India

Mumbai, Mar 15: Ratan Tata and his team faced "humiliation" when they went to sell the group's fledgling car business to Ford in 1999, but came back to "do a big favour" just nine years later by taking over the American giant's marquee brands Jaguar and Land Rover. "They told us 'you do not know anything, why did you start the passenger car division at all'. They said they will do us a favour by

Kochi, Mar 15: In a rare convergence, Kerala's ruling Congress-led UDF and CPI-M headed LDF opposition, at loggerheads on several issues, have come out against the NDA Government's move to impose a nation-wide ban on cow slaughter and beef, dubbing it as an encroachment on personal liberty. Some BJP leaders in Kerala, one of the largest beef consuming states in the country, have sought to justify

New Delhi, Mar 15: The number of women entrepreneurs in India is on the rise and their startups, many of whom are in the booming e-commerce space, are showing the way for gender parity at workplace with some having as much as 50 per cent female staff, according to experts. Women account for nearly half of the employable workforce but not all companies have such high levels of gender parity. As

New Delhi, Mar 15: "I am Acting Chief Minister. I have both the mike and the remote with me."This is what Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said tonight when asked about the absence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and whether the remote control is somewhere else while he is discharging the responsibility of a CM. He said he is concentrating all his energies on running the government

Jaffna, Mar 14: Making a historic visit to a region once ravaged by strife, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called for equitable development and respect for all citizens in Sri Lanka, seen as an oblique reference to Tamils who had suffered during the war between the LTTE and forces. Winding up his public engagements on his two-day trip to the island with a hugely-symbolic visit to Tamil

Colombo, Mar 14: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said global confidence in India has been restored and the world’s engagement with the country is at a “new level” even as he assured Sri Lanka that steps would be taken to address its concerns over the huge bilateral trade imbalance. Mr. Modi said this while asserting that India and Sri Lanka should move “boldly” to conclude a long pending

Chandigarh, Mar 14: The anti-cow slaughter bill mulled by the BJP government in Haryana may have a provision of imprisonment of up to ten years. In the proposed ‘Govansh Sanrakashan and Gau Samvardhan’ (Cow Protection and Cow Conservation and Development) Bill’ efforts will be made to have tough law on cow slaughter and for conservation and better care of indigenous cattle, Haryana’s Health

Colombo, March 13: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said Sri Lanka has the potential to be India's strongest economic partner and it will have the first claim on India in its economic development. Addressing the Sri Lankan parliament, Modi said: "My vision of an ideal neighbourhood is one in which trade, investment and technology flow easily across the border, where partnerships are formed

New Delhi, March 13: As Islamabad High Court on Friday termed the detention of Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the mastermind of 26/11 Mumbai attacks and ordered his release, India said that it Pakistan's responsibility to take all legal measures to ensure that he doesn't come out of jail. Islamabad High Court has ruled that Lakhvi's detention is illegal saying it did not have evidence to prove his

Colombo, Mar 13: India and Sri Lanka on Friday inked four agreements, including on cooperation in customs, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena here. Modi, who arrived here in the morning from Mauritius, was received at the airport by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Later, he was accorded a ceremonial welcome at the presidential secretariat