Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Wednesday that India needed to grow by an additional 1-1.5 per cent for the government to bear the burden of wage increase and welfare benefits. He was speaking at a felicitation function organised by the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sa ....

A day after two senior civil service officers of the Home Department were suspended by the AAP government for refusing to sign on a Cabinet decision file, around 200 DANICS officers went on mass leave while 70 IAS officers have gone on half-day leave, showing solidarity ....

A female contractual staffer was raped on the Infosys campus here on December 27. Two persons have been arrested.   The incident came to light only on Tuesday after the employee filed a complaint with the Hinjewadi police. The woman works as a cashier in one of t ....

Students of Keshava Reddy school had a close shave on Wednesday morning when one of their school buses was hit by an RTC bus. According to sources, a heavy transport vehicle hit an RTC bus which in turn hit the school bus resulting in the injury of six children. Three of ....

Born on March 10, 1929 in Vengurla, Sindhudurg district in Maharashtra, he received a Master of Arts degree in Marathi and Sanskrit from the University of Bombay. He taught Marathi at Ruia College for some years, and then served as an editor at the U.S. Information S ....

As Mr. Modi came down from an Indian Air Force aircraft at the Allama Iqbal Airport, lining up on either side of the red carpet were men of the Pakistan Air Force. With traditional Heckler & Koch G3 rifle mounted with a six-inch bayonet, the personnel stood on eithe ....

After the Delhi government appointed the panel under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952, former Solicitor-General Gopal Subramanium, who heads the Commission, has stated that its terms of reference had set out to obtain a “level of fairness and objectivity&rdquo ....

The passionate Chennaite in A.R. Rahman is coming together with the passion he’s more known for — his music — to revive Tamil Nadu just recovering from the absolute devastation caused by the floods earlier this month. In a freewheeling chat, at a rare m ....

“That’s like a statesman. Padosi se aise hi rishte hone chahiyen (This is how it should be with neighbours),” Ms. Swaraj tweeted. Mr. Modi on Friday made a surprise announcement of a stopover in Lahore as he wrapped up his brief Afghanistan visit. ....

Mr. Yechury also notes that strengthening the organisation becomes “all the more important given the concerted attack by … rightwing reactionary elements against the CPI(M), particularly in our stronghold of West Bengal, through the politics of terror and i ....