Ratan Tata, chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons, has made an investment in Chinese smartphone-market Xiaomi.  Xiaomi’s International Vice-President Hugo Barra, first made the announcement on his Google Plus page. Lei Jun, founder and CEO of Xiaomi, said in a press ....

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 ....

The Kerala unit of Trinamool Congress is organizing the migrant workers from North India, particularly those from Bengal. A state government survey last year said Kerala has around 25 lakh migrant workers, mainly employed in the construction industry. Of them, 20 per cen ....

The second phase of the West Bengal municipal polls was overshadowed by the strong earthquake that hit around noon taking a toll of five lives. The quake hit when voting was picking up in different booths along with the rising tempers. But the natural calamity brought pa ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said India will make all efforts to help the people of quake-hit Nepal and wipe their tears in this hour of crisis, giving priority to saving lives of those who might be buried under the debris. He said a number of rescue teams alon ....

More than 100 tourists from Gujarat are feared to be stranded in Nepal which was hit by a massive earthquake on Saturday. The state government has set up a special control room in Gandhinagar with helpline numbers 079-23251900, 23251902 and 23251908. “We are rec ....

The Jammu and Kashmir government has booked separatist leader Masarat Alam under the stringent Public Safety Act and shifted him out of the Valley to a jail in Jammu. The PSA allows detention of a person for two years without an appearance in court. The reports of Alam b ....