New Delhi: The government will announce the successor of outgoing RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan well in advance and there won’t be any search panel to look for the new chief of the central bank, an official source said. “It (announcement of new Governor) will happen reasonably in advance. We don’tRead More

New Delhi: The Central government has announced a series of big changes on Monday in the FDI norms for single brand retail, civil aviation, airports, pharmaceuticals and animal husbandry. The decision to further liberalise FDI regime with the objective of “providing major impetus to employment and job creation in India”Read More

New Delhi: BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Sunday joined his colleague Mahesh Giri’s hunger strike outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s home over the M M Khan murder case and said he would now focus on exposing him. Swamy, who had been advocating for the ouster of RBI Governor RaghuramRead More

New Delhi: With Delhi University blocking the RTI query seeking details of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BA degree, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday asserted that this development has further deepened the ‘mystery’ surrounding the degree. Taking to Twitter to express his astonishment over DU’s decision, Kejriwal hit outRead More

New Delhi: With Raghuram Rajan announcing his decision to leave his post as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor on the completion of his term, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy, who had actively sought Rajan’s dismissal, said on Sunday that his next ‘project’ is to expose aRead More

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday said that China was not opposed to India’s entry into the 48-member Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and that it only wanted to deliberate on the process that allows new countries to be a party of the elite group. “As far asRead More

Mumbai: There are seven candidates on a long list to replace Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan, a senior government official said on Saturday. The candidates are Vijay Kelkar, Rakesh Mohan, Ashok Lahiri, Urjit Patel, Arundhati Bhattacharya, Subir Gokarn and Ashok Chawla, the official said, speaking on condition ofRead More

Mumbai: Shattered over the recent massacre where a mentally unstable gunman killed 49 people in a nightclub in Orlando, former ICC President N Srinivasan’s son Ashwin and his gay partner Avi Mukherjee have restarted efforts for freedom after facing house arrest and torture by Srini. “Just like the Orlando killerRead More

Mumbai: Shiv Sena, which will on Sunday celebrate its golden jubilee at a grand function here. The party on Saturday claimed that it is the “only guardian” of Maharashtra. Attempts were being made to destroy the Marathi identity and the unity of the state, which would not be allowed toRead More

Hyderabad: Claiming that 50,000 Muslims migrated after 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots, AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday asked the BJP if it will send a fact-finding committee there, akin to the one sent by it to Kairana on the issue of alleged migration of Hindus. The Hyderabad Lok Sabha member termedRead More