New York Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is among the Forbes’ ranking of 100 most powerful women in the world, a list topped by German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the ninth consecutive year.The Forbes 2019 list of ‘The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women’ has been topped by Merkel, 65, followed byRead More

New Delhi India will have a new Parliament building when it celebrates its 75th year of Independence in 2022, Speaker Om Birla said on Friday. “The process of the new Sansad Bhawan is going on… two/three possibilities are there. I am hopeful when India celebrates its 75 years of Independence,Read More

New Delhi Of the 201 recommendations of the Swaminathan Committee report on farmers, 200 have been accepted by the government, including the one on giving them 50 per cent more MSP than the production cost of the crop, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said on Thursday. Stressing that agriculture isRead More

New Delhi The second two-plus-two dialogue between India and the US will take place on December 18 in Washington during which the two sides will make a comprehensive review of cross-cutting foreign policy and defence and security issues in bilateral ties. The Indian side will be represented by External AffairsRead More

New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday accused the opposition of speaking Pakistan’s language on the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill and asserted that the legislation will be written in “golden letters” in history. Addressing BJP parliamentary party meeting, Modi likened the bill to the government’s decision to nullify Article 370Read More

New Delhi The Rajya Sabha passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill on Wednesday, choosing not to send the contentious Bill to a select panel for review. The House voted for the motion 125-105. The Shiv Sena, a former ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party, walked out before the vote. Home MinisterRead More

New Delhi The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has proposed sanctions against Union Home Minister Amit Shah and other principal leadership if the Rajya Sabha also passes the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB). “The CAB is a dangerous turn in the wrong direction; it runs counter to India’s richRead More

Hyderabad The Telangana police on Tuesday submitted a report on the killing of all four accused in the Hyderabad gang-rape and murder of a veterinarian to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). The report was given to the team of the NHRC team probing the December 6 “encounter”. Though theRead More

New Delhi, December 9 Scores of JNU students were lathicharged by police on Monday and several of them detained when they tried to march towards Rashtrapati Bhawan against the hostel fee hike. Amid heavy police deployment and barricades beginning right at the campus, the students began their march but wereRead More

New Delhi The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider granting hearing on Wednesday on one of the PILs seeking an SIT probe into the killing of four men, arrested on charge of gangrape and murder of a veterinarian in Telangana, by the police in an alleged encounter. A BenchRead More