India

New Delhi, Aug 6: Plans by the government to allow more foreign investment in the country's still-small insurance sector has hit snags in parliament, testing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign promise to push through reforms to revive the economy. Over the past week, the government has twice sought to introduce legislation in the upper house of parliament permitting 49 percent foreign

New Delhi, Aug 6: An Air India plane took off for Tunisia on Wednesday to bring back about 200 Indians struck in strife-torn Libya. A Boeing 777-LR is flying to Djerba to bring back these passengers. It will be an eight-hour long flight and will return tomorrow morning carrying the stranded Indians. Air India has been sending special flights to war-torn areas of Iraq and Libya regularly.

New Delhi, Aug 5: The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to take a decision on dissolution of Delhi Assembly "one way or another" within five weeks, questioning it for continuing to keep the house in suspended animation when no party is coming forward to form the government. "One party says it does not want to form government. Other says it cannot. Third party has no strength. In a situation

New Delhi, August 5: The Opposition on Tuesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not being sufficiently effusive in extending greetings to the nation on the festival of Eid, even as he has visited temples across the country, more recently the Pashupatinath Temple in Nepal on Monday. While TMC raised the issue of the PM not extending greetings on EId, the Congress was upset over the

New Delhi, Aug 5: Scores of UPSC aspirants today continued their protest demanding scrapping of CSAT, a day after the government announced that English marks in the test will not be included for gradation or merit in the civil services preliminary examination. The aspirants, who had been protesting against the CSAT format in Mukherjee Nagar of north Delhi for the past 26 days, have now shifted

New Delhi, Aug 5: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today rejected BJP's charge that the party is doing a 'U-turn' on the Insurance Bill, saying that there are "no double standards" by it on the issue. "I think, there are no double standards on the Insurance Bill by the Congress," Gandhi told reporters in Parliament House. The opposition party has kept the government guessing on the crucial

New Delhi, Aug 5: There have been 30 accidents involving helicopters and other aircraft in which a total of 52 people were killed since 2011. While 11 accidents were reported in 2011, there were nine in 2012, eight in 2013 and two so far this year, Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju said in reply to a query in Lok Sabha, adding that there were 52 fatalities in ten of these accidents. In

New Delhi, Aug 5: Chief Justice of India R M Lodha on Monday promised to look into the complaint of a woman judge, who quit as additional district and sessions judge of Gwalior, levelling sexual harassment charges against a sitting judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. The woman judge accused the administrative judge of the HC of demanding sexual favours. She alleged that he wanted her to “dance

New Delhi, Aug 4: English marks in CSAT-II will not be included for gradation or merit and 2011 candidates may get a second chance to appear for the test next year, government announced in Lok Sabha today seeking to defuse the UPSC row that has seen the aspirants on warpath. "Government is of the opinion that in the Civil Services Preliminary examination, Paper-II, the marks of the question

New Delhi, Aug 4: India today strongly condemned the "derogatory" article against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa appearing in the Sri Lankan Defence Ministry website, as the controversy rocked Parliament with an agitated AIADMK demanding a resolution to denounce it. "The issue raised by (AIADMK leader) V Maitreyan is indeed very serious. India strongly condemns it. We will definitely