India

Guwahati, Jul 13: The Army was called for assistance in Assam as the flood situation in the state worsened on Friday with the toll rising to six and affecting nearly 8.7 lakh people across 21 districts. Officials said the Army's assistance was sought in Baksa district to aid the personnel of National Disaster Response Force and State Disaster Response Force in rescuing marooned people. Assam State

Panaji, Jul 13: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said late on Friday night that he would reshuffle the cabinet on Saturday replacing four ministers and the swearing-in ceremony would be held at 3 pm. Ten Congress MLAs had on Wednesday joined the BJP increasing the strength of the party to 27 on the floor of the House. The chief minister said the three members from coalition partner Goa Forward

Bengaluru, Jul 12: India has given itself achievable targets for its tax collections, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in an interview here to news daily Hindustan Times, adding that goods and services tax (GST) collections could "absolutely" move higher. India expects to rake in 24.6 trillion rupees (USD 358.97 billion) in gross tax revenue in 2019-20. Sitharaman, in her maiden budget

United Nations, Jul 12: India lifted 271 million people out of poverty between 2006 and 2016, recording the fastest reductions in the multidimensional poverty index values during the period with strong improvements in areas such as "assets, cooking fuel, sanitation and nutrition," a report by the United Nations said. The 2019 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) from the UN Development

Jolarpettai, Jul 12: Indian authorities on Thursday filled tanks with water and loaded them onto a train in Tamil Nadu to supply its manufacturing capital Chennai where reservoirs have run dry. Technicians in the railway station at Jolarpettai, located over 217 km from Chennai, worked from early on Thursday to fill fifty wagons with 50,000 litres of water each, sourced from a south Indian river

Bengaluru, Jul 11: India’s market regulator is probing whether InterGlobe Aviation Ltd Chief Executive Officer Ronojoy Dutta downplayed the tussle between the promoters of the country’s largest carrier IndiGo, ET Now reported on Thursday, citing sources. The spat between co-founders and promoters Rakesh Gangwal and Rahul Bhatia escalated after Gangwal on Tuesday alleged violations of corporate

Mumbai, Jul 11: The Bombay High Court on Thursday dismissed a plea of beleaguered liquor baron Vijay Mallya seeking a stay on the procedure for the confiscation of his properties by the government agencies in connection with Rs 9,000 crore money laundering and fraud case. A division bench of Justices Akil Kureshi and S J Kathawala refused to grant any relief to 63-year-old Mallya. In his petition

Panaji, Jul 11: In a major coup, the BJP in Goa late on Wednesday engineered a split in the 15-member Congress legislature party and inducted the 10-member splinter group headed by the leader of opposition Chandrakant Kavlekar into the BJP. Kavlekar has blamed disunity among senior Congress leaders in Goa and lack of development in the Opposition MLAs’ constituencies as some of the reasons for

New Delhi, Jul 11: The CBI is carrying out searches at the offices of Lawyers Collective, an NGO run by noted lawyer Anand Grover, officials said on Thursday. The searches are understood to be taking place at the Delhi and Mumbai offices of the NGO, they said. Officials did not give any details of locations where searches are going on, they said. Grover, husband of former Additional Solicitor

New Delhi, Jul 10: A non-profit organization engaged in promoting financial literacy has moved the Supreme Court, alleging cheating, especially of senior citizens, by the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) through its Jeevan Saral policy, in which nearly 5 crore policy holders have "lost a big chunk on their principal investment". The Mumbai-based Moneylife Foundation said it has received several