India

Jammu/New Delhi, Nov 17: The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), which has been trying to shrug off the 'communal' tag, has fielded nearly 40% Muslim candidates in Jammu and Kashmirassembly polls under its ambitious 'Mission 44 plus' to wrest power in the state. BJP is contesting more than 70 Assembly seats out of 87 and has fielded 32 Muslim candidates. While the saffron party has fielded 25 Muslims in

Brisbane, Nov 17: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today wooed Australian investors to India, saying the environment that is prevailing in the country is "welcoming" and easy to do business, besides having transparent and predictable policies. "You will begin to find a difference in India," Modi said, asserting that his government is focused on eliminating unnecessary laws and regulations, and making

Brisbane, Nov 16: Leaders of the G20 nations on Sunday decided to set up a Global Infrastructure Hub which will help reduce barriers to investment and improve information sharing for channelising funds into the sector. Located in Sydney, the Hub will contribute to developing a knowledge-sharing platform and network between governments, the private sector, development banks and other international

Patna, Nov 16: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) will use all its resources and energy to construct a grand Ram temple at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh, its leader Pravin Togadia said Sunday. "The VHP will use its full resources and energy to construct a Ram temple at Ayodhya," Togadia told the media here. He said the Ram temple was the VHP's main agenda. "The VHP has never forgotten the agenda of Ram

Mumbai, Nov 16: Apprehending an uncertain future for the company, some 40-odd SpiceJet pilots including commanders have quit the airline during the past six months, say sources. The airline auditors in their recent report have cast doubts over the ability of media baron Kalanithi Maran’s budget carrier to run it as a “going concern”. The airline has reported 5th straight quarter of net losses for

London, Nov 16: Health woes have kept Farooq Abdullah far away from home but the three-term Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir says that his bigger worry today is BJP's "sinister" plan to abrogate the state's special status which will lead to "massive unrest". For the first time in nearly four decades, the 77-year-old President of the ruling National Conference, who is in the UK for the last

Brisbane, Nov 16: As India makes attempts to recover black money from abroad, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked every country, especially tax havens, to provide information for tax purposes in accordance with treaty obligations. Raising the pitch on the black money issue, Modi in his intervention at the summit of the Group of 20 industrialised and major emerging economies called for close

Brisbane, Nov 15: President Barack Obama challenged Asia Pacific nations to choose between "conflict or cooperation," singling out North Korea's rogue nuclear program and China's tense territorial disputes with its neighbours as matters that could threaten progress in the fast-growing region. "The question we face is which of these futures will define the Asia Pacific in the century to come,"

Chhattisgarh, Nov 15: Tablets linked to the deaths of more than a dozen women who visited a sterilisation camp in Chhattisgarh are likely to have contained a chemical compound commonly used in rat poison, two senior state officials said on Saturday. Preliminary tests of the antibiotic ciprocin tablets were found to contain zinc phosphide, Siddhartha Pardeshi, the chief administrator for the

Brisbane, Nov 15: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday unequivocally said that repatriation of black money kept abroad is a "priority" for his government, as he sought close global coordination to achieve this objective. Raising the black money issue at an informal meeting of leaders of the five-nation BRICS bloc, Modi set the tone on this key issue ahead of the G20 summit in the wake of his