India

Lucknow, Aug 30: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is one of the few politicians in the country to perpetually wear a smile. Be it the loss in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls when he was chief minister or the failure of the party to make a comeback at the centre in 2009, the 63-year-old former physics lecturer does not let politics affect his disposition. The last few days, however, seem to have

Kolkata, Aug 30: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said she was not at all worried about the BJP gaining foothold in West Bengal, claiming that a new leadership which believes in riots has come up in the saffron party sidelining veteran leaders like L K Advani and M M Joshi "Now a new regime has come in the BJP which believes in riots and not in politics. They have sidelined veteran

Lucknow, Aug 30: For 10 years, 29-year-old Ram Pal was a practicing Christian, but three days ago he converted and become a Hindu. The change in faith, however, has not tangibly altered his life as the struggle to make ends meet and the worry about the future of his children continue unabated. Despite converting to Christianity in 2001, seven Valmiki families in Asroi village were not accorded

Tokyo, Aug 30: Japan and India both have much to gain from a visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and more than a dozen Indian steel, energy and IT tycoons that begins on Saturday in the ancient capital of Kyoto. The two countries have complementary economies, given Japan's wealth and technological prowess and India's natural resources and drive to modernize its economy. So far, though, they have

New Delhi, Aug 29: Former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran, his brother Kalanidhi Maran and six others, including four companies, were today chargesheeted by the CBI in a special court in the Aircel-Maxis deal case arising out of the investigation in the 2G spectrum allocation scam. Besides the Maran brothers, the CBI has named Malaysian business tycoon T Ananda Krishnan, Ralph Marshall, a top

New Delhi, Aug 29: Minorities affairs minister Najma Heptullah who has created a huge political outcry after she was quoted as saying that she saw nothing wrong with the RSS theory that all Indians can be called Hindus, has now clarified to say that she meant 'Hindi' and not 'Hindu'. “Anything beyond the Hindu Kush mountains and on this side of the Sindh river is Hind. In Persian, they call it

New Delhi, Aug 29: After SpiceJet launched its festive season sale offering tickets at Rs 1,888, the newest entrant into the low-cost carrier space AirAsia India is offering promotional fares starting at Rs 600 on advance tickets booked until 31 August. On its website, the airline is offering the promotional fares on tickets booked till 31 August to fly between 26 October, 2014 and 24 October

New Delhi, Aug 29: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the probe into allegations of sexual harassment by a former Gwalior district judge against a sitting judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. The composition of the committee, set up by the Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court, was objected to by the woman judge saying that it included a judge who had transferred her out of Gwalior. An

New Delhi, Aug 28: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday kicked off his government’s ambitious financial inclusion plan here, which on the first day itself handed out a bank account each to 1.5 crore poor households across the country along with an accident insurance of Rs 1,00,000 and a life cover of Rs 1,30,000. Launching what is billed as the largest ever banking programme so far, named “Jan

New Delhi, Aug 28: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched his government's mega scheme 'Jan Dhan Yojana', declaring that it was aimed at eradicating financial untouchability by providing bank accounts to the poor. On the inaugural day, a record 1.5 crore bank accounts were opened across the country, the largest such exercise on a single day possibly anywhere in the world. Unveiling the scheme