India

New Delhi, Sep 6: State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has termed Reliance Jio 's entry into the market as a "challenge" for all operators, but said it expects to match the intense competition "tariff-by-tariff". BSNL chairman and managing director Anupam Shrivastava told PTI that the telecom PSU will adopt an aggressive stance on tariffs going forward. BSNL, which unveiled a promotional unlimited

New Delhi, Sep 6: In an unprecedented move, 15 joint secretaries serving in the MHA today met Home Minister Rajnath Singh and urged him to reconsider the decision to suspend senior IAS officer G K Dwivedi for renewal of FCRA licence of controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik's NGO. They conveyed to the Home Minister that Dwivedi, who was serving as Joint Secretary (Foreigners) in the Home

Deoria, Sep 6: Chaos struck a gathering Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi addressed on Monday after people carried home cots the party had organised for a ‘khat sabha’ before launching a ‘kisan yatra’ in election-bound Uttar Pradesh. Around 1,000 cots had been arranged for the event in Deoria’s Rudrapur district. There was no official announcement by the Congress about their distribution to the

Mumbai, Sep 6: A special women's court today convicted Ankur Lal Panwar for murder in connection with the Preeti Rathi acid attack case. Special Judge A S Shende convicted Panwar under Sections 302(murder) and 326B (Voluntarily throwing acid) of the IPC and is likely to hear arguments on the quantum of sentence tomorrow. Rathi, who hailed from Delhi, had died of multiple organ failure after hotel

Srinagar, Sep 6: Curfew was today lifted from entire Srinagar city following improvement in the situation even as the death toll in the clashes between security forces and protestors climbed to 72 with a youth succumbing to injuries. Musaib Nagoo, who was injured during clashes between protestors and security forces on Sunday in Sopore town of Baramulla district, succumbed to injuries at a

New Delhi, Sep 6: Sharing his experience in politics of India post-Independence, PresidentPranab Mukherjee on Monday said that India is currently a victim of cross-border terrorism and not a homegrown one. He said homegrown terrorism is the biggest menace in the world today, but India has been broadly spared from it. Mukherjee said: "We certainly face attack but from cross-border terrorism

New Delhi, Sep 6: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will be away from the national capital for nearly a fortnight for a throat surgery and to take stock of AAP's preparations in poll-bound Punjab. He will undergo the surgery on September 13 to cure his chronic cough problem. He will take a 10-day rest there. "Before leaving for Bengaluru, the CM will embark on a 4-day visit to Punjab starting

Hangzhou, Sep 6: In an apparent reference to Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that one single nation in South Asia was spreading agents of terror in the region. "Indeed one single nation in South Asia is spreading these agents of terror in countries of our region," PM Modi said. Speaking at the G20 Summit in China, PM Modi urged the international community to act in unity and

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