New Delhi, June 25 Ahead of the presidential election, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday targeted former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar using a 2013 video of the Lok Sabha proceedings and a newspaper report. Meira Kumar has been named the Opposition’s presidential candidate to take on National DemocraticRead More

New Delhi, June 25 Aadhaar is not a valid identification document for Indians travelling to Nepal and Bhutan, the Union Home Ministry has said. Indians can travel to Nepal and Bhutan—both countries for which they don’t need visas—if they possess a valid national passport or election ID card issued byRead More

New Delhi, June 24 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday embarked on a three-nation tour of Portugal, the US and the Netherlands during which he will hold talks with the top leadership of those countries to boost bilateral ties. The highlight of his four-day visit will be the US legRead More

New Delhi,  Passports would now be in both Hindi and English, instead of just English, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said today. In changes aimed at easing the process of getting a passport, the minister also announced 10 per cent reduction in passport fee for applicants under eight and overRead More

New Delhi, June 24 The CBDT has notified revised income tax scrutiny notices that will allow taxpayers to conduct their business with the taxman over the Internet without needing to visit the I-T office, hence reducing physical interface between them. The new format pertains to three types of notices thatRead More

Washington, June 24 The first face-to-face meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump will give them an opportunity to look at the entire gamut of Indo-US engagement and to exchange views on issues of global interest, India’s envoy here has said. At the invitation of Trump,Read More

New Delhi, Amid a massive show of strength by the ruling BJP, NDA’s presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind today filed the nomination papers for the July 17 elections for the top constitutional post in the country. Kovind will kickstart his state-wise tour to seek support from home ground Uttar PradeshRead More

Sriharikota (AP),  India today successfully put into orbit a satellite that will boost its military surveillance capabilities along with 30 other tiny satellites — all but one of them foreign — from a single rocket in yet another milestone for its low-cost space programme. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C38)Read More

New Delhi, June 22 Former Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar was on Thursday named as the joint candidate of the Opposition parties for the July 17 Presidential poll. Kumar was a unanimous choice, said Congress president Sonia Gandhi who chaired the meeting of the Opposition parties. Kumar is a formerRead More

Srinagar, June 22 Three local Lashker-e-Toiba militants were killed and an Army officer was injured in an overnight gunfight in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. A protester was later killed and scores of others were injured in clashes that erupted in Pulwama following the killing of the militants. The gunfight hadRead More