India

New Delhi, Dec 1: Breaking the Bofors jinx, India and the US inked a nearly Rs 5,000 crore deal for 145 M777 ultra-light howitzers, which will be mostly deployed near the borders with China. This is the first deal for artillery guns since the Bofors scandal in 1980s. "India has today signed the Letter of Acceptance which formalises the contract between India and US for these guns," sources said

New Delhi, Dec 1: With Thursday being the pay day, banks are gearing up to face a huge rush as people will queue up at branches across the country to withdraw salaries amid the ongoing cash crunch following demonetisation. Making matters worse, a large number of ATMs are still dry even 23 days after the government scrapped 500 and 1000 rupee notes earlier this month to crack down on black money

New York, Nov 30: Four leading India-born CEOs including Microsoft's Satya Nadella and Mastercard's Ajay Banga who delivered big in taking their companies ahead have featured in Fortune's Businessperson of the Year list topped by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Nadella has been ranked fifth among 50 global corporate heads by Fortune Magazine in its annual 'Businessperson of the Year' compilation

Pune, Nov 30: The SIT probing the Govind Pansare murder case has filed a supplementary charge sheet against Sanatan Sanstha member Virendra Tawde at a court in Kolhapur. The over 400-page supplementary chargesheet was filed in Kolhapur sessions court yesterday. Tawde, earlier arrested by CBI in the Narendra Dabholkar murder case, was in September taken into custody by Kolhapur police in connection

New Delhi, Nov 30: Opposition today said it is ready for a debate on demonetisation in the Lok Sabha under any rule that entailed voting but the government refused to budge from its stand against division of votes as the impasse in the House continued, causing frequent adjournments. The House saw two adjournments due to the noisy protests before Speaker Sumitra Mahajan called it a day. When the

New Delhi, Nov 30: BJP chief Amit Shah today appointed party MPs Manoj Tiwari and Nityanand Rai as party's Delhi and Bihar unit presidents respectively. While Tiwari replaces Satish Upadhyay, Rai replaces Mangal Pandey. Their tenures were long over and new appointments were awaited for the past few months. Rai is a Yadav, a community over which RJD chief Lalu Prasad has a strong hold. His

Nagrota (J&K), Nov 30:Bravery of the wives of two army officers who were staying in the family quarters helped in averting a major hostage crisis during the encounter that took place in Nagrota area of Jammu today. Soon after the heavily armed terrorists disguised in police uniform entered an army unit located within three kms from the headquarters of the 16 Corps, they wanted to enter the family

New Delhi, Nov 30: The government on Tuesday stunned the Opposition by getting a bill, which seeks to tax unaccounted income up to 85%, passed by the Lok Sabha within 24 hours of its introduction. The Taxation Laws (2nd Amendment) Bill was introduced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley only on Monday in the Lok Sabha, where the ruling NDA enjoys full majority. On Tuesday, the bill was again moved by

Lucknow, Nov 29: Charging the Prime Minister with flouting the constitutional rights of people by bringing in demonetisation, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who today took her protest to Uttar Pradesh, dared him to declare his bank account details before seeking information from other BJP leaders. "Modiji has surpassed (Muhammad bin) Tuglaq and Hitler...he has flouted the

Ahmedabad, Nov 29: In a shot in the arm for BJP after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's demonetisation move and ahead of Gujarat elections next year, the party swept local bodies elections by capturing 107 seats out of total 123 seats which went for polls in different parts of the state. Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani hailed the victory as people's endorsement of Modi's two recent steps -