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Hangzhou, Sep 5: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today made it clear that effective financial governance requires "full commitment" to act against the corrupt and elimination of "safe havens" for economic offenders as he called on G20 members to break down the web of excessive banking secrecy. In his intervention on the second day of the G20 Summit in this east Chinese city, Modi said fighting

Bengaluru, Sep 5: Vijayanagar MLA M Krishnappa, a big-time land developer, will be inducted into Siddaramaiah's cabinet on Monday. According to Congress sources, Krishnappa's induction comes in the backdrop of pressure being mounted by Vokkaliga leaders to increase representation to the community in the government. "With two Vokkaliga ministers - MH Ambareesh and Kimmane Ratnakar - having been

The entry of Reliance Jio to the telecom market signals a paradigm shift heralding the arrival of the digital era and making voice telephony a mere byproduct. Recent projections are that as the price of data falls from about Rs 228 per GB as on 2016 to about Rs 66 per GB in 2020, led by the windfall price-cut offers from Jio, the mobile broadband penetration is slated to increase from the current

Srinagar, Sep 4: Separatist leaders on Sunday rebuffed attempts by five opposition members of the all-party delegation to reach out to them as they refused to talk to them, with hardline leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani even refusing to meet them. Four MPs — CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, CPI leader D. Raja, JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav and RJD’s Jay Prakash Narayan — went to meet Mr. Geelani

Hangzhou, Sep 4: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that sainthood for Mother Teresa is a "memorable and proud moment", after her canonisation at the Vatican. "Sainthood of Mother Teresa is a memorable & proud moment," Modi, who is in this east Chinese city for the G20 Summit, said in a tweet. In the same tweet, he also shared a link to the video of his 'Mann Ki Baar' radio address to the

Meerut, Sep 4: In yet another heart-rending incident, a woman ran from one hospital to another with her daughter's body and was forced to spend a night outside the emergency wing of the district hospital with the dead child after ambulance drivers allegedly refused to take them to their village as it was in another district. It comes just days after the disturbing incident reflecting hospital

Srinagar, Sep 4: A day after Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti invited them to meet the all-party delegation, the separatist leaders today said it cannot be an alternative to a transparent, agenda-based dialogue to address the "core" issue. One "fails to understand" what hope to attach with a delegation which has not "spelled out its mandate for any engagement on a clear agenda"

Hangzhou, Sep 3: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today flew into this Chinese city for the crucial G20 summit and talks with top world leaders, including one with Chinese President Xi Jinping on irritants in bilateral ties like India's NSG bid and the CPEC, which runs through PoK. Modi, who reached here after a two-day maiden visit to Hanoi, begins his programme tomorrow morning by holding talks with

New Delhi, Sep 3: A day before demitting office, Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan today said the RBI's ability to say 'no' to highest echelons of government has to be protected as the country needs a strong and independent central bank. Delivering a lecture on 'independence of the central bank' at the St. Stephens College here, the outgoing governor said the central bank cannot be free of all

Fatehgarh Sahib (Pb), Sep 3: In fresh trouble for Bhagwant Mann, the AAP's Sangrur MP was today booked along with some of his party activists by Punjab Police on a complaint alleging that they had misbehaved with mediapersons at a rally in Bassi Pathana here. "After receiving the report of the DSP to whom an inquiry had been marked and after getting legal opinion in this regard, we registered a