Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Thursday said that country’s foodgrain production is estimated to rise by nine per cent to an all-time high of 135.03 million tonnes in the 2016-17 ‘kharif’ (summer sowing) season with record output of rice and pulses following a good monsoon. According to the first advance estimate of foodgrain […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday expressed surprise that at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi should be focussing on the Uri terror attack, his machinery was targeting the AAP. “I am amazed at a time when PM should be working on Uri, his machinery is working overtime to get AAP MLAs arrested […]
The first meeting of the newly-constituted Goods and Services Tax Council, with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley as chairman, is scheduled for two days from Thursday amid high expectations that the country will see a new indirect tax scheme in place from April 1, 2017, as targeted. Among the items on the meeting’s agenda is the […]
FMCG company Hindustan Unilever Ltd on Tuesday said it is already rolling out environment-friendly hydrocarbon refrigerants in India to help reduce hydrofluorocarbons (HFC) emissions. “We are already rolling out environment-friendly freezer cabinets that use hydrocarbon (HC) refrigerants,” the company said in a statement. Hindustan Unilver also sought to refute the Environmental Investigation Agency’s (EIA) September […]
At least eight militants were killed when Indian soldiers fired on a group of infiltrators trying to cross over from Pakistan at the Line of Control (LoC) under the cover of Pakistani firing in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, two days after a massive terror strike killed 18 soldiers in the garrison town of Uri. […]
The Indian equity markets opened flat on Tuesday on the back of negative global cues and caution ahead of major global financial events. Both the key indices traded on a flat-to-negative note during the early morning trade session, as selling pressure was witnessed in stocks of banking and consumer durables. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of […]
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has formally launched a probe into the murder of journalist Rajdeo Ranjan, a police officer said on Saturday. According to the officer, they have handed over all the documents related to the case to an eight-member CBI team, which reached Bihar’s Siwan district on Friday. The premier investigation agency […]
Navy Chief Sunil Lanba said on Saturday that preliminary investigation into the Scorpene data leak shows that it did not happen in India but in the DCNS office in France. “There is a high level committee which is inquiring into the Scorpene leak on our side. Similarly in France, DCNS and the French government have […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, marking his 66th birthday in the presence of over 11,000 disabled people here, asked if any of his predecessors had ever marked an occasion like this. The Prime Minister’s birthday celebration in the agricultural city of south Gujarat marked world records for the most number of people fitted with hearing aids, […]
A fresh squabble broke out between the Delhi government and the LG office on Saturday as Water Minister Kapil Mishra alleged that Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung had “refused” to meet him and Health Minister Satyendar Jain — which was promptly denied by the LG office. Mishra said that he along with Jain had gone to […]