India

New Delhi, Mar 16: AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal may have inflicted a massive defeat on BJP in Delhi Assembly polls last month, but months earlier Prime Minister Narendra Modi saw him as a "small single city leader" not even worth "my time to ignore". These comments were made by Modi to former BBC journalist Lance Price in July last year explaining his decision not to name Kejriwal during the

Panaji, Mar 15: In a decision that could spark nationwide outrage, the BJP government in Goa has dropped Gandhi Jayanti on October 2 from the list of public holidays. Gandhi Jayanti, the birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation, has not been marked as a holiday in the current year’s calender, released on Saturday. The decision has triggered strong reactions from a section of legislators in

Bengaluru, Mar 15: British filmmaker Leslee Udwin who's controversial documentary India's daughter on the 2012 gang rape victim has been the subject of much talk in the country has claimed that the victim's friend Avanindra Pandey the sole witness to the gruesome incident asked for money to appear in the documentary. The film which was banned by the Indian government, Udwin has called the ban "

Mumbai, Mar 15: Ratan Tata and his team faced "humiliation" when they went to sell the group's fledgling car business to Ford in 1999, but came back to "do a big favour" just nine years later by taking over the American giant's marquee brands Jaguar and Land Rover. "They told us 'you do not know anything, why did you start the passenger car division at all'. They said they will do us a favour by

Kochi, Mar 15: In a rare convergence, Kerala's ruling Congress-led UDF and CPI-M headed LDF opposition, at loggerheads on several issues, have come out against the NDA Government's move to impose a nation-wide ban on cow slaughter and beef, dubbing it as an encroachment on personal liberty. Some BJP leaders in Kerala, one of the largest beef consuming states in the country, have sought to justify

New Delhi, Mar 15: The number of women entrepreneurs in India is on the rise and their startups, many of whom are in the booming e-commerce space, are showing the way for gender parity at workplace with some having as much as 50 per cent female staff, according to experts. Women account for nearly half of the employable workforce but not all companies have such high levels of gender parity. As

New Delhi, Mar 15: "I am Acting Chief Minister. I have both the mike and the remote with me."This is what Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said tonight when asked about the absence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and whether the remote control is somewhere else while he is discharging the responsibility of a CM. He said he is concentrating all his energies on running the government

Jaffna, Mar 14: Making a historic visit to a region once ravaged by strife, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called for equitable development and respect for all citizens in Sri Lanka, seen as an oblique reference to Tamils who had suffered during the war between the LTTE and forces. Winding up his public engagements on his two-day trip to the island with a hugely-symbolic visit to Tamil

Colombo, Mar 14: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said global confidence in India has been restored and the world’s engagement with the country is at a “new level” even as he assured Sri Lanka that steps would be taken to address its concerns over the huge bilateral trade imbalance. Mr. Modi said this while asserting that India and Sri Lanka should move “boldly” to conclude a long pending

Chandigarh, Mar 14: The anti-cow slaughter bill mulled by the BJP government in Haryana may have a provision of imprisonment of up to ten years. In the proposed ‘Govansh Sanrakashan and Gau Samvardhan’ (Cow Protection and Cow Conservation and Development) Bill’ efforts will be made to have tough law on cow slaughter and for conservation and better care of indigenous cattle, Haryana’s Health