New Delhi: The deadline issued by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to its MPs, who have not declared their assets, to do so ends on Wednesday. The party issued the directive at its parliamentary board meeting which was held yesterday. The BJP MPs have been asked to declare their assetsRead More

Mumbai: In the backdrop of alleged rape of a woman in a taxi by an Uber cab driver in Delhi, the Mumbai police on Tuesday ordered all 28 private cab operators here to provide data of their drivers, a move aimed at obviating any such incident in the metropolis. Also,Read More

New Delhi, Calling the rape of a 27-year-old executive as a “national shame,” Government on Tuesday asked all states to stop operations of all web-based taxi services even as it emerged that the accused cabbie was a serial sexual offender and was allegedly involved in two previous rapes in 2011Read More

Mumbai, The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) alleged on Tuesday that the BJP has a hidden agenda to separate the metropolis of Mumbai from the state of Maharashtra. NCP spokesman Nawab Malik had also tweeted on December 7 that Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis wants Prime Minister Narendra Modi to headRead More

New Delhi, Citing national security and confidentiality clauses, Finance Ministry has declined to disclose information on exchange of correspondence among India, Swiss and German authorities in connection with the black money probe. Replying to an RTI query, the ministry said it was obtaining information regarding Indians having accounts in foreignRead More

New Delhi, Despite an increase in the current account deficit (CAD) in the second quarter of the current fiscal, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said there is no cause for concern as forex reserves are comfortable. “In the first six months, the CAD is moderately under control,” Jaitley said inRead More

Srinagar: Ignoring calls for poll boycott and braving the cold weather, over 27 percent of the electorate on Tuesday exercised their franchise till noon in 16 constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and three of his cabinet colleagues are among 144 candidates whose fate will be decidedRead More

New Delhi, The Congress Tuesday said the government was trying to fill the budget deficit by hiking excise duty on fuel instead of passing the benefits of a drop in global crude oil prices to consumers. The government Dec 2 raised the excise duty onpetrol by Rs.2.25 a litre andRead More

New Delhi, The DRDO is not involved in the export of military equipment but some of its developed products and systems can be sold to “friendly countries”, the government said on Tuesday. The Defence Research and Development Organisation has been mandated towards making the country independent of foreign technology inRead More

New Delhi, Banning Uber, an international taxi-booking service, does not make sense, said union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday, adding that modern services like these should be encouraged and if there is some lacuna, it should be rectified. “It doesn’t make sense to ban services.Read More