India

New Delhi, Jun 1: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the Centre's ban on sale and purchase of cattle from animal markets for slaughter has nothing to do with state legislations on animal slaughtering. The animal markets are meant for farmers and not for traders, he said, adding that "this is the only effect of the notification". Last week the Environment Ministry notified the stringent

Mumbai, Jun 1: Amruta Fadnavis, the banker wife of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, has demanded exemption from levying the GST on sanitary napkins prepared by Self Help Groups (SHGs). There is a raging debate about making sanitary napkins tax free, which are set to be taxed at 12 per cent under the upcoming tax regime. Recently, the women's wing of the NCP launched a signature

New Delhi, Jun 1: Several factors including the global situation were responsible for decline in GDP growth to 6.1 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2016-17, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said today, dismissing suggestions that it was on account of demonetisation. The minister further said some slowdown was visible even prior to demonetisation of Rs 500/1000 currency notes announced by the

Chandigarh, Jun 1: Going by the recent controversial auction of sand mines in Punjab, a truckload of sand in the state may cost around Rs 3 lakh. That's the arithmetic if successful bidders have to break-even to recover the high price they have paid to bag these sand mines. Consider this: Bidders of the controversial sand mining site in Saidpur pledged a fortune, after which it went down under the

New Delhi, Jun 1: The two pilots of the Sukhoi jet that had crashed after taking off from Tezpur in Assam suffered fatal injuries, the Indian Air Force on Wednesday said five days after the wreckage of the plane was found. Squadron Leader D Pankaj, 36, and flight Lieutenant S Achudev, 26, could not initiate ejection from the plane's cockpit before the crash that occurred 60 kms from Tezpur Airbase

New Delhi, Jun 1: Two terrorists were killed in a brief encounter with security forces in Sopore town of north Kashmir's Baramulla district on Thursday, police said. The gunfight took place around 3: 30 am. Officials said that a joint party of police and Army's 21 Rashtriya Rifles launched a search operation after inputs about presence of terrorists in Natipora village of Sopore, some 70 km from

New Delhi, May 31: India's economic growth slowed to 7.1 per cent in 2016-17, the year in which 87 per cent of the currency was demonetised, despite a very good showing by the agricultural sector. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was 6.1 per in the January-March quarter, the immediate three months after the demonetisation was affected on November 9, 2016. The GDP, as per the new series with base

New Delhi, May 31: High drama prevailed at the Delhi Assembly today when a few AAP MLAs and sacked minister Kapil Mishra came to blows as the latter held out a banner with allegations of corruption against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Party MLAs, including Madan Lal, Jarnail Singh, were seen lunging at Mishra and dragging him as he raised a poster referring to the allegations, before Speaker

Ayodhya, May 31: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today offered prayers at the makeshift Ram temple here on his first visit to the town after taking charge. The visit assumes significance as it comes a day after criminal conspiracy charges were framed against top BJP leaders in the Babri mosque demolition case. The UP chief minister, who arrived here this morning, spent around 30

Patna, May 31: The results of the Bihar board class 12 intermediate was declared on Tuesday and a whopping 64 percent of students failed in examination, thanks to the successful conduct of a cheating-free examination. Only 30.11 per cent of students passed the test in the Science stream as the results, declared by the Bihar School Examination Board Chairman Anand Kishore, showed. The results were