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Maha Govt to Allow Online RTI Queries fr...

Maha Govt to Allow Online RTI Queries from New Year

From Murtuza Merchant Mumbai, Dec 24 (PTI) From the new year, people in Maharashtra will be able to seek information under RTI Act online. Aiming to simplify the process of filing Right to Information (RTI) queries and usher in transparency in the system, the Devendra Fadnavis government has... read more »

Assam violence: Death toll in Bodo milit...

Assam violence: Death toll in Bodo militant attack rises to 64

As many as 64 people have died in Tuesday’s attacks by Bodo tribal militants on mostly Christian adivasis along Assam’s border with Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh, officials said. Police said the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Songbijit) faction carried out the attacks in... read more »

Coal India, GAIL to invest Rs 9000 cr in...

Coal India, GAIL to invest Rs 9000 cr in Talcher plant

Coal India Ltd, the world’s largest producer, and state gas utiltity GAIL India Ltd today signed agreements to invest Rs 9,000 crore in a plant to convert coal into gas and use this fuel to manufacture fertiliser. CIL and GAIL along with Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers (RCF) and... read more »

You can hand in pre-2005 notes till June...

You can hand in pre-2005 notes till June: RBI

MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India has extended the deadline for turning in pre-2005 currency notes to June 30, 2015. Earlier, all citizens had to turn them in by this month-end. The most visible difference between the old and new notes is that the latter carry the year of printing. As part of its... read more »

India win gold, silver in World Team Billiards

It was a win-win situation for India on the occasion of Independence Day as the Pankaj Advani-led India B secured a gold while India A bagged a silver in the inaugural World Billiards Team... read more »

Injured Watson out of Zimbabwe tour

Australian all-rounder Shane Watson has been withdrawn from the cricket tour of Zimbabwe due to a sprained ankle after stepping on a ball during training in Brisbane Saturday. The National... read more »

Cabinet approves inquiry into Gujarat snooping

BJP Prez Amit Shah unveils new team: Varun Gandhi out, Yeddyurappa in

Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah announced a new team of 11 vice-presidents and eight general secretaries to lead the party into the coming Assembly elections. Assembly elections... read more »

Did Russia and Ukraine just start a war? What we know and don’t know

On Friday, as a Russian “aid convoy” of 280 trucks neared the Ukrainian border, NATO said that a separate “incursion” of Russian military forces had crossed into... read more »

Chavan launches ‘Majhi Mumbai-Nirmal Mumbai’ drive

MUMBAI: Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Friday launched a cleanliness drive called “Majhi Mumbai-Nirmal Mumbai” which aims to create awareness among people. “There... read more »