India

Dubai, Feb 8: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that India's energy security and infrastructural investments from the UAE will be the key topics of his discussions with the Gulf nation's top leadership this week. In an interview to Gulf News' XPRESS ahead of his two-day visit to the United Arab Emirates from Saturday, Modi said that he will meet Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice

New Delhi, Feb 8: "Rahul Gandhi (Congress chief) now my boss too, let there be no doubt about that," Sonia Gandhi today told Congress parliamentarians. Rahul Gandhi took over as party president in December. Sonia Gandhi, 71, was Congress president for 19 years before she handed over the party's reins to Rahul Gandhi. "He is now my boss too-let there be no doubt about that - and I know that all of

In a fresh embarrassment to Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the Centre, Giriraj Singh, Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, has been booked in a case of land grabbing along with 32 others in Danapur of Patna district. On the direction of the Patna Civil court an FIR (NO: 54 / 2018) was lodged at the Danapur police station, on the outskirts of Patna against Mr. Singh

New Delhi, Feb 8: The Centre is in the process of linking driving licenses with Aadhaar number to weed out fake licenses and a software for this covering all states on a real time basis is under preparation, the Supreme Court was told today. A bench comprising Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta was informed about it by a court-appointed committee on road safety headed by former Supreme Court

New Delhi, Feb 8: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its monetary policy announcement on Wednesday kept key interest rates at hold, but its observations on Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rates (MCLR) may bring cheers to Pre-April 2016 home loan borrowers. The home loan rates of the Pre-April 2016 have not been revised by banks in line with market rates. These home loan borrowers, who were

London, Feb 7: Britain's Prince Charles has launched a new 10-million-dollar Development Impact Bond (DIB) to help improve education for over 200,000 children in India. The DIB, the largest bond of its type in South Asia, is the latest fundraising initiative by the British Asian Trust (BAT), set up by the royal 10 years ago to fight poverty in South Asia. "We are launching a 10-million-dollar

New Delhi, Feb 7: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched a scathing attack on the Congress saying while it still wanted an "old India" marked by Emergency, scams and violence against Sikhs, while his party wanted to create a 'New India'. He also sought the opposition's cooperation in the passage of the OBC Bill and the triple talaq bill, besides holding a constructive discussion on holding

New Delhi, Feb 7: The Supreme Court today quashed the second renewal of iron ore mining leases given to 88 companies in Goa in 2015. The top court directed the centre and the Goa government to grant fresh environmental clearances to them. It said the state government was obliged to grant fresh mining leases in accordance with law, in view of its previous judgement, and not second renewals to

New Delhi, Feb 7: Congress president Rahul Gandhi today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi needs to answer the country on questions posed to him on the Rafale deal, farmers and jobs instead of making allegations in Parliament. He seems to have forgotten that he is the prime minister not an opposition leader, Gandhi told reporters after Modi's reply in the Lok Sabha to the motion of thanks on the

New Delhi, Feb 7: Reviving an old tradition of the party, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday interacted with delegations of its leaders and workers from across the country at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters here. According to party sources, Gandhi came to the party headquarters at Akbar Road here at around 9:15 am and met delegations of workers from various states