The kid who spotted the mistakes in a balance sheet of his dad’s company as a nine-year-old has become the youngest Chartered Accountant in the country at just 19. Nischal Narayanam, who is hailed as a mathematical genius, has cleared the CA exam recently and is sa ....

Reacting strongly to the Opposition stalling Parliament, the party said that it was not being allowed to reply to the allegations and charges being against its leaders outside Parliament. “Why should anyone resign when there is no truth in the charges? And why ....

At the centre of this controversy are Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, the former seen as the most liberal face of the government; the latter, a former BJP president, and perceived to be a RSS favourite. For instance, the pro ....

The revised draft of the Indian Financial Code, put out by the Union Finance Ministry for comments, proposes that the Reserve Bank “Chairperson” shall head the committee, with no reference to the Governor. It is not clear from the draft if a re-designation i ....

10: 10 am: The party MPs went on a protest near the Gandhi statue at Parliament House in the morning. Earlier, party spokesman M.J. Akbar accused the Congress of indulging in “smear politics’’ and not looking at corruption in its backyard. Taking ....

In the Lok Sabha, several Opposition MPs sported black bands in protest and also held up placards. When they continued to hold them up despite directions from the Chair not to do so, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan warned the Congress and TRS MPs of disciplinary actio ....

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has rejected IFS officer Devyani Khobragade’s plea for dual citizenship for her two daughters who are U.S. nationals, saying Indian law does not allow this. Ms. Khobragade, who was arrested in the U.S. in 2013 when she was India&r ....

The brother of Ibrahim alias Tiger Memon, the chief conspirator of the 13 blasts which hit the country’s commercial capital, Yakub Memon, 53, is lodged in the Nagpur Central Jail and will be the first and only accused in the case to go the gallows. Tiger, 52, i ....

In its report submitted to the House, the committee, headed by Bhupender Yadav of the BJP, said that to start with, the GST rate should not go beyond 20 per cent as standard rate and 14 per cent as reduced rate. It agreed with the demand of parties such as the Trinamool ....

At the BJP parliamentary party meeting, party president Amit Shah told his colleagues that they need not take their cue from the media that had targeted its top leaders, currently embroiled in cases relating to acts of impropriety and corruption. The party had not come ....