Panaji, Noted writer and senior BJP leader Mridula Sinha was on Sunday sworn-in as Governor of Goa, following the resignation of B V Wanchoo. Bombay High Court Chief Justice Mohit Shah administered the oath of office to Sinha. Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and other dignitaries were present at Raj Bhawan here onRead More

New Delhi, India is better prepared to handle the impact of interest rate increases in the United States as foreign FUNDSare less likely to desert the country due to signs of an upturn in economic growth, its central bank chief said in an interview published on Sunday. Reserve Bank ofRead More

New Delhi,  Maruti Suzuki India is confident of getting minority shareholders’ nod to let parent Suzuki Motor Corp own and INVEST in its Gujarat facility and has no second option. “We are thinking of getting voting (done) in October… There is no plan B, I can’t see why it should not happen,” Maruti Suzuki India ChairmanRead More

Katra shahadatganj, More than 100 new toilets were unveiled on Sunday in a poverty-stricken and scandal-hit village in northern India, where fearful and vulnerable women have long been forced to defecate in the open. Sanitation charity Sulabh International handed over the brightly coloured structures to cheering villagers in Uttar Pradesh state,Read More

Kolkata,  The BJP has set its sights on the state Assembly elections scheduled to be held in 2016 following its splendid showing in the recent general elections (Lok Sabha) in West Bengal. The newly appointed party president has even appointed a teacher to learn Bengali. Though Amit Shah was notRead More

New Delhi, The ruling BJP on Thursday slammed the Congress for instructing its chief ministers not to share dais with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The BJP said that the Congress was insulting the Prime Minister and breaching constitutional propriety by issuing such directives. The Congress directive came on Wednesday, aRead More

Ranchi, Days after Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was booed by the BJP activists during a rally attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren too faced a similar situation when hundreds of BJP supporters booed him on Thursday. The Jharkhand CM had to face embarrassing situation whileRead More

New Delhi – Hundreds of women Congress supporters protested outside Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s residence here Friday afternoon demanding an apology from him for terming the December 16, 2012, gang-rape case as a “small rape incident”. The protesters tried to march toward Jaitley’s Ashoka Road residence but were stopped by police. TheyRead More

New Delhi,  A day after the Supreme Court issued notice to the Centre on Uttarakhand Governor’s plea challenging Narendra Modi government’s moves to ease him out of office, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said there was no move to remove Aziz Qureshi. An appropriate reply will be given to Supreme CourtRead More

Bangalore,  Jnanpith awardee and renowned Kannada writer UR Ananthamurthy today died at a hospital in Bangalore, where he was undergoing treatment for kidney failure. The 82-year-old was said to be in critical condition and was on multi-monitor support. He was hospitalised for infection and fever 10 days ago. “….Anantha Murthy has beenRead More