New Delhi,  State-run United Bank of India on Monday became the first lender to declare debt-ridden KingfisherAirlines and its promoter Vijay Mallya as wilful defaulters. “We have declared Vijay Mallya and three other directors of Kingfisher Airlines as wilful defaulters,” United Bank of India executive director Deepak Narang said. The Grievance Redressal Committee (GRC) ofRead More

New Delhi, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday said the NDA government has freed the nation of policy paralysis and bad governance. Naqvi further said that the strong steps taken by the government in the first 100 days have yielded positive results. “It is clearly visibleRead More

New Delhi, The Home Ministry on Monday dismissed reports that Rajnath Singh has plans to meet his Pakistani counterpart on the sidelines of the SAARC conference in Nepal scheduled to be held later this month. The Home Minister’s office said in a tweet that Singh was of the firm opinionRead More

New Delhi, The Delhi High Court Monday sought response of CBI on the pleas of 14 suspended Uttarakhand cops, who have challenged their conviction and life imprisonment for killing a 22-year-old MBA student in a fake encounter in Dehradun in 2009. The trial court on June 9 had awarded lifeRead More

New Delhi – Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Monday rubbished rumours about cracks emerging in the alliance between his party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). “Just because the BJP’s alliance with Kuldeep Bishnoi in Haryana has collapsed, it doesn’t hold truth in the case with Shiv Sena in Maharashtra. ThisRead More

New Delhi – A special court on Monday asked the CBI to clarify whether “rule of law” was followed in allocation of coal blocks to top industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla’s Hindalco. During the hearing on the closure report filed by the CBI in its FIR lodged against Birla, former coal secretary PRead More

Tokyo, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday deplored the “expansionist” tendency among some countries which “encroach” upon seas of others, in oblique comments against China which is having a maritime dispute with Japan. “The whole world accepts that the 21st century will belong to Asia. But I have a question.Read More

Patna, Nalanda University (NU), which attracted students from the world over in ancient times, rose again on Monday as classes restarted at its newly established campus at Rajgir. The event marked the fruition of the idea proposed by former president APJ Abdul Kalam while addressing a joint session of BiharRead More

Tokyo, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe reportedly agreed to expand the bilateral cooperation between two nations in various sectors with Tokyo on Monday committing to double its direct investment in India from $2 billion last year to 3.5 trillion yen in next five years. MinistryRead More

New Delhi,  The new scheme offers flats ranging from Rs seven lakhs to Rs 1.2 crore across categories, viz – EWS, LIG, MIG, HIG, Janata flats and one-room apartments.    “We are offering 25,034 flats in the 2014 scheme out of which 22,627 would be one-bed room apartments. Among others, 896Read More