Mumbai, Amid a stalemate over sharing seats in Maharashtra, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday said it will send a new proposal to the Shiv Sena after a meeting of its core committee in Mumbai. The Sena had on Thursday dismissed BJP’s national president Amit Shah’s suggestion for protecting BJP’sRead More

New Delhi/ Mumbai, India has capped the prices of 36 drugs, including those used to treat infections and diabetes, in its latest move to make essential medicines more affordable, a senior official of the country’s drug pricing authority told Reuters on Friday. The medicines join the 348 drugs deemed essentialRead More

New Delhi, As they aim to reset ties, India and China have resolved to pursue finding an early solution to the thorny boundary issue as a “strategic objective”, noting that an early settlement of the dispute will advance their basic interests. A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and ChineseRead More

New Delhi, The distribution of relief material to the victims of the J&K floods is fast turning into an onerous task for the Central agencies as the state machinery continues to remain virtually defunct. According to top officials, the Centre has withdrawn five teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)Read More

New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Friday asked the CBI not to take any final decision on any case arising out of multi-crore coal scam after serious allegations were levelled against its Director Ranjit Sinha for protecting some accused. A bench headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha also askedRead More

Bangalore -: Around 350 children of a government-run Urdu primary school were hospitalised on Friday as they took ill after having mid-day meal at K G Halli here, two ministers said. The children were rushed to hospital after they complained of head ache and stomach ache and started vomiting, doctorsRead More

New Delhi, A Doordarshan newsreader mispronouced the name of visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping, following which the channel decided to remove the anchor. Officials said the newsreader, during one of the evening slots, mistook the first part of the Chinese president’s name Xi for the Roman numeral eleven and pronoucedRead More

New Delhi, Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday told Chinese President Xi Jinping that “peace and tranquillity” at the border is imperative and that all issues as agreed earlier should be resolved. Singh said it was encouraging to see expansion of relationship which is going to prove important for manufacturingRead More

New Delhi, Information and Broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar on Friday said that government has an idea of allowing FM Radio channels broadcast news provided by All India Radio (AIR), which in the coming days could also work as a news agency. Javadekar said that FM Radio is allowed to disseminateRead More

Amethi, In the wake of a clash which broke out here over a dispute involving his ancestral house, Congress MP Sanjay Singh today appealed to mediapersons “to avoid the publication of baseless news items” related to his family. In a release here, Singh said, “The allegations by daughter Mahima SinghRead More