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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government posted a 23.25 percent growth in its tax revenue in the first eight months of the current 2015-16 fiscal, collecting Rs.13,483.79 crore as against Rs.10,932.92 crore in the like period of...

New Delhi: Bureaucrat and Magsaysay awardee Sanjiv Chaturvedi will donate his award money of $30,000 to the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund after failing to deposit it into the account of the All India Institute...

Dushanbe: A powerful earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale shook Tajikistan on Monday, the USGS said. The epicentre of the quake was 109 km west of Murghob, Tajikistan. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) put...

Islamabad: Pakistan will push for inclusion of eight more of its sites in the list of Unesco’s world heritage sites. “These sites are of national and cultural universal importance, and will attract tourists from across...

New Delhi: A strong and independent judiciary was capable of protecting people from attacks on the inclusive values of Indian society, Chief Justice T.S. Thakur said on Sunday. “As the head of the institution that...

New Delhi: Chief Justice Tirath Singh Thakur on Sunday said Supreme Court judges want to help in curbing the alarming level of air pollution in the national capital and he won’t mind boarding a bus...

Kolkata: India’s research output has grown steadily since 2012, showing stronger CAGR of 8 percent than other countries with comparable output and economic conditions, a latest analytics report said on Thursday. However, on the flip...

Bollywood legend Dilip Kumar has been hospitalised once again, for the second time this month.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled the Tamil Nadu government has no suo moto power to grant remission and release the convicts accused of conspiracy in the assassination case of former prime minister...

Kolkata: Charging the opposition with making baseless charges against the BJP to create fear among the minorities, union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday said that CPI-M’s Lok Sabha member Mohammad Salim should either prove his...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said it is easy to get divided but instead opportunities must be sought to united. Concluding the debate in the Rajya Sabha to mark the 125th birth...

Mumbai: Former media baron Peter Mukerjea, one of the prime accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, was on Tuesday sent to judicial custody till December 14 by a special court here. Mukerjea, charged with...

New Delhi: The price of non-subsidised cooking gas cylinder a consumer buys on exhausting the subsidy quota, was hiked by Rs.61.50 per cylinder on Tuesday while aviation turbine fuel (ATF) rates were marginally reduced by...

Mumbai: The growth of India’s manufacturing economy dropped to its lowest in the past 25 months, mainly on account of a slower expansion of new business and overall output, according to a leading global business...

New Delhi: A purported comment by Home Minister Rajnath Singh that India had got “a Hindu ruler after 800 years” in Prime Minister Narendra Modi triggered turmoil in the Lok Sabha on Monday. As the...

New Delhi: The Indian economy grew 7.4 percent in the second quarter ended September, showing some improvement over the 7 percent expansion in the quarter before but a notch lower than the 8.4 percent in...

New Delhi: Admitting “some amount of intolerance” exists in the society, Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu said in the Rajya Sabha on Monday that the issues need to be “localised and dealt with firmly”....

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday sent in seven-day police custody BSF head constable Abdul Rasheed arrested on the charge of supplying confidential information to Pakistan’s spy agency ISI. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Khanagwal...

Paris: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday held a brief meeting with Pakistani Premier Nawaz Sharif as world leaders converged here for the Conference of Parties (CoP) climate summit that got underway. “PM @narendramodi meets...

Paris: Outlining India’s target of 175 GW of renewable energy in seven years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday told a global summit on environment that while his country was doing its bit on climate...