India

Jan 12: Close on the heels of BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav's "revelations" about the way soldiers are treated at the border, a CRPF constable posted at Mount Abu has alleged disparity in service conditions among security forces. A video that surfaced on Wednesday shows the constable, Jeet Singh from Sahjua Thok village in Mathura district, asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resolve the matter

New Delhi, Jan 12: The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a plea seeking to allow the controversial sport Jallikattu played during Pongal festival in Tamil Nadu. The Supreme Court while turning down the plea that sought its intervention in passing judgment on Jalikattu in two days, said that it is "unfair to ask the bench to pass order". "The draft of the judgement has been prepared but it's not

New Delhi, Jan 12: The Supreme Court on Thursday turned down a plea seeking its intervention to pass judgment on bull taming sport Jallikattu before Saturday. "Unfair to ask bench to pass order", said the apex court. The court also said the draft of Jallikattu judgement has been prepared but not possible to deliver it before Saturday. The Tamil Nadu governemnt has mounted pressure for promulgation

Washington/Ottawa, Jan 12: Amazon.com removed doormats resembling the Indian tri-colour flag from its Canadian website on Wednesday, after an Indian government threat to rescind visas of the US company's employees if they did not stop selling the product."Amazon must tender unconditional apology," external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said on Twitter. "They must withdraw all products insulting

New Delhi, Jan 11: The Supreme Court today rejected plea for a court-monitored SIT probe into bribery allegations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the basis of documents seized during the raids in business houses--Sahara and Birla-- on the ground they had no no evidentiary value. The case based on "random materials" like loose sheets, papers, e-mail print outs is "merit less" as they are

New Delhi, Jan 11: Congress Vice-president Rahul Gandhi slammed the BJP government on the issue of demonetisation at Jan Vedna Sammelan in New Delhi. Rahul Gandhi alleged that BJP, RSS and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have weakened institutions like RBI. Also, the Gandhi scion labelled demonetisation as a personal decision of PM Modi. 'Achhe din' would come when Congress returns to power in 2019

Gandhinagar, Jan 11: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today reiterated that the Centre is still aiming to roll out the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime from April 1 if all pending issues are sorted out. GST, which is to subsume most of central and state taxes like excise, service tax and VAT, needs to roll out by latest September 16, 2017, he said. This because, under the Constitutional Amendment

New Delhi, Jan 10: Contrary to popular belief, it was the Government which had "advised" the Reserve Bank to junk Rs 500/1000 notes on November 7 and the board of the central bank the very next day recommended the demonetisation. In a 7-page note to the Parliament's Department-Related Committee of Finance headed by Congress leader M Veerappa Moily, the RBI stated that the Government had on

New Delhi, Jan 10: In yet another case of discrimination against people from the North-East, a group of students from a university in Manipur were allegedly stopped from entering the Taj Mahal by CISF personnel. The incident took place on Sunday at around 3:30 pm. The students of the Central Agricultural University in Imphal had gone to visit the monument as part of an all-India educational tour

Washington, Jan 10: Mumbai-born Ashley Tellis, a former White House official and renowned India expert, could be appointed the next US ambassador to New Delhi by President- elect Donald Trump who is preparing his own pivot to Asia policy, a media report said. According to Washington Post, Trump’s Asia appointments are outpacing those for other regions and include top Asia hands. Transition sources