priority was to seal the free trade deal with China that has been underRead More

London, The families of people who were on board the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 have lashed out at the airline decision that the plane would be declared “lost” by the end of 2014. According to the Independent, the commercial director of Malaysian Airlines Hugh Dunleavy said that Malaysian andRead More

Sydney, Prime Minster Narendra Modi is guaranteed another rock star reception, this time at the famous Sydney Olympic Park next Sunday. There is excitement, long queues for tickets, a scramble for the best passes and even a spot of controversy. PM Modi will be the first Indian Prime Minister toRead More

  Nay Pyi Taw, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday invited Malaysian companies to come to India as part of his “Make in India” initiative during talks with his Malaysian counterpart Najib Tun Razak. “I am giving lot of emphasis to @makeinindia & want to invite Malaysian companies toRead More

NewDelhi, Mamata Banerjee and Nitish Kumar are likely to accept a personal invitation from Congress president Sonia Gandhi and attend an international conference in Delhi to mark the 125th birth anniversary of India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not invited, the Congress made it clearRead More

  Mumbai, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ minority BJP government has won a confidence motion in the Maharashtra Assembly through a voice vote. The Shiv Sena and Congress have protested against the Speaker, Haribhau Bagde, deciding not to opt for a division vote – in which legislators press buttons on aRead More

Aligarh: The Aligarh Muslim University was on Tuesday at the centre of a raging controversy over not giving access to women undergraduates to the main library in the campus, evoking sharp criticism even as Government sought explanation over the “insult to daughters”. In a bid to defend his remarks, AMURead More

New Delhi, The Defence Minister Shri Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar today said, he would maintain the fast pace of acquisition set in motion by the Government for the Defence Forces while ensuring transparency at every stage. Taking over as the 36th Defence Minister of the country, Shri Parrikar said, hisRead More

Chandigarh, Haryana’s new BJP Government has urged the Central Government to promptly resolve the long pending issue of CST compensation and has suggested that from the year 2014-15 onwards either the States may be compensated fully till the GST is actually rolled out or the CST rate be increased toRead More