India

Ahmedabad, Nov 15: Former finance minister and BJP leader Yashwant Sinha taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over demonetisation, said even the 14th century Delhi sultan, Muhammad bin Tughlaq, had implemented note ban 700 years ago. Criticising Modi for the controversial move, Sinha at a function here claimed that demonetisation had hit the economy to the tune of Rs 3.75 lakh crore.

Lucknow, Nov 14: After getting his office at the sprawling secretariat annexe building painted in saffron colour, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has turned his attention towards the text books. According to sources in the government, the cover pages of the text books for classes up to 8th standard would be coloured saffron from next academic session. The Basic Education Department

Ahmedabad, Nov 14: Patidar quota leader Hardik Patel got embroiled in a controversy on Monday as two sex video clips allegedly showing him with a woman went viral on social media. About 10 days ago, Hardik had predicted that a doctored sex CD would be out soon to defame him. "Soon they will release my sex CD. Enjoy, keep watching," Hardik had said. The video clips, showing recording of the night

Chennai, Nov 14: After repeated raids by Income Tax officers at several premises linked to jailed AIADMK leader VK Sasikala and her kin, including TTV Dinakaran, a whopping Rs 1,430 crore in undisclosed income was recovered. I-T officers on Monday said the department had on last Thursday carried out simultaneous multi-city raids on 187 premises including those linked to Sasikala and her nephew and

Manila, Nov 13: The task of transforming India is proceeding on an “unprecedented scale,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the powerful ASEAN grouping on Monday while hardselling his government’s economic reform initiatives to boost trade and investment. Addressing the ASEAN Business Forum in the Philippines capital, the Prime Minister said most sectors of the Indian economy were opened up for

Mumbai, Nov 13: The Malaysian Budget carrier AirAsia today announced a discount sale, offering passengers one-way base fare at Rs 99 for a domestic journey across its Indian JV airline network and Rs 444 for international flights under a limited period offer. However, the travel period under the offer, for which the bookings commence tonight, will be between May next year and January 2019, as per

New Delhi, Nov 12: The Supreme Court will hear a review petition of one of the convicts in the Nirbhaya gangrape case on Monday. The review petition was moved through Advocate ML Sharma, by Mukesh, who is one of the four convicts sentenced to death. In May, a Supreme court bench, headed by Justice Dipak Misra and consisting of Justices R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan, had upheld the High Court's

Bhopal, Nov 12: The Congress today won the Chitrakoot Assembly by-poll in Madhya Pradesh with its candidate Nilanshu Chaturvedi defeating his nearest BJP rival Shankar Dayal Tripathi by a margin of 14,133 votes. While Chaturvedi polled 66,810 votes, Tripathi got 52,677 votes, returning officer A P Dwivedi said. The counting of votes polled in the November 9 by-election began at around 8 am amid

Noida, Nov 11: Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Saturday said debit and credit cards as well as ATMs will be redundant in next three-four years and people will use their mobile phones for financial transactions. He further said that with India being a country where 72 % population is below 32 years of age, it will have an advantage over other regions like the US and Europe in terms of demographic

New Delhi, Nov 12: In the emergency ward of a Delhi hospital, men and women gasp for breath as they wait to be treated for symptoms triggered by the choking blanket of smog that descended on the city this week. Doctors at the government-run Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute say patient numbers have more than tripled since pollution levels spiked amid a change in weather conditions and the annual