Promising a business friendly environment to woo foreign investments, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today made it clear that retrospective tax will not be imposed and that taxation policy has to be “non-adversarial”. “Our Taxation process has to be simp ....

Indian airlines have slashed last-minute fares by half on the Delhi-Kathmandu sector and mounted additional relief flights to aid evacuation of stranded travellers in Nepal in the aftermath of the worst earthquake the country has seen in 80 years. Air India has reduced t ....

As the Narendra Modi government nears completion of its first year in office, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is gearing up to switch to agitation mode. After nearly a year of inactivity, Rahul is set to embark on a series of padayatras from next month. Ever since t ....

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday said he has written to Congress president Sonia Gandhi seeking an appointment to request her to act against Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh for “hatching a conspiracy” to malign him and his ....

Did Kolkata Knight Riders know beforehand that Sunil Narine would be called again? Captain Gautam Gambhir’s comment regarding his premier off-spinner’s recent travails had a tinge of sarcasm, but it ended in adding to the curiosity. “Most of us knew, ev ....

India’s Test captain Virat Kohli feels that it will be difficult to replace someone like Mahendra Singh Dhoni but Wriddhiman Saha according to him “deserves” to don the big gloves for the national team for the “next five to six years”. Asked ....

Synopsis: Malinga sizzles and Mitch hustles to eclipse Sunrisers after Simmons’ opening gambit. Malinga sizzles There’s a bit of the theatrical about most things that Lasith Malinga does on a cricket field. And we’re not just talking about that bowli ....

Chennai Super Kings thrashed Kings XI Punjab by a huge margin of 97 runs in Chennai on Saturday, extracting a sweet revenge for a string of three losses to them in the last season of the Indian Premier League. Brendon McCullum (66 off 44 balls) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni ( ....

Iraqi officials say two bombings, one near a marketplace and the other near a courthouse, have killed seven people. Police officials say the first of Friday’s attacks took place in the morning, when a bomb exploded near an outdoor market in the Sunni town of Tarmiy ....

President Barack Obama joked about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Hillary Rodham Clinton and others as he headlined the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with some stand-up comedy. His performance Saturday night raised money for scho ....