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RBI warns of rising tide of NPAs
RBI policy: Raghuram Rajan holds rate bu...

RBI policy: Raghuram Rajan holds rate but sends out a strong message to ban...

For a change, there wasn’t any surprise in the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) first bi-monthly policy of fiscal year 2016. The status-quo in the repo rate and cash reserve ratio (CRR) were maintained at 7.5 percent and 4 percent, respectively. Repo rate is the rate at which banks get money form... read more »

‘Over 3000 Indian nationals rescued from...

‘Over 3000 Indian nationals rescued from Yemen’: S.U. Singh

Djibouti, Apr. 7 (ANI): Minister of State for External Affairs General (retired) S.R. Singh has stated that over 3,000 Indian nationals have been introduced again residence from strife-hit Yemen until now. “We try our greatest to evacuate as many individuals as potential and as quickly as... read more »

Beef ban in Maharshtra won’t exten...

Beef ban in Maharshtra won’t extend to goats, clarifies Advocate Gene...

Mumbai: A day after the Bombay High Court, while hearing a slew of petitions against the beef ban, asked the government to explain why the ban only extends to the slaughter of cows and bulls, attorney general Sunil Manohar has clarified that he never suggested extending the ban to include goats or... read more »

Delhi’s Most Wanted Gangster, Neer...

Delhi’s Most Wanted Gangster, Neeraj Bawana, Arrested

NEW DELHI: Delhi’s most wanted gangster Neeraj Bawana, who has dozens of cases of murder, attempt to murder and extortion against him, was arrested in the wee hours today by the Special Cell of Delhi Police. Police forces of several states were on the look out for him. Special Commissioner... read more »

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Sis Ram Ola to be cremated with full state honours in Rajasthan today

Sis Ram Ola to be cremated with full state honours in Rajasthan t...

New Delhi – The mortal remains of Sis Ram Ola will be consigned to flames with full state honours at his native village, Ardawata in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan this afternoon. The 86-year-old... read more »

Path clear for President's Rule in Delhi?

Path clear for President’s Rule in Delhi?

New Delhi – Delhi seems to be heading towards President’s Rule as it faces political deadlock and subsequent re-election in May. With the... read more »

Tejpal case: Police probe into Lekhi Twitter leak begin...

Tejpal case: Police probe into Lekhi Twitter leak begins

Panaji – Goa Police have started a preliminary investigation against Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi, accused of leaking the Tejpal... read more »

EC tells states to prepare flawless electoral rolls

EC tells states to prepare flawless electoral rolls

New Delhi – In view of the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commission (EC) has asked the states and the union territories to prepare error-free... read more »

Ganguly case exposes political divide in West Bengal

Ganguly faces heat after intern's affidavit made public

By Sirshendu Panth Kolkata – The allegation of sexual assault levelled against retired Supreme Court judge A.K. Ganguly by a law intern has yet again... read more »

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Income inequality 'defining challenge' for US: Obama

Income inequality ‘defining challenge’ for US: Obama

Washington – President Barack Obama Wednesday said incom! e inequality is the “defining challenge” for the US while a growing middle class is the engine of the country’s... read more »

Kerry visits Israel amid reports of faltering Israeli-Palestinian talks

Kerry visits Israel amid reports of faltering Isra...

Jerusalem – Amid reports of Israeli-Palestinian talks losing momentum, US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Israel late Wednesday. Kerry... read more »

Putin favours amnesty proposal for inmates

Putin favours amnesty proposal for inmates

Moscow – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that a proposal about giving amnesty to inmates on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of... read more »

UN Security Council condemns slams attacks on aid worke...

UN Security Council extends sanctions on Liberia

United Nations – The ! UN Security Council (UNSC) has strongly condemned deadly attacks in two Afghan provinces last week which led to the death of nine... read more »

Petition questioning Musharraf’s trial rejected

Petition questioning Musharraf's trial rejected

Islamabad – The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has rejected a ! petition challenging the constitution of a special court for the treason trial of former... read more »

Charlie Hebdo: Why Pope Francis’s friendly ‘punch’ needs a counter

Pope Francis, widely acknowledged as one of the most progressive popes in recent times, appears to have joined the “condemn, but” brigade in the context of the Charlie Hebdo... read more »

Belgium terror arrests: Cops launch more overnight raids in hunt for ‘Jihadi cells&#...

The operations come after two suspected Islamists were killed and a third arrested during a gun battle with cops in the Belgian town of Verviers yesterday Cops in Belgium have launched... read more »

Another threat message scribbled in Mumbai airport toilet wall

A threat message warning of an Islamic State (ISIS) attack on Republic Day was spotted on a toilet wall in Mumbai airport on Friday, nine days after a similar message. Central Industrial... read more »

Kiran Bedi's vote is for Narendra Modi, not Arvind Kejriwal

BJP has a visionary leadership, can give strong, experienced govt in Delhi: Kiran Bedi

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kiran Bedi, who joined the party on Thursday, today said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership inspired her to join politics... read more »

Dhanush gears up for two releases in February

Dhanush will have two back-to-back releases next month as his films Anegan and Shamitabh will hit the marquee within the span of a week. While Dhanush’s Tamil romantic-drama Anegan, which is... read more »